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		<title>Since We Are Afraid of Infinite Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts on Boko Haram Consider the danger of infinite silence. They come to us in the name of God, for evil has taken the guise of virtue. They say they are speaking a collective language, premised on restating the religious utopia created by their prophet. Their prophet. Clearly, their God and their prophet are imagined. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is This The End of The Nigerian Revolution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something dies in you. You feel disconnected from your dream of a glorious aftermath. For the first time in your life you felt whole, framed within a bigger picture. You spoke, chanted, demanded. You were a witness, you and a million others. You were a revolutionary. Now things have returned to normal. Normal because there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Needing This Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Subsidy Nigeria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“La résistance est une forme de collaboration” – Albert Camus There are no groupings in my head. I am not being spoken for. No one will speak for me if I do not speak for myself. Tell this to those who have formed groups and begotten labels in my name: I will join you if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See, The Nigerian Revolution Has Begun</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/see-the-nigerian-revolution-has-begun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You tell me that if I speak I will not be heard. No. I will speak and I will be heard. I am not a writer only by talent. I am a writer because I want to be a witness, a real witness. You recall Edward Said, “There was something wrong with how I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A List of Small Wonders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published on The Mantle I am making a list of small wonders, and it is five months long. In my work as Publisher and Managing Editor of an electronic literary magazine based in Nigeria, I have learned to listen closely for the sound of things to come. It is evident and without doubt that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saraba 10 &#8211; The Music Issue</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/9032/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year has ended monumentally for us, over here at Saraba Magazine. Our final issue themes on music: Here at Saraba, music has been a perpetual ache, a constant obsession, so we are as confounded as you are that it took this long to rest our oars on these stringed sheets that stretches memory and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lists: Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fatima el-Tayeb]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its that time of year when the various forms of media are filled with endless lists of the &#8220;best of&#8221; the year. I usually try to push against following the crowd but this particular list is worthy of repeating &#8220;The Alternative, The Underground, The Oh-Yes-That-One List of Favorite Books of 2011&#8221; I start with my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Earned the Right to Speak about Anything</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/how-i-earned-the-right-to-speak-about-anything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/how-i-earned-the-right-to-speak-about-anything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clarice Lispector]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ethinicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helene Cixous]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ile-Ife]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard, as I am sure most writers know, to efface the person, render it impotent in the face of the writing life. Who I am always haunts my writing; and this is why and how I argue that I have earned the right to speak about anything – and you might want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A woman who walks through the yam field</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/8483/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chinua Achebe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered poems and short stories on Guernica &#8211; here is one from Chinua Achebe which he adapted from Chike and the River. Like many of Achebe&#8217;s stories it has the usual assortment of Igbo proverbs. This one ends with the saying&#8230;. A man who can walk through the Nkisa with his bare feet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Covers Online Writing Workshop</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/beyond-covers-online-writing-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am glad to be part of an online writing workshop starting next week. Here are useful links: www.facebook.com/paperglory www.paperglory.blogspot.com http://www.naijastories.com/2011/10/beyond-covers-writing-workshop-online/]]></description>
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