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Now showing — African Language · 5 works

  • Black Girl Film · 1960s

    A young Senegalese woman works as a maid in France. Colonialism, identity, and dehumanization.

    IdentityAfter-hoursLonging
  • Disgrace Books · 1990s

    A professor's fall from grace in post-apartheid South Africa. Power, shame, and transformation.

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • So Long a Letter Books · 1970s

    A woman writes to her friend after her husband takes a second wife. Feminism in Senegalese Islam.

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • A magistrate on the frontier confronts the Empire's brutality. Colonialism as moral parable.

    After-hoursMemoryMigration
  • Amassakoul Music · 2000s

    Tuareg desert rock. Electric guitars in the Sahara, rebellion and exile encoded in rhythm and sand.

    MigrationResistanceAfter-hours
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  • The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Music
  • Soro Music
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  • Decolonising the Mind Essays
Cultural geography
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  • Waiting for the Barbarians Books
  • Black Girl Film