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‘Joseph was now a tall youth in a neat uniform of khaki shirt and shorts. He held Sembene Ousmane’s novel, God’s Bits of Wood, in his hands but he was not reading much.’
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Notes
Clifford B. Robson, Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Macmillan, 1979) pp. 104–10.
Terry Eagleton, Marxism and Literary Criticism (Methuen, 1976) p. 52.
John Carey, The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens’s Imagination (Faber, 1979) p. 134.
Palmer, The Growth of The African Novel (Heinemann, 1972) p. 303.
See Camara Laye, The Guardian of the Word, trans. James Kirkup (Fontana, 1980) p. 19.
Adrian Roscoe, Uhuru’s Fire: African Literature East to South (Cambridge University Press, 1977) p. 234.
Alex La Guma, Time of the Butcherbird (Heinemann, 1979) p. 106.
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McEwan, N. (1983). Stories, Themes and Impressions in Recent African Fiction. In: Africa and the Novel. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06218-8_4
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