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		<title>This Is Proudly African</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the space of two days, thousands of Africans have risen up and made their voices heard. In Dakar, Senegal, crowds successfully protested against President Wade&#8217;s proposal to amend the constitution to create a monarchy. In the tiny kingdom of Swaziland, a &#8220;fundraising&#8221; concert which was supposed to be given by Jadakiss for the royal family [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pixelstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12621743&amp;post=310&amp;subd=pixelstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re in hell&#8230; but America will save you!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This short post is a largely-unresearched (as yet) kneejerk reaction to Foreign Policy&#8217;s 2011 list of the world&#8217;s failed states. In a photo essay titled Postcards from Hell, journalist Elizabeth Dickinson portrays heart-tugging scenes from Iraq, Iran, Haiti, parts of Asia and (surprise!) much of sub-Saharan Africa &#8211; all of which have made FP&#8217;s list [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pixelstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12621743&amp;post=306&amp;subd=pixelstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Cheating on Zadie Smith</title>
		<link>http://pixelstories.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/im-cheating-on-zadie-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fabulism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[i.am.a.bookninja!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oba we just make this a book blog?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suck it Naipaul!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was some place in the midst of Tea Obreht’s novel The Tiger’s Wife when it was announced winner of the Orange Prize for Best Fiction. I was hardly surprised, given the unexceptionally rave entrance she has enjoyed into the literary fold – she made The New Yorker’s 20 under 40 list with no published [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pixelstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12621743&amp;post=299&amp;subd=pixelstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Come soon, June! (books)</title>
		<link>http://pixelstories.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/come-soon-june-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 12:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t read a non-academic book in months! Okay, since March, but it feels like eons ago. In that time, I have accumulated a handsome list of recommended reads and rave reviews and as a result I am this close to building a time machine that will take me straight to June,* when tests are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pixelstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12621743&amp;post=294&amp;subd=pixelstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just Like You</title>
		<link>http://pixelstories.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/just-like-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>char</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[there&#8217;s no turning around You sat on your bed, hearing old springs creak loudly in the silence. And you took in the emptiness of the large cold room, the full realisation of it washing over you. You were away from home for the first time in your life. Eighteen years old and eager to grow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pixelstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12621743&amp;post=285&amp;subd=pixelstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>christmas &#8211; how do you do yours?</title>
		<link>http://pixelstories.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/christmas-how-do-you-do-yours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>char</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Carell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Freshly Ground concert that I was so looking forward to has been cancelled. This is because the band was double-booked for shows in East Africa and South Africa, apparently. That manager needs to be fired, evidently. Well, now I have 80,000 shillings with which to fix my wonky glasses, but I also need to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pixelstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12621743&amp;post=279&amp;subd=pixelstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Africa&#8217;s new stories</title>
		<link>http://pixelstories.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/africas-new-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few things give me greater joy than reading and talking about African literature. So I had a big fat smile on my face when I opened this week’s East African to find a full-page article on the current direction of African writing. The East African rocks. I hope our local dailies are listening. Aside: did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pixelstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12621743&amp;post=264&amp;subd=pixelstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>throwing one more dice</title>
		<link>http://pixelstories.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/throwing-one-more-dice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many of us, there is always a point where we stop and think, is this what I am meant to be doing with my life? I made a decision some days ago to abandon altogether something in which I have invested close to 5 years and a shitload of money and effort. I could no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pixelstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12621743&amp;post=253&amp;subd=pixelstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Close Encounters of the Unwanted Kind</title>
		<link>http://pixelstories.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/close-encounters-of-the-unwanted-kind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>char</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[awkward moments define my life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not going into Mr. Price again. This is not a rant against the chain store itself. Sure, its Ugandan outlet is overpriced and more than half of the merchandise offered (the women’s section, at least) looks like someone ingested too much plaid, glitter and studs and proceeded to vomit on the clothes. Besides that, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pixelstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12621743&amp;post=247&amp;subd=pixelstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perfume: the story of a murderer</title>
		<link>http://pixelstories.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>char</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Patrick Suskind&#8217;s horrible and ingenious tale of young Jean-Baptiste Grenouille who has an extraordinary sense of smell and an obsession with finding and bottling the essence of perfection.  Suskind writes as the young man’s shadow, a technique that works perfectly as he takes us into the murderer’s mind, a fascinating thing because he sees the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pixelstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12621743&amp;post=243&amp;subd=pixelstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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