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I absoluty agree with the comments on the choice of
Africa's best hundred books. It is obvious something
has to be rethought in this very good idea. Main
African languages are more to be taken into account.
If this is not done, it is once more globalization =
westernization, including for culture. Scholars have to
correct the stream. Or it would be as if Islandic or
Norwegian novels (some are superb) were not taken into
account because their original language is not a
language of communication ? this attitude is no longer
possible nowadays.
By the way, in the internet list, Cheikh anta Diop is
called a female (and, incidentally, why his title is
only given in English?), and he is exchanged against
Assiah Djebar, who has become a male: a symbol of the
prevalence of European languages and uses, and their
ignorance, or indifference of others ?
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