Word: africanizing
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From the moment that he entered the room, the audience fell silent in deference to a man whom many deem the face of African literature for the past half-century...
...will be celebrating with you the 50 years of the arrival of African Literature. I will do that celebration through poetry, not prose,” he said...
Achebe read nine of his poems that explored African culture and history, with a focus on his Igbo heritage. He wove together vignettes from his various works of a mother in a refugee camp, Christmas in Biafora, and vultures picking at carcasses...
...Achebe event, titled “From the Kingdom of Childhood,” was the sixth annual lecture for the Committee on African Studies, arranged in conjunction with the W.E.B. DuBois Institute and the Department for African and African American Studies...
...sincere congratulations to the American people. I look forward to Obama guiding America back to its rightful place as a respected superpower. However, the fact that Obama is an African American is irrelevant. He was elected (I hope) because of his abilities - he is a clear thinker who will do what is required to resolve the ills that bedevil the U.S. To focus on his race demeans him and detracts from why he was elected. He is America's new leader and his race has nothing to do with it. I understand why Kenyans are rejoicing, but as Americans...