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Lewis Nkosi

Lewis Nkosi, the South-African born critic and novelist, is teaching at the University of Wyoming. His novel, Mating Birds, is published by Ravan Press.

Selected bibliography

  • Mandela’s Ego (2006)
  • Underground People (2002)
  • Mating Birds (1986)
  • Tasks and Masks: Themes and Styles of African Literature (1981)
  • The Transplanted Heart: Essays on South Africa (1975)

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In the LRB archive

At the Crossroads Hour · 12 November 1998

  • Chinua Achebe: A Biography by Ezenwa-Ohaeto

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive An UnAmerican in New York · 24 August 2000

  • Winds Can Wake Up the Dead: An Eric Waldrond Reader edited by Louis Parascandola

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