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With over 200 publications to his name, his three most recent books give a sense of why he is so famous as a historian.
The new novel by Nigerian icon Wole Soyinka is at once satire, political thriller and tragedy. It is the work of a great writer that marks the destruction of postcolonial reason.
Western critics hailed the 1952 book as a great work of African fantasy. In fact it’s better understood as a pioneering work of African science fiction.
Despite same-sex relations being criminal, social media is a space to come out and speak back to homophobia for the Nigerian tweeters in the study.
With humility that belied his global stature, his laugh came easily, and his generous storytelling taught lessons that his students grew into for many years after he shared them.
Obioma’s novel struggles to get going, then splutters and stalls to an unimpressive conclusion.
Framing younger writers’ work within the footsteps of giants is always fraught with risk; the risk of shadowing the merits and faults of the former in an attempt to assess the legacy of the latter.
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Tutor in West African Literature, University of Oxford
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Lecturer, Federal University, Oye Ekiti
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town
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PhD candidate, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Modern Literature, University of York
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Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
