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African authors – writing for the world - New African Magazine


African authors – writing for the world
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Gail Collins outlines the growth of African literature, from the 18th century to modern times.
In 1761, a small child, Phillis Wheatley (as renamed by the family she worked for) was captured and taken from her home in West Africa to Boston in the US. Fortunately, she landed in the arms of a benevolent family who taught her to read and write but they would have been totally unaware that this would lead her to become the first African to have work published in the UK and US with her collection of poetry –
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral – in 1773. ....

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