Tipped to win Nobel literature prize, Kenya's Ngugi misses out -- again: Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong'o shows his newly released book "Wizard of the Crow" during launch at a Nairobi bookshop. Antony Njuguna/ReutersKenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o was the bookies’ favourite for the second year to win the Nobel prize in literature. But singer songwriter Bob Dylan … [Read more...] about Tipped to win Nobel literature prize, Kenya’s Ngugi misses out — again | The Conversation
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Literature by Africans in the diaspora can help create alternative narratives | The Conversation
Literature by Africans in the diaspora can help create alternative narratives: ShutterstockCelebrated Ghanaian writer and academic Ama Ata Aidoo has no time for “Afropolitans”. This is a notion popularised by the self-described “multi-local” author Taiye Selasi. Afropolitans are a current, cosmopolitan generation of “Africans of the world”. But … [Read more...] about Literature by Africans in the diaspora can help create alternative narratives | The Conversation
