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Reading Well: The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Maaza Mengiste‘s second novel, The Shadow King (2019), illuminates an oft-overlooked period in Ethiopian history, the occupation by Italian forces under Mussolini as part of fascist military activity in Africa in World War II. Mengiste tells this story through an … Continue reading →

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