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Understanding Somalia’s conflict can perhaps seem like quite an arduous task.

The Caine Prize has a new winner. From the press release at the Caine website:

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The Fifa World Cup cost South Africa about R120-billion. We will be coughing up at least R100-million annually to service the stadiums, our beautiful cathedrals of self-enslavement.

AFRICAN WRITING: In your ‘day job’, you teach in a Canadian University, but you are also a widely-published commentator on Africana. You don’t believe in the need for distance in the practice of academia, then?

Being black and being human is the leitmotif that runs through Aimé Césaire’s theatre.

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