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		<title>My Grandmother &#8211; A Short Story by Andrew Dakalira</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Dakalira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was one thing which really bothered me quite a lot. I was only seventeen years old. I was going to live in this village for a long time, God-willing. Lying on top of a coffin all the way to the graveyard was not going to help my social standing in any way...]]></description>
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		<title>Recognition for Sanya Osha&#8217;s Postethno-philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sanya Osha&#8217;s &#8216;Postethno-philosophy&#8216; received honourable mention at a recent meeting of the New York African Studies Association, NYASA. Published in March 2011 by academic book publisher, Rodopi, the book is available on Amazon.com.]]></description>
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		<title>The Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos, I Loved</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 03:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omohan Ebhodaghe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is much more money here in London and in the business of writing. There are literary participations everywhere. There are constant readings and the giving of lectures in colleges and universities around the world. But it is love above all else that is found in abundance within the ANA Lagos I loved and left behind that matters the most to me....]]></description>
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		<title>A Child-Poet’s Beginning of Silence &#8211; A Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 02:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiedu Ezeanah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m afraid my words might put my family to shame
My enemy is the real me
I fear the person by my right
Wields dagger out of sight...]]></description>
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		<title>When the Balance Is Restored &#8211; by Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 02:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Chukuwuemeka Onyema</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rose took another deep breath and wondered what a world without men would be like. A planet without unthinking, brutal, conscienceless, testerone-driven males? Of course there were exceptions like Adrian but, according to Folake, ‘‘scratch a devil and you get the fungus of hell in all demons.’’ It was probably hyperbolic...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Things Fall Apart&#8217; author Chinua Achebe dies at 82</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, acclaimed in part for his 1958 novel &#8220;Things Fall Apart,&#8221; has died, his British publisher, Penguin Books, said Friday. He was 82. An author of more than 20 books, his honors included the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for Fiction, according to Penguin. He was also accorded his country&#8217;s highest award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ultimate High</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felicia Taave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘’This is the life!’’ Onya piped excitedly. Before her stood a brand new car, on all fours, glistening, rubber and metal wheels! ‘’I’m glad you like it,’’ Mr Bako’s voice reeked of satisfied, condescending pride. ‘’Like it? I LOVE it!’’ Onya circled the car, touching it, obviously fascinated by her good fortune. Who could have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November Leaves</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Msosa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[colorful Petals of glow and of shading snow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[You mean you had to heckle. there was no other way to do this]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[COLORFUL PETALS OF GLOW AND OF SHADING SNOW Colorful Petals of glow and of shading snow Know and show where to let go One step at a time One step at a time One person, one breath At a time One lesson, one test At a time Everything done At a time Everything done In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Review of Sanya Osha&#8217;s &#8216;Dust, Spittle and Wind&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonwabiso Ngcowa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to Katleho Shoro from the Anthropology Department at the University of Cape Town about a workshop that was to be organised where two African authors were coming to speak about their novels. When I left the building I had the book Dust, Spittle and Wind (2011) in my hand. The title of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mirror of Our Times: A Review of ‘The Funeral Did Not End’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Chukuwuemeka Onyema</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TITLE: THE FUNERAL DID NOT END AUTHOR: SYLVA NZE IFEDIGBO PUBLISHERS: DADA BOOKS, LAGOS, NIGERIA PAGES: 299 On my way home from work that rain-moistened afternoon I popped into Debonair Bookstores, Yaba. It was pay day and I was flush with cash. I scanned the shelves and my eyes fell on Ifedigbo’s latest offering. There [...]]]></description>
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