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Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go

Phiri, Aretha. 2020. Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go. In James Hodapp (Ed.), Afropolitan Literature as World Literature (1st ed.). Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/afropolitan-literature-as-world-literature-9781501342608/

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