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From: Valdemir Zamparoni, Univ. Federal da Bahia
List Editor: Patrick Wurster <pwurster@rz.uni-osnabrueck.de>
Editor's Subject: AFRICA'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: reply
Author's Subject: AFRICA'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: reply
Date Written: Wed, 6 Mar 2002
Date Posted: Thu, 06 Mar 2002 17:25:53 -0500

               <vzampa@terra.com.br>


Faced with this controversy on the 100 best books, I
will also make an observation that may put in doubt the
seriousness of the list because there are some bigger
mistakes. I will mention just some of them:

a) Mia Couto was, with justice, included among the top
12 but he is male and no female! I think he will laugh
heartily to the knowledge... This mistake was not
committed in the "Creative Writing" chapter where his
name appears again. Less badly.

b) Luandino Vieira was indicated as being a writer of
Mozambique (!) however he is from Angola...

Are there no other mistakes?

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