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Boundaries of empathy and identity: Olufemi Terry On Cape Town and Coetzee's long shadow

Boundaries of empathy and identity: Olufemi Terry On Cape Town and Coetzee's long shadow

n February 2008, a few days before I began my MA in creative writing, an administrator in University of Cape …

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What Mbappé, Olise and Yamal can’t fix

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By Olufemi Terry, Alex Hochuli, Brahim El Guabli
| Africa Is a Country
If Spain and France meet in the final of the 2026 World Cup, as the bookies predict, three of the brightest talents currently playing the game will take the field, all sharing a quality entirely unrelated to footballing skills. Kylian Mbappé, Michael Olise, and Lamine Yamal are all of mixed Maghrebi and Black African descent.
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The sound of revolt

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By Nelson Freitas, Olufemi Terry
| Africa Is a Country
“What strength is that?” asked Sérgio Godinho, one of the most important Portuguese singer-songwriters, in 1972, when Portugal was still submerged in the long night of fascism — dragging out the agony of its colonial system, condemning people to an unjust war, and spreading the carnage in massacres like the one that took place that year in Wiriyamu, Mozambique.
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