Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West
Mr. Mudimbe was unapologetic. “To the question ‘what is Africa?’ or ‘how to define African cultures?’ one today cannot but ...
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Controversial insider account by former Meta official has strong first-week sales
NEW YORK -- A former Meta official's explosive insider account sold 60,000 copies in its first week and reached the ...
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Percival Everett’s ‘James’ awarded Carnegie Medal for fiction
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's latest honor comes from the country's public libraries. On Sunday, the ...
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In African Publishing, ‘There Is a Renaissance Going On’
One sector that most publishers in Africa say is rapidly growing is children’s books.Lola Shoneyin, a novelist and the publisher ...
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Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported ...
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