If the European Novel Thinks Like a Person, the African Novel Thinks Like a World Ainehi Edoro - Columbia University Press Blog Ainehi Edoro reflects on character, power, and narrative form, and how African novels think beyond the individual and imagine narrative as world-making.

What if the novel doesn’t center the individual as its organizing force? In this blog post, Ainehi Edoro examines how African fiction foregrounds worlds—layered, ecological, cosmological—where characters participate in meaning rather than govern it. buff.ly/mOSokvv #AfricanLiterature #NovelTheory

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When human species evolution changed direction.

First our species genetically diverged

then it began to converge after 1519 and the Aztec invasion