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Peter Vakunta’s ‘Indigenization of Language in the African Francophone Novel: A New Literary Canon’ revisits the age-old question of the language of African literature, with, as the title suggests, the Francophone novel as its centerpiece.

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As a gift to the world View from somewhere speaks from a place of passion with songs that sound neither like a labour of love nor a hard day’s work. ‘I’m just lucky to be able to get up every day and do what I love’, says Amira Kheir.

In the identity of the Caribbean and their diasporas is a deep, transcendent and vital cultural footprint of the peoples of the African continent.

mostly, they gather at places that are free.

they gather at places where they may have to buy a cup of coffee or a piece of cake, but then they might bring out some fruits picked from a garden. someone has potpourri.

Unlike some of his unimaginative peers who collect African folklore in order to imprison it, thus delimiting its potential implacability to literary thought, Harold Scheub takes cognizance of the fact that the import of collection is to make possible interpretation, which expands on the possibili

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