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![]() ![]() Or it is hot and steamy with very short people who eat primates. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. If you must include an African, make sure you get one in Masai or Zulu or Dogon dress. An AK-47, prominent ribs, naked breasts: use these. Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize. ![]() ![]() Note that ‘People’ means Africans who are not black, while ‘The People’ means black Africans. Also useful are words such as ‘Guerrillas’, ‘Timeless’, ‘Primordial’ and ‘Tribal’. Subtitles may include the words ‘Zanzibar’, ‘Masai’, ‘Zulu’, ‘Zambezi’, ‘Congo’, ‘Nile’, ‘Big’, ‘Sky’, ‘Shadow’, ‘Drum’, ‘Sun’ or ‘Bygone’. ![]() This piece can be can be read in full on and in the print issue of the 40th Anniversary Edition of Granta, which publishes on 2 May.Ĭome to our Granta celebration at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival!Īlways use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title. Continuing our celebration of Granta’s 40th anniversary, today we have an extract of a piece from issue 92, originally published in 2006, by acclaimed writer Binyavanga Wainaina. ![]()
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