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How To Write About Africa

Posted July 3, 2007 · Edward Wilson

This piece is a biting indictment of writing on Africa, in general… It talks about how, somehow, we all now write about African as though it were a single, massive, monolithic entity… a (perennially romanticized) safari whose peoples are either uniformly tall and lanky or short and nappy-headed…

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