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14th POETRY AFRICA

International Poetry Festival

Durban, South Africa : 4 – 9 October 2010

Tour : Cape Town ICC, 26 September/ Zimbabwe: Harare : Manneberg and Book Café 28 & 29 September/

Malawi: Blantyre Arts Festival 1 October

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Gijsbert Oonk, the author, starts the book with an insert of a family tree. This becomes a very necessary tool for readers as we weave through the journey of the prominent Karimjee Jeevanji family on the east coast of Africa.

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So the World Cup is finally over – the memory of the final game now forever linked with East Africa with the grisly bombings in Uganda that resulted in 76 deaths.

Our hearts go out to the families of those murdered and injured in the bombings.

With the efficiency of a certain British advertising campaign, Camilla Toulmin’s ‘Climate change in Africa’ does ‘exactly what it says on the tin’.

20th July 2010

To the Editor,