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I think it is imperative to explore the limits of the colonial narrative and its dictates because, whether we like it or not, the world that we have inherited was created by that narrative. If we have any hope of moving past it, we have to understand it fully.

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Features & Reviews
Mini-Interviews

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #186: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Allegra Hyde
July 25, 2019

“I love play, I love playfulness, play is fun and extremely serious.”

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Book Club Blog
Features & Reviews
Rumpus Original

The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Tsitsi Dangarembga

The Rumpus Book Club
August 22, 2018

Tsitsi Dangarembga discusses her new novel, THIS MOURNABLE BODY.

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Music
Rumpus Original

The Rumpus Interview with Banning Eyre

Alex Dueben
July 20, 2015

Producer, senior editor, Afropop expert, and author Banning Eyre talks about his new book, Lion Songs, a 15-years-in-the-making biography of Zimbabwe’s legendary musician Thomas Mapfumo.

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