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Granta 92: The View from Africa

Africa is too large and diverse for generalizations. It has fifty-four nations, five time zones, at least seven climates, more than 800 million people and, according to the latest diligent research, maybe fourteen million proverbs. South Africa and Burkina Faso have as much in common as Spain and Uzbekistan. And yet people do generalize; Africa has become the continent of moral concern.

This issue of Granta contains fresh voices from Africa, in all their differences, as well as memoir and reportage which reflect the past and present of its people.

In this issue:

John Ryle: Introduction: The Many Voices of Africa

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Master

Moses Isegawa: The War of the Ears

Kwame Dawes: Passport Control

Segun Afolabi: Gifted

Binyavanga Wainaina: How to write about Africa

Geert van Kesteren: The Ogiek

Ivan Vladislavic: Joburg

Adewale Maja-Pearce: Legacies

Nadine Gordimer: Beethoven Was One Sixteenth Black

Helon Habila: The Witch’s Dog

Daniel Bergner: Policeman to the World

Santu Mofokeng: The Black Albums

Lindsey Hilsum: We Love China

John Biguenet: Antediluvian

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 256
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781929001224
  • Genres
  • africa, fiction, literature, essays, photography, travel
  • Release date
  • 2006