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Crime fiction is the second most popular literary genre in Africa after romance. A reading of Kenyan author Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ’s Black Star Nairobi reveals how it has disrupted the genre.
African academics draw up a reading list that speaks to the vibrancy of contemporary as well as older African literature.
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Modern Literature, University of York
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Senior Lecturer in Literature, University of Nairobi
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Associate Professor in the Department of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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PhD candidate in Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor of literature, Makerere University
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Professor of Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
