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Getting to know Jacob Zuma
It looks like we’re all going to get to know Jacob Zuma pretty well over the next five (or ten or more?) years, now that his court troubles are over and his path to the South African presidency is clear. Who is he? Here are some answers.
Ngugi has done it again
Ngugi wa Thiongo’s new book “Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance” (2009) is a fantastic read, which summarizes and updates some of the arguments that Ngugi first developed in “Decolonizing the Mind” back in 1982. Ngugi’s thesis that an intellectual and cultural renaissance is only possible in Africa is Africans speak, write, read, think, [...]
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