And here's our own little Africa Conference - held in a noisy bar just off Oxford Street in London's West End on Friday 8 June. Petina Gappah (Geneva based writer from the Land of Zim); Parselelo Kantai (Kenyan, shortlisted for the 2004 Caine and a contributor to Vanity Fair's July 'Africa' issue) - and myself. Southern, East & West Africa at the table. So here's a record of the 'conference'.
Africa and the Tyranny of the Cult of Mediocrity - Helen Grange
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It is a piercing indictment of African liberation sensibility when, like
some biblical Jews in the long desert to Canaan who demanded that Moses
returns ...
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