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Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing

By Mark Reynolds

Perhaps the strongest theme here is that there’s no singular “voice of Africa”, no overarching cosmology to unify the continent’s literature -- and that’s a great thing. [25 June 2009]

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