tradition
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I grew up reading books that felt foreign and dishonest, with characters I could not relate to and whose lives I could not quite emulate. From Hans Christian Andersen to Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton, my young imagination was fed by stories of talking mermaids and child detectives, who outsmarted the police and ate cucumber…
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For a long time, the idea of culture has been central to the average African’s perception of identity, of decency and of belonging. Today, it has essentially boiled down to the general idea that if one does not adhere to the strict and inhibiting ideals of ‘African culture’, then one cannot be a true African,…
By Augustine 