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		<title>It&#8217;s good, but&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 06:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Week 4 of the Caine Prize blogathon. This past week (I&#8217;m late) the crew reviewed Melissa Tandiwe Myambo&#8217;s “La Salle de Départ” [pdf].This post is a bit longer than usual (about 1500 words), so if you&#8217;re pressed for time I summarize my argument in the first two and last paragraphs.  Of all the Caine Prize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityoflions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35540347&#038;post=71&#038;subd=cityoflions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moralism and Ambiguity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 21:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Round 3 of the Caine Prize blogathon and I&#8217;m really excited about this one. Read this week&#8217;s story here.   At a crucial point in Stanley Kenani&#8217;s “Love on Trial” there&#8217;s a showdown between the young hero, Charles Chikwanje, and an interviewer from Malawi&#8217;s national TV station. Charles is a reluctant spokesman for gay rights, having [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityoflions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35540347&#038;post=54&#038;subd=cityoflions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zoning In</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Round 2 of the Caine Prize blogathon! Conversation has been much slower than last week – did people relate less to this story? Is it too much to have 19 bloggers giving their thoughts on every short story? In any case I&#8217;ll keep this post much shorter than my last one. Kenyans seem to love [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityoflions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35540347&#038;post=49&#038;subd=cityoflions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Bombay&#8217;s Republic”: Notes on Style and Storytelling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 10:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I&#8217;m really enjoying about this year&#8217;s Caine Prize Blogathon, organized by zunguzungu, is reading everyone&#8217;s summaries of the story. Yes, it&#8217;s kind of the same thing over and over again, but I really learn a lot about where people are coming from – as well as what I&#8217;ve missed about the story – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityoflions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35540347&#038;post=43&#038;subd=cityoflions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cut Off My Tongue</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 05:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great treats of living in Nairobi has been all the live poetry I get to see. The Kenyan poetry scene is a performance scene (ok well at least the part of it that&#8217;s not online) and there are events just about every week. After years of hearing about these events, reading the poetry, and talking to the artists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityoflions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35540347&#038;post=39&#038;subd=cityoflions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buzzworthy: African writing and the Caine Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kosherugali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shortlist for the Caine Prize for African Writing was announced May 1. This is the first in a series of posts I&#8217;ll be doing about the Caine Prize, including reviews of the shortlisted works. Thanks to zunguzungu for the idea and for organizing this year&#8217;s reviewers! African literature doesn&#8217;t have many global-buzz-making events. There&#8217;s a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityoflions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35540347&#038;post=25&#038;subd=cityoflions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Karibuni kwangu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rain is pounding outside the Chai House in downtown Nairobi. I&#8217;m sitting at a long empty counter which circles the cafe&#8217;s atrium, peering down at the darkly polished tables and white teapots. The cafe&#8217;s doors, which run all the way across the entrance, are always thrown open, so that the rain&#8217;s scent pushes up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityoflions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35540347&#038;post=1&#038;subd=cityoflions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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