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African writers should realise that there is a price to pay for a suburban existence in a sedated part of the world.

The current slogan that resonates all over the region: “the people want to change the Regime!” is being turned by the Islamist regime of Khartoum into: “the Regime wants to change the People!” For people to change their bad regimes is commonplace; but for a detestable and corrupt regime to decide to change its people is a matter that cannot be achieved without those wretched people being killed in cold blood

My name is Grace Kim, and I am a stereotype. And I will remain a stereotype, until you open your ears and your heart to me.

Tamara Moellenberg writes in from a new African Writing Reading Group in Oxford…