Tag: Africa
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Things Fall Apart (Achebe 1958)
After reading Ballantyne (1861) I was looking for a book about colonialism from an African perspective. Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe (who was Igbo and grew up in British Colonial Nigeria) is exactly the kind of book I was looking for. The book starts off by drawing you into West African Igbo (or…
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The Gorilla Hunters (Ballantyne 1861)
I just finished reading The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861) by R. M. Ballantyne. It was a sequel to Ballantyne’s The Coral Island (1858), which I had previously read. I want to write about it while the book is fresh in my mind, but this case is more difficult than…