March 2005 Newsletter - African Review of Books

Cape Town will host an international book fair from 2006 in partnership with the Frankfurt Book Fair. This powerful partnership will have implications for the longer-established Zimbabwe International Book Fair which is having a difficult time due to the economic and political conditions of that country. We take a look at what Cape Town's fair will mean for Harare's.

Two prizes have been announced: The regional winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and South Africa's EU literary award. The first goes to Boy, from Mauritius, and the second to Ishtiyaq Shukri for The Silent Minaret.
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Latest Reviews
- A masterpiece of magicalism from Angola, The Genealogy Salesman by Jose Eduardo Agualusa;
- a collection of Isicamtho poetry, South Africa's language of the townships, but understandable to all;
- anthology of 'Post-Traumatic' stories from South Africa, including a range of exciting young writers;
- an essay by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka on the hedonistic pleasures of eating and drinking;
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Africa Must Unite by Kwame Nkrumah £4.00
Class Struggle in Africa by Kwame Nkrumah £4.00
Kwame Nkrumah by June Milne £6.00 (hardback)
Eduardo Mondlane (a biography) £4.50
Rhodesia File by Kwame Nkrumah £4.00
Algerian Civil War 1990-1998 £5.50
Hair in African Art and Culture (hardback illustrated coffee-table book) £9.99
Controlling Anger (study of social control and male identity in post-colonial Uganda) £4.00
Revealing Prophets (Prophets and prophecies in East Africa) £4.00
Where Other Wavered by Sam Nujoma (autobiography) £7.50 (hardback)

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