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3:29am May 25, 2014
andotherpoems: mengsuchang: every book on Africa has the same cover.  From the article: But change comes slowly. One day, Mendelsund predicts, there will be a best-selling novel by an African writer that happens to use a different visual aesthetic, and its success will introduce a new set of arbitrary images to represent Africa in Western eyes. “But right now, we’re in the age of the tree,” he says. “For that vast continent, in all its diversity, you get that one fucking tree.” 

andotherpoems:

mengsuchang:

every book on Africa has the same cover. 

From the article:

But change comes slowly. One day, Mendelsund predicts, there will be a best-selling novel by an African writer that happens to use a different visual aesthetic, and its success will introduce a new set of arbitrary images to represent Africa in Western eyes. “But right now, we’re in the age of the tree,” he says. “For that vast continent, in all its diversity, you get that one fucking tree.” 

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    so are any of these books written by Africans?
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    *AHEM* ALMOST ALL of Chinua Achebe’s original cover art for the books are these awesome geometric hand carved style...
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