The pains of colonization are omnipresent, even when buried or seemingly removed. In Lauren Francis-Sharma’s Casualties of Truth, a woman is forced to reckon with the violence that shaped her success when she is introduced to a man from her past in apartheid South Africa. In Tochi Onyebuchi’s Harmattan Season, a private investigator is recruited to find a missing woman in post-war and French-occupied West Africa. Moderated by author and translator Jeremy Tiang (State of Emergency).
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