Transition : a journal of the arts, culture and society
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DISPATCH - Guyanarama - In the last decades of the 20th century, tiny Guyana hosted an outsized roster of rebels, rogues, and raconteurs, from Pan-Africanist hero Walter Rodney to the homicidal cultmaster Jim Jones. It's a land where calypso is king -- And where Africans and Indians engage in low-intensity race warfare. Achal Prabhala goes down to Georgetown.Prabhala, Achal et al. | 2004
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MEMOIR - Saved by the Bell - Like Paul on his way to Damascus, a young girl crossed the road one day and found herself Born Again. She left her native Somalia behind, only to discover a particularly English circle of Hell. From Hargeisa to Heathrow and on to heathendom, Nimco Mahamud-Hassan makes a great escape.Mahamud-Hassan, Nimco et al. | 2004
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POSITION - How to Be an African - The Sphinx's busted nose ... Jesus's nappy hair ... Angelina Jolie's telltale lips: The hidden wonders of Africa are everywhere and nowhere. From an Afrocentric precinct, Binyavanga Wainaina signifies on an empire of maybes and almost becames.Wainaina, Binyavanga et al. | 2004
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UNDER REVIEW - Honkey Night in Canada - As with hockey, so goes literature: The number of black players (and player-haters) has exploded in recent years, engulfing the National Hockey League in a minor blizzard of blackness. Now a small band of Afro-Canadian literary critics are ready for their turn in the spotlight. Or are they? Peter James Hudson takes one for the team.Hudson, Peter James et al. | 2004
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FICTION - The River Lena - Land of the lost Slovaks.Boldizar, Alexander et al. | 2004
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FICTION - Tambu's Choice - It doesn't look good.Dangarembga, Tsitsi et al. | 2004
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CONVERSATION - Desperately Seeking Tsitsi - Tsitsi Dangarembga is best known as a writer who catapulted into the canon of African literature with Nervous Conditions, her 1989 coming-of-age story about a black girl under colonialism in Rhodesia. (Part of the sequel appears on p. 108.) But her strangest, most ambitious work may well be Mother's Day (Kare Kare Zvako), a movie musical about hunger, motherhood, and a cannibal husband, complete with singing, dancing termite men. Christopher Joon-Hai Lee talks with her about Lars von Trier, Nollywood, and the tasks of African aesthetics.Dangarembga, Tsitsi et al. | 2004
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PORTFOLIO - Textile Skin - "at happens to a seam deferred? Pèpè -- Secondhand clothing from the United States -- Has invaded Haiti. But even as the streets are overrun with cloth, artisans still spin gold from dross. Hanna Rose Shell reports from a land where even the castoffs are tailor-made.Shell, Hanna Rose et al. | 2004