Is there African Literature? : Wole Soyinka and Cambridge in the 60s

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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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Nov 11, 2019, 2:58:38 AM11/11/19
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As an African writer newly arrived in Cambridge on a fellowship, I was placed in the anthropology dept.

Why?

 It was believed there is no such mythical beast as African literature.

Eventual Nobel Prize for Literature winner Wole Soyinka on an experience of decades ago.

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A young Soyinka
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