Vaughn Rasberry

Vaughn Rasberry is associate professor of English at Stanford University and academic director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. He is the author of “Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination” (Harvard UP, 2016).

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September 30. 2021

In Search of African Arabic

For Africans, the use of Arabic presents a dilemma: Without the historical role of Arabic, African writers would have been compelled to write in former colonial languages, but many also view the language as the medium of the slave trade that preceded trans-Atlantic slavery. Still, not everything magnificent on the continent must have originated elsewhere.

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