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In an undefined neighbourhood of an undefined German town live a boy and a girl. They grow up, experience first love affairs, first disappointments. So far, so conventional – but Karosh Taha’s novel In the Belly of the Queen is not primarily a heterosexual coming-of-age story.
more...Understanding botanical gardens as colonial sites seems particularly difficult: their plant inhabitants present themselves as too innocent, too splendid and too lively to be associated with colonial violence, white appropriation and hegemonic systems of knowledge production.
more...Raj Kamal Jha’s ‘She will build him a City’ narrates complex stories of common people and manages to create a sense of completion through fragmentation.
more...ENGLISH _ Die kenyanische Schriftstellerin Makena Onjerika gewinnt den diesjährigen Caine Prize für afrikanische Literatur. Der Caine Prize ist der vielleicht wichtigste Literaturpreis auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent und mit 10.000 Pfund dotiert. Onjerikas Kurzgeschichte “Fanta Blackcurrent”, für die sie den Preis erhielt, wurde 2017 im Wasafiri magazine veröffentlicht. Die Preisverleihung fand im Senate House in […]
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