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The Avoidance Word Still Screams Its Name: An address to the "50th Anniversary of the 1st International Congress of Black Writers and Artists," in Paris, on September 19, 2006
- Transition
- Indiana University Press
- Issue 97 (Volume 13, Number 3), 2007
- pp. 8-17
- Article
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Half a century ago, the more optimistic poet-militants of decolonization imagined the world's races humanely detonated, then shuffl ed and reassembled into a hybrid creature of the universal. On one issue at least, today's African Union, Arab League, and U.N. have indeed become one: one monstrous chimera ready and willing to let Darfur be cleansed of Africa. Wole Soyinka has some words to say about this—well, actually, just one.