[pix9]

The focus on the book forum is always on fiction, what about critical writings? has anybody read any of these thinkers on African issues? or any other serious black intellectuals?



Insist on your right to go off on a tangent ( Dambudzo Marechera 1978)

[Dee Dee]

Taban Lo Liyong is just super on HIS BOOKS ESPECIALLY THE CULTURE OF RUTAN WAWAWA! I KEEP REREADING IT....

[pix9]

Haven't read that one, though ive read his short stories- the ones in 'the last word' and that other short-story in the ka-anthology; lexicographicide. What is he about in this book?



Insist on your right to go off on a tangent ( Dambudzo Marechera 1978)

[mimie]

Mamdani seems to me a serious person to read when you want enlightenm,ent on African issues, neh? I read sth by him on refugee issues. that's how i knew.

[mimie]

Achille Mbembe is a perfectly good read. what he does is provoke thought, and this is an ability that most theorists do not have.

[Socks]

Mr. Guest. Are you based in kenya/Africa??? I ask because if you are, you might not completely identify with Fanon's stance. However, being in the west for some time, that book totally knocked me off my feet. I started to understand why i and other africans around me were behaving strangely/differently. That book was a total eye openner.

>I have read Frantz Fanon's Black skins white masks...or
>should i say TRIED to read it.
>His work is to me too in accesible at times. It's one of those
>books that reads like a series of non-sequitors..you know ..a
>book that read as a book is difficult to make sense of but if
>passages are taken out of context and read individually ..make
>sense and are even rousing and inspiring if you are a black
>person.
>He was a trained Psychiatrist and i think that he can get
>obscure and the fact that his books are translations from
>French doesn't help.
>
>Otherwise i haven't read the other two.
>
>on a tangent........... someone please tell me where i can get
>an Alamin Mazrui book in stato...
>Thanx