The power in Gurnah’s writing lies in his ability to complicate the Manichean divisions of enemies and friends.
Rawlings was a polarising figure, a person who led two coups in Ghana before twice being elected president in multiparty polls.
The optimism Angolan president João Lourenço’s election generated four years ago has dwindled as electoral promise after another have failed to materialise.
With vinyl records, zines and political posters instead of just books, The Library of Things We Forgot to Remember offers a way to reimagine African history.
Perceptions of marriage abduction as a recent phenomenon hide the violence that has been done to women as part of culture.
