Francis Wade

Francis Wade is a journalist covering Myanmar and Southeast Asia. His book, Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim ‘Other’, was published in August 2017. (October 2017)

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the Tyranny of Language

Movements across Africa and elsewhere have advocated a revival of local languages in their countries’ literary output, while translation projects have sought to both expand the non-English audience for African writers, and to “return” African literature to its native soil.

August 6, 2018