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"BITTERNESS" By Malama Katulwende
This is one of the
most realistic and passionate contemporary
novels about the life of young people in today's
Africa, written by Malama Katulwende, a Zambian
poet and intellectual. It describes the seeming
incompatibility of old African traditions
and modern life, depicts the political struggle
of Zambia's students, and the hope and despair
of the book's main character, his family,
lover, and friends. Based on real events,
this novel provides an insight into African
history, daily life, and culture, at the example
of an oppressive society. Imagine Europe's
revolts of 1968 in Austral Africa...
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Malama Katulwende (*
1961) - has published poems in the anthology
"Under the African Skies - Poetry from
Zambia" and is currently writing another
novel: "No Other Land". Malama Katulwende
was born in 1967 in the Luapula province of
Zambia. He is the first-born child in a family
of eight. He was educated in Catholic schools
in order to become a Diocesan priest, but later
decided to attend the University of Zambia.
Malama Katulwende has taught science and mathematics
at different schools.
Themes about Negritude
or the Black experience... echo real experiences
of people who have been tied by a common doom
- slavery, racism, colonialism and underdevelopment...
So when we define Africanness as a historical
fact or phenomenon, we're talking about the
African personality as a collective person pitted
against his past, his present and his future.
We're saying: What are we about in relation
to what we have gone through? This is a question
that exacts answers.
Malama Katulwende (in: "Bitterness")
"Malama
Katulwende's literary works display his vivid
connection with our ancestral past, inspire
and evoke feelings of patriotism and the much
needed enthusiasm for the future on a continent
that is facing so many challenges."
Mbuyu Nalumango
Editor of "Under the African Skies - Poetry
from Zambia"
"BITTERNESS"
ISBN: 1-59569-031-X
Mondial, New York, 2005 - 284 pages
US$ 19.95
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