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Buzzworthy: African writing and the Caine Prize | City of Lions
https://cityoflions.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/buzzworthy-african-writing-and-the-caine-prize
African literature and culture. Buzzworthy: African writing and the Caine Prize. The shortlist for the Caine Prize for African Writing. Was announced May 1. This is the first in a series of posts I’ll be doing about the Caine Prize, including reviews of the shortlisted works. Thanks to zunguzungu. For the idea and for organizing this year’s reviewers! And now Chimamanda Adichie. Century ( Leila Aboulela. Were Caine Prize winners. (The list. Which in turn has helped launch the careers of a number of Kenya...
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Moralism and Ambiguity | City of Lions
https://cityoflions.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/moralism-and-ambiguity
African literature and culture. Round 3 of the Caine Prize blogathon and I’m really excited about this one. Read this week’s story here. From II Samuel as a possible example of homosexual love, at which point the interviewer retorts that the devil, as Shakespeare says, sometimes quotes scripture for his purpose. The interview goes on from here but my attention lingered. What does it mean, in the context of a story about homosexuality in Malawi, that the devil can quote scripture for his purpose? In princ...