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From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.
Morojele’s creative career was remarkable. He not only played the jazz changes, but lived and wrote the social and political ones.
A powerful new book restores the writer and feminist politician to her rightful place in history.
Wole Soyinka’s writing has explored the same themes for decades.
A firebrand activist for women’s rights, her novels espoused truths that made her hugely unpopular with the government.
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Associate Professor of History, Director of the Center for African Studies, Stanford University
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Lecturer in African and African Diasporan Literature, University of Lagos
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Research officer, University of Cape Town
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Professor of English and Chair of the English Department, Princeton University
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Professor, Morgan State University