British colonial author Rudyard Kipling, a "darling" among literary collectors in the 1920s, fell out of favor for many years, but now copies of his work are rising in price again.
His Anthology was conceived when the canon was overwhelmingly white and male, but over the years he and his fellow editors opened up to include many women and post-colonial authors such as Salman Rushdie, Chinua Achebe and VS Naipaul.
But when I meet her in London – soon after the Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov is shot dead on the streets of Moscow – she identifies herself as a "post-colonial author".
They lived in what is now the colonial-style Author's Wing, the original part of the hotel above which towers the 10-storey River Wing.
"In the last five decades, just about every post-colonial African author, one way or another, has been engaged in a creative call-and-response with Chinua Achebe," said author Lola Shoneyin.
No apologist for white colonials, the author points out that the much of the holocaust visited on the region in the 20th century has been by Africans upon other Africans.
American literature at first was naturally a colonial literature, by authors who were Englishmen and who thought and wrote as such.
The fiery way in which she spoke, and reading about the anti-colonial struggle from authors such as Chinua Achebe and Ousmane Sembène, made me want to leap out of my seat.
The cylindrical dwelling made of plant material is the 'traditional' hut from the Fazzan region reported also by Italian authors of colonial age.
What fare does the author suggest colonial Southerners typically enjoyed on Christmas?
How was Christmas treated in "New England's colonial days," according to the author, and why? b.
