Achebe Discusses Africa 50 Years After 'Things Fall Apart'

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A Summary of Things Fall Apart

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Achebe Discusses Africa 50 Years After 'Things Fall Apart'

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Things Fall Apart

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Toni Morrison On Capturing A Mother's "Compulsion" To Nurture In "Beloved"

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Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American

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Conversation with Toni Morrison

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Who's Got Game?: The Ant or the Grasshopper?, The Lion or the Mouse?, Poppy or the Snake?

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Conflict Of Identity: From The Slave Trade To The Present Day: One Man's Healing in Benin, Africa

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History's Greatest Speeches: Black Voices

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The Madonna of Excelsior

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Patrice Lumumba: The Life and Legacy of the Pan-African Politician Who Became Congo's First Prime Minister

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Invisible Man

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Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature

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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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One Day I Will Write About This Place

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl

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The Stone Virgins

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Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

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The Challenge For Africa

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The Stones of the Village

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Dance of the Jakaranda

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The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi

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Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Aphrodite to Zeus, a Profile of Who's Who in Greek Mythology

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The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

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Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow": A Macat Analysis

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Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

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The Catcher in the Rye

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Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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Common Sense

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Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

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David Sedaris' Diaries Paint a Life Spent in Observation

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The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time

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The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot

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Meet Me in the Margins

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Fahrenheit 451

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The Book Thief

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On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions

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Wuthering Heights (Seasons Edition -- Winter)

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Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Lord of the Flies

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Bad Feminist: Essays

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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

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Summary: Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

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Summary of The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

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Edward E. Baptist, “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” (Basic Books, 2014): An unflinching examination of the trauma, violence, opportunism, and vision that combined to create the empire for slavery that was the Old South, Ed Baptist‘s new book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic ...

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The fall of Kwame Nkrumah: The overthrow of Ghana's famous leader, a heroic African WW2 airman, the ban on landmines

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Wole Soyinka on writing, politics and the power of a novel

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Collier on the Bottom Billion: Paul Collier talks about the ideas in his recent book, The Bottom Billion, an analysis of why the poorest countries in the world fail to grow. He talks about conflict, natural resources, being landlocked, and bad governance, four factors he identifies as causes of the desperate poverty and stagnation in the countries where 1/6 of the world's poorest peoples live.

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Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing

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Ep. 43 – Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks: In our first text-discussion episode in a while (sorry podcast fam!), John is joined by two special guest hosts, his Beloit College colleagues M. Shadee Malaklou (Critical Identity Studies) and Michelle Bumatay (French). We discuss Black Skin, White Masks

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Ep. 57 – Sylvia Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom”: In this episode, James, Shadee, and John settle into unsettling the ongoing colonial project with Sylvia Wynter’s “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation–An Argument.

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The CIA’s secret African missions: Susan Williams discusses the United States’ covert programme to undermine the leaders of newly independent African nations in the 1950s and 1960s.