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How to Write About Africa

Apr 03, 2009 10:45

(In addition to the regular 50 books challenge, I'm going to do 50 short-works, too. Not because I'm an overachiever -- which would be a fair charge -- but because I SUCK at finishing anthologies, yet I still want to point in awe at some of the amazing pieces in said anthologies-I-never-finish-reading. Also, sometimes I run across amazing stuff in ( Read more... )

(delicious), creative nonfic, african writers, kenya, short-works

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annwfyn April 3 2009, 22:12:14 UTC

This is brilliant! Thank you so much for this.

oyceter April 3 2009, 22:51:10 UTC

I love this short piece so much! It and Sherman Alexie's poem on how to write about Native Americans, bwahahaha.

sanguinity April 3 2009, 23:17:02 UTC

How to Write the Great American Indian Novel

In the Great American Indian novel, when it is finally written,
all of the white people will be Indians and all of the Indians will be ghosts.

b_writes April 5 2009, 19:34:06 UTC

I loved that! (Though it says a lot about where I live and who I hang out with that I had to remind myself that most people in the continental US would think eating goat meat was weird and 'exotic.')