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“Literature Can Foster And Express Our Shared Humanity”: Bernardine Evaristo On The Importance Of Inclusive Publishing
The Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other writes exclusively for British Vogue about the unique power of the arts to interrogate universal truths…
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Enjeux de la nouvelle loi criminalisant le viol et la pedophilie au Sénégal : esquisse d’analyse
L’Assemblée nationale du Sénégal a voté le projet de loi criminalisant le viol et la pédophilie, qui a été aussitôt promulgué le 10 janvier…
Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola can Change Our Minds. Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG (pb, £25.00 – 9789956764655), 2017,…
I have heard it repeated, ad nauseam: Covid-19 is the ultimate symbol of globalisation as a homogenising process devoid of all trappings of hierarchies and…
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Writing and sharing human experiences of COVID in East Africa: Call for potential book chapters
Are you experiencing COVID in East Africa and desiring to write and share your reflections? Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group is preparing…
Written 1,000 years ago, the epic story of 11th-Century Japan, The Tale of Genji, was written by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman. 14 August 2019…
The arts scene is booming in the self-declared republic of Somaliland but, as the BBC’s Mary Harper writes, the people who are pushing the…
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Quel rôle pourraient jouer les femmes, dans la prévention et la résolution des crises et conflits armés dans le bassin du lac Tchad
Le Bassin du Lac Tchad s’est distingué, ces dernières années, par une densification de la conflictualité, avec, en première ligne, la guerre menée par…
If one is to credit the hypothetical, then the success of the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho began very much in Africa. This came after…