Azúcar Francis Combes

Azúcar Francis CombesAzcar (sugar) is a novel about belonging in a world where all things are on the move: people, ideas, foods and not least music. Oswald Kole Osabutey Jnr, henceforth Yunior, leaves his family in Accra to travel to the mythical Caribbean island of Fumaz where the revolutionary philosophy of peopleism just about keeps its flame alive against the forces of a USSRs inspired political bureaucracy and a stifling trade blockade from imperialist USAs. Yunior

it is the book that many many more than it’s four authors will want to read

willing itself to be free yet bowed under the weight of self-suppression

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syphilis to broken bones

Born in the impoverished industrial valleys of south Wales

‘Goodbye

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presenting newly emerging writers as well as those well-established in the Arab world and beyond

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