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From the Twin Plagues of European Locusts to Africa’s Triple Quest for Emancipation
. You are from Africa, I from these States. We are brothers – you and I. 128 Tanzania’s philosopher-king, Julius Nyerere, famously translated Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar into Swahili in 1963 to demonstrate that an African language could carry a classic Western tragedy. The post-independence era also produced six Nobel literature laureates: Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka, Egypt’s Naguib Mahfouz, and South Africa’s Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee, and