Nuruddin Farah and Somali culture

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  • Ali Jimale Ahmed Department of Comparative Literature at Queens College, New York, United States

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https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.57i1.7983

Keywords:

Nuruddin Farah, African literature, Somali culture

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Ali Jimale Ahmed, Department of Comparative Literature at Queens College, New York, United States

Ali Jimale Ahmed is professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Comparative Literature at Queens College, New York, USA. His books include The Invention of Somalia and When Donkeys Give Birth to Calves.

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Farah, Nuruddin. Secrets. Penguin, 1998.

Farah, Nuruddin, Feroza Jussawalla & Reed Way Dasenbrock. “Nuruddin Farah”. Interviews with Writers of the Post-colonial World, edited by Feroza Jussawalla & Reed Way Dasenbrock. U P of Mississippi, 1992, pp. 43–62.

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2020-04-20

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Ahmed, A. J. (2020). Nuruddin Farah and Somali culture . Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, 57(1), 11–17. https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.57i1.7983

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Vol. 57 No. 1 (2020)

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