In the end, it was all about love.
Musa Okwonga’s book is a captivating journey in three parts. Let the narrator take you with him for a spell; you won’t regret it.
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When the postcolonial meets the post-socialist
After the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, a debate emerged amongst scholars about whether postcolonial studies could provide appropriate tools of analysis for post-socialist or post-Soviet situations and experiences. People voiced different views on the so-called applicability of postcolonial theory and status in the post-Soviet zone.
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Postcolonial literatures and Eurocentrism: Zoe Wicomb’s You can’t get lost in Cape Town
Postcolonial literatures are too often configured as being in some kind of relationship to Europe. Isn’t this just a different kind of Eurocentrism? Zoe Wicomb’s You can’t get lost in Cape Town shows up the inadequacy of a European literary tradition to the stories she wants to tell.
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Europe and the Postcolonial: Visiting the Treptow Museum
The exhibition ZurückGESCHAUT at the Treptow Museum in Berlin distinguishes itself, to my mind, not so much for what it presents as for how it does this. It opened in October 2017 and was the first permanent exhibition to confront Germany’s histories of colonialism, racism and resistance.
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Europe and the Postcolonial: Visiting the ‘Africa Museum’ at Tervuren
In March 2019, I visited the ‘Africa Museum’ at Tervuren just outside of Brussels. It was a deeply strange experience.
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Soul Tourists
Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo’s earlier works are also worth checking out.
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