Books
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The Lost Boys Of Bird Island
THE Lost Boys of Bird Island was withdrawn a week or so ago by its publishers. It is the book…
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NANA ASMA’U
NANA ASMA’U sits in the pantheon, of the great educators of Africa. Taught by female scholars – such as Aisha…
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‘Paper Tiger’ lacks teeth as only details editors’ bitterness and anguish
Five years after the death of Nelson Mandela, the Cape Times did exactly what Alide Dasnois had done the night…
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“Have You Seen Justice?”
Nelson Madiba Mandela is sent back to earth to look for his brother Justice. The two of them had sold…
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We Remember Dr Chancellor Williams
Born in 1898 in Bennettsville, South Carolina. He was an Afrocentric scholar, historian, and author. He attended Howard University and…
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Toni Morrison on the Power of Language
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our…
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Toni Morrison Dies At Age 88
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Toni Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88.…
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: The inspiration to become language warrior for African languages
Here’s the speech by the literary icon, Ntate Ngugi wa Thiongo on winning the Pak Kyongni Prize – A Korean…
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What Is Africa to Me?
A giant of black feminist writing and thought, Maryse Condé was recently awarded the New Academy Prize in Literature, a one-off…
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Let the People See: Emmett Till, and Why They Don’t See
A new book about Emmett Till, Let the People See, [i] aims to explore “not just history but memory”. Elliott J. Gorn says…
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Succeeding While Black
Michelle Obama’s new book reduces racial inequality to a matter of psychological impairment that can be overcome through grit and…
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Chinua Achebe: On the Importance of Storytelling
Nigerian Novelist Chinua Achebe: 13 November 1930 – 21 March 2013. “The storyteller who hears the music of history, weaves the…
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EDUCATING A NATION
Courtesy of http://www.panafricanalliance.com. Editors Note: This article was originally written by United Black America member Ama Dede. Ama Dede aka Deidre…
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Books That Must Be Read But Are Suppressed And Unavailable In SA’s Bookstores
In the late 1980 to the early 1990’s and beyond I read and reviewed some books which are must-read such…
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Friday Black
A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times,…
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THE GATHERING
This morning I had a dream of ubaba uChris Hani. He stood at the edge of the horizon, expectant. A…
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Restoring African History – Seven Amazing African Queens
The great and revered African American historian John Henrik Clarke summed up our efforts, here at UnCensored, of restoring African…
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UnCensored & Real African Books Team Up To Publish African Books
UnCensored and Real African Books have teamed up to establish an entity – Real African Foundation – that will publish…
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Loneliness in Time: Physicist Freeman Dyson on Immigration and How Severing Our Connection to the Past Shallows Our Present and Hollows Our History
By Maria Popova What a disorienting feeling to wake up one hot early-August morning and realize that exactly fifteen early-August…
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We Remember Stephen Goodson – Died 4 August 2018
FORMER Non-Executive Director of South African Reserve Bank and author of “A History of Central Banking & the Enslavement of…
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Two Sobukwe Biographies ReLaunched
TWO rare and under-circulated Sobukwe biographies, ‘Here Is A Tree: The Political Biography of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe’ by Elias Ntloedibe https://www.amazon.com/Here-tree-Political-biography-Mangaliso/dp/9991270027…
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We Remember Frantz Fanon – Born 20 July 1925
Critical Response to Frantz Fanon’s ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ by Musawenkosi Cabe “Frantz Fanon died, leaving us with his…
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When Nkrumah & Sankara Land On My Desk As Gifts
THOSE of us born in January are accustomed to the no-gift birthday. It’s a time when everyone is broke from…
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PROFIT OVER PEOPLE
Rex Seemela has sent in excerpts from several books relating to some of the topics we publish here on UnCensored.…
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