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Obama shows off the glamour of DC, while Gordon Brown offers visiting Sarkozy has the beauty of Versailles, world leaders ... Canning Town ; As global premiers prepare to assemble for the G20 summit at a bleak east London wasteland, we pick some highlights around the ExCel conference centre [Edition 2]
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NEXT week, Barack Obama and the leaders of the planet's most
powerful economies will attend the G20 summit at the vast ExCel
conference centre. Their mission is to find a solution to the global
financial crisis. It will be hard work but there will doubtless be
time for the Obamas, the Sarkozys and the Browns (OK maybe not the
Browns) to enjoy themselves.
Yet the ExCel centre sits east of Canary Wharf in sunless Canning
Town, an area of the capital so grim that parcel delivery firm DHL
once refused to go there -- while happily venturing into Baghdad.
It's also notorious for poor health. Every ...
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Obituary: Amos Tutuola
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Amos Tutuola was not the first African novelist in...Desmond Tutu's. There is no doubt that Amos Tutuola has made as great a contribution to the story of modern Africa. Alastair Niven Amos Tutuola, writer: born Abeo-kuta, Nigeria...
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Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: orality and history in the work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri.(Review)
Magazine article from: Africa
; ...QUAYSON, Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: orality and history in the work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri. Oxford: James Currey, 1997, 180 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 544...
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Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Journal of Asian and African Studies
; ...Johnson to Ben Okri through Funguwa, Tutuola and Soyinka. He inscribes his study within...distinction between literacy and orality. Tutuola's contribution to the strategic transformation...digressions common to the tale. Nevertheless, Tutuola could not eclipse Funguwa in a decade...
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Zazie dans la brousse (1).(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review
; ...convergence entre le roman d'Amos Tutuola traduit par Queneau, L'Ivrogne...traduction de l'original d'Amos Tutuola, paru en 1952, The Palm Wine...C'est le premier roman d'Amos Tutuola, celui qui fait sa celebrite...
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Journeys, High Jinks & Jests in West Africa; Two Novels: One Magical, One Marginal
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...PAUPER, BRAWLER AND SLANDERER By Amos Tutuola Faber and Faber. 156 pp. $15...1952 when the Nigerian storyteller Amos Tutuola published "The Palm-Wine Drinkard...students who were convinced that Amos Tutuola was so addicted to palm-wine...
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Comparative Approaches to African Literatures.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; ...South African writers. The former contains four essays dealing mainly with D. O. Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola, and Wole Soyinka. In the essay "Amos Tutuola and D. O. Fagunwa" Lindfors, seeking to assess Tutuola's debt to Fagunwa within the context...
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The Ordeal Of The African Writer
Magazine article from: African Studies Review
; ...Larson begins with a discussion of Amos Tutuola, author of The Palm-Wine Drinkard...it, and that is what catapulted Amos Tutuola onto the stage of world literature...confusion surrounding someone like Amos Tutuola and The Palm-Wine Drinkard...
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FINDING STORY SOURCE IN YORUBA FOLKLORE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; PAUPER, BRAWLER AND SLANDERER, by Amos Tutuola. Faber and Faber. 156 pp. $15.95 ($6.95, paperback). The prose of the Nigerian novelist, Amos Tutuola, profits from sources of myth and magic unavailable...
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The Blind Men and the Elephant and Other Essays in Biographical Criticism.(Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; ...the writers he is dealing with. Note how he opens "Amos Tutuola's Search for a Publisher": "The story of Amos Tutuola's surprising rise to literary fame has been told so...
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"1 + 1 = 3" and other dilemmas: reading vertigo in Invisible Man, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and Song of Solomon.
Magazine article from: African American Review
; ...of Solomon (1977) asserts that Amos Tutuola's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts...anxiety, as in both Ellison and Tutuola. Morrison participates in these...is an element in Ellison's and Tutuola's work that for Morrison becomes...
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