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Nigerian author Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is hailed as one of the greatest novels ever set in Africa. Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters

What a less Eurocentric reading list would look like

Nomalanga Mkhize, Rhodes University; Sarah Pett, SOAS, University of London, and Xolela Mangcu, University of Cape Town

There’s a fierce debate underway about changing university curricula in Africa and the UK to be less Eurocentric. Three academics offer their suggestions for a decolonised reading list.
It’s not that Shakespeare needs to burn out – but it’s time for him to fade away. Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters

It’s time to take the curriculum back from dead white men

Sarah Pett, University of York

When literary studies degrees focus almost entirely on the work of white, male writers, we do our students and the academy a great disservice.

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