Where to begin? 5 postcolonial classics
If you are interested in postcolonial literature but don’t really know where to begin, we put together a list of 5 postcolonial classics for you.
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard
“I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age. I had no other work than to drink palm-wine in my life.” So begins Amos Tutuola’s famed The Palm-Wine Drinkard, which came out in 1952 and is widely feted as the first West African novel in English published internationally.
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