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	<description>Feeding the African Imagination</description>
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		<title>On Hausa literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carmen McCain gave an excellent talk on hausa fiction last night at an ANA Abuja event. Although she grew up in Jos, she wasn&#8217;t aware until a few years ago of the vast body of popular fiction written in hausa. She is now on the way to becoming an expert in the field, via a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bibi Bakare-Yusuf in today&#8217;s Guardian</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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The online version is here.  There is a mistake in the text.  Reference to ABU, Zaria should in fact be references to OAU, Ife.
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		<title>Teju Cole and Toni Kan talk in Lagos, Saturday 19th December</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lagos is a maximum city, where dreams and nightmares collide to the sound of fuji rhythms, pastorly exhortation and the growls of the generator.
Two of the most exciting contemporary writers on Lagos will discuss West Africa’s megacity and how it is read and written.
Teju Cole is a writer and photographer currently based in Brooklyn. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teju Cole feature in This Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Click here for full size version.
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		<title>In Dependence book cover</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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We spend a lot of time thinking about book covers at Cassava Republic. Its therefore very gratifying to read about other&#8217;s appreciating our efforts, such as here, on the excellent Design Nigeria blog. In Dependence was designed by Lynn Hatzius.
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		<title>Review of Doreen Baingana at Quintessence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Reviews of the recent Lagos reading here (NEXT) and here (The Guardian).
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		<title>Sarah Ladipo Manyika on BBC Radio Nottingham</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting discussion here:

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		<title>Toni Kan wins the NDDC/Ken Saro-Wiwa prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toni Kan, author of Nights of the Creaking Bed published by Cassava Republic Press has won the NDDC/Ken Saro Wiwa literature prize.  The prize was awarded at the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) gala awards night on Saturday 31st October, 2009. Congrats Toni!
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		<title>Sarah Ladipo Manyika reads in Lagos and Abuja</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cassava Republic Press is pleased to announce a new voice in Nigerian literature: Sarah Ladipo Manyika and her debut novel In Dependence. Sarah, a resident of California, is visiting Nigeria this November to promote her book, which will be available nationwide from December.  Sarah spent much of her childhood in Jos, Plateau State, but has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doreen Baingana in Abuja</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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The book reading with Doreen Baingana was lovely this evening.  Don&#8217;t take my word for it, read someone in the audience&#8217;s account here and here to see more photos.
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