GhostStoriesForTheEnd

Africa

Added 2024-01-30 11:32:17 +0000 UTC

Listener Nosreffej shared some interesting links/tips. Here you go:

Wizard of the Crow' by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 2006

"A landmark of postcolonial African literature, Wizard of the Crow is an ambitious, magisterial, comic novel set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria. Ngũgĩ dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for the souls of the Aburirian people, between a megalomaniac dictator and an unemployed young man who embraces the mantle of a magician. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, in this magnificent work of magical realism, Ngũgĩ reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity."

Billy Woods 'History Will Absolve Me' "The classic full-length album from billy woods, the Zimbabwean-Jamaican-by-way-of-Brooklyn rapper, who delivers a fragmentation grenade of an album. An explosive riot of bitter invective, evocative lyricism and daisycutter beats, a solid hour of hardboiled anti-nostalgia"

The Magnificent Cake

https://youtu.be/mEN_uwQG-Wk?feature=shared

"Five narratives set in colonial Africa in the late 19th century tell stories about a troubled king, a middle-aged Pygmy who works in an upscale hotel, a failed businessman who goes on an expedition, a lost porter, and a young army deserter."

Billy Woods 'Aethiopes'

"Never told the truth in your life? Can't start now

Ever so slowly, slowly locked up in your own house"