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CHRIS DUNTON

Bound to engage and enrage

Njabulo Ndebele’s first adult novel <i>The Cry of Winnie Mandela</i> transgresses the borders between fact and fiction, fusing aspects of the novel, biography and essay. It is a…

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CHRIS DUNTON

The great literary divide

<b>REVIEW: </b><i>The Ordeal of the African Writer</i> by Charles Larson (Zed Books)

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CHRIS DUNTON

Courageous man of Cameroon

Within the space of the last few months, Cameroon has lost three of its most prominent authors. First, novelist and musician Francis Bebey, then Mongo Beti, and now, at the age…

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CHRIS DUNTON

Cameroon novelist Beti dies

From Cameroon this week, news of the death of one of Africa’s foremost writers, Mongo Beti (born 1932), writes Chris Dunton.

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CHRIS DUNTON

With many voices

Chris Dunton speaks with Sello Duiker about his second novel, <i>The Quiet Violence of Dreams</i>.

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CHRIS DUNTON

Children of violence

<b>Review:</b> Out of Bounds: Stories of Conflict and Hope by Beverley Naidoo (Penguin)

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