Transition : a journal of the arts, culture and society
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DISPATCH - The Names of Their Villages - She was raised in America, but her father was Nigerian. When she arrived in Lagos, long-lost relatives danced, strangers acted like old friends, even the television personalities seemed to welcome her home. Nigeria was a dream come true -- She just had to get used to the beatings. Faith Adiele goes back to Africa.Adiele, Faith et al. | 2000
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MEMOIR - Punishments - The sisters of Loreto taught faith, discipline, and submission. But at one convent school in Kenya, the articles of faith were pickled fetuses, mutilated children, morbid nuns. Muhonjia Khaminwa recollects memories of a Catholic girlhood.Khaminwa, Muhonjia et al. | 2000
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POSITION - Men of the Century - They say that history is written by the victors. So who will write the history of Africa's independence generation? Forty years after it all began, it's hard to tell the heroes from the hucksters. Russell Warren Howe -- Political paparazzo, doyen of decolonization, and speechwriter to the stars -- Submits his scorecard.Howe, Russell Warren et al. | 2000
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UNDER REVIEW - Souvenirs - Time was, anthropologists explored the secret life of savages, collecting skulls from skull collectors and calling it primitive art. These days they're rounding up Third World trinkets from backstreet bazaars and calling it postmodernism. Kai Friese charts the progress of "progress."Friese, Kai et al. | 2000
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FICTION - Ouagadougou - Edible insects and mouthwatering Muslims.Dongala, Emmanuel et al. | 2000
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FICTION - The Astrologer - An African dictator consults his horoscope.Isegawa, Moses et al. | 2000
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FICTION - Down by the River - New clothes fresh graves: Haiti.Phipps, Marilene et al. | 2000
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CONVERSATIONS - Tricky Situation - The world's most important African leader has no government to direct, no military to deploy, and no populace to mobilize. In an age of corporate synergy and ethnic slaughter, his only weapon is diplomacy, Henry Louis Gates Jr., talks about power, plutocracy, and peacemaking with Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations.Gates Jr, Henry Louis et al. | 2000
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CONVERSATIONS - Hearts in Exile - There's no place like home -- Or is there? For two Ugandan writers, becoming African meant leaving Africa behind. But even as they succeeded abroad, they found themselves nostalgic for Idi Amin. Novelist Moses Isegawa and political scientist Mahmood Mamdani talk uith Michael C Vazquez about cities, citizens, and the color of Africa.Isegawa, Moses et al. | 2000