Adeshina Afolayan (Ibadan): Resignifying the Universal: Critical Commentary on the Postcolonial African Identity and Development. A review of Winds of Change in South Africa (From Apartheid to Freedom) by Raphael Alade. Inside the insular and secretive Eritrea: Ruled by an intolerant autocratic regime, the proud people of Africa’s newest independent state have embraced globalisation amid sealed borders. A review of African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen by Lindiwe Dovey. While most Ethiopians have kept scrupulously silent about the terror they endured under the Derg regime, Hirut Abebe-Jiri has made loud remembrance her life’s work. The fact that the World Cup has finally come to Africa means that Fifa has stepped into a region where the game has all but collapsed under the weight of corruption.

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