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Helon Habila’s Measuring Time: Africa’s history as narrative
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Finding Odysseus’s Palace: Jane Cochrane’s Odysseus’ Island
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The mind of the child: Nilanjana Haldar’s Quiet Screams to the Quiet Healer
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Tonza D Ruffin: What happens Behind Closed Doors?
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Of flash fictions: Review of Vincent de Paul’s Flashes of Vice: Volume 1
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Literature in the North: A review of Mujahid Ameen Lilo’s City of Smoke
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Juka Fatou Jabang’s The Phoenix: The path to female liberation is via total denigration of men
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Cristina Ali Farah’s Little Mother: Capturing the ripple effects of the Somali Civil War
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Ifrah Monsur: Voice of a refugee artist | #SaturdayReview
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What has Bello not done? A poem by Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy
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Gabriel Awuah Mainoo’s 60 Aces of Haiku
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Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls: A realistic depiction of the Somalia of the 80s
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