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al_zorra ([personal profile] al_zorra) wrote in [community profile] readingthepast 2009-06-03 01:09 am (UTC)

Re: Colonial-era Africa

I see what you mean about Just So Stories.

What about Maryse Condé's Segu</> and Children of Segu? (Mali and other parts of West Africa.

The Healers - AyiKwei Armah (Ghana and the Asant Empire mid 1800's)

The African - Harold Courlander (the novel Alex Haley plagerized for parts of Roots

The Dahomeyan - Frank Yerby (who also plagerized for this novel parts of Courlander's African.

Whitethorn - Bryce Courtenay (Boer War)

There are so many set in Southern Africa in particular; for instance Zulu Dawn and Zulu - Cy Endfield, the first is both a novel and a movie.

Love, C.

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