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I was curious to read Abdulrazak Gurnah’s latest novel – his first publication since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. Theft follows Karim, Fauzia, and Badar, who grow up between Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, become friends, and fall in love.
more...Understanding botanical gardens as colonial sites seems particularly difficult: their plant inhabitants present themselves as too innocent, too splendid and too lively to be associated with colonial violence, white appropriation and hegemonic systems of knowledge production.
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