![]() Black African novelists are often sorely under represented in literary criticism and lists of this kind. “It’s an excellent example of black African writing in English of which I felt your list was sadly lacking. Set in the advent of colonialism and its implications for the native people, the clash of cultures of two different worlds.A story of how a way of life was replaced by another culture.” Kinnie Hindowah “This book is a seminal piece of great story telling. “Brilliant, distinctive, thought-provoking and illuminating of a sense of place and time. Its inventive idiomatic prose highlights the malleability of the English language: no other writer (or translator) has evoked the true essence of another language in English. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
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