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In Jean-Marie Teno's latest film 'Chosen', Teno recounts his meeting with a woman whose life journey mirrors a generation of Africans: who left Africa one day and are now struggling to find their way back home. Read the Library Highlight!

A local red bus coming out of the Circle Bus station at Accra (Wikimedia Commons, Joris Darlington Quarshie, CC-BY-4.0)On the occasion of the ASCL seminar Subaltern Metropolitan Adventure and Colonial Mediation in Nigeria by Prof. Moses E. Ochonu, that took place on 7 April, the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier on African-authored travel writing. Read the web dossier.

Baltasar Lopes da Silva (Source: http://acl.cv/patronos/patronos/43-lista-patronos/691-21-baltasar-lopes-da-silva)On 28 May 1989, Cape Verdean writer, poet, linguist and lawyer Baltasar Lopes da Silva died in Lisbon at the age of 82. With Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, he was the founder of the literary journal Claridade. Read the Library Weekly!


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