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Title: The five names of Tatamkhulu Afrika: Africanness, Europeanness, and Islam in a South African autobiography: rejecting the "Europeanness" that his upbringing and his light skin had given him, Tatamkhulu Afrika sought Africanness through Islam, activism, and empathy with other blacks. For Afrika, an African identity does not reside in the skin but is earned and recognized by others.(currents)(Critical essay)
Author: Gabeba Baderoon
Publication:World Literature Today (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2009
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 83 Issue: 1 Page: 56(5)

Article Type: Critical essay

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