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Philippine Star
Philippine Star
LODESTAR – Danton Remoto – The Philippine Star November 27, 2021 | 12:00am Charles R. Larson edited and introduced the first major collection of African short stories called Under African Skies. It contained stunning fiction by black writers from a continent whose fiction is marked by a struggle for independence and a confrontation with the residues of white colonialism. When the countries had thrown off the yoke of the colonial master, they were then ruled by local leaders who seem to be the same, if not worse, than the original white masters. This seems to be the fate of many formerly coloni…