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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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