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Out of Africa: The Traps of Safari Journalism

Fatin Abbas
November 13, 2008   |    This article appeared in the December 1, 2008 edition of The Nation.
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Two new books by African writers share many flaws with their Western predecessors.

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Fatin Abbas
Fatin Abbas is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Harvard.

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Fatin Abbas
November 13, 2008   |    This article appeared in the December 1, 2008 edition of The Nation.
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