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What We Are Reading: Prose In Different Area Codes

PROSE: Salman Rushdie brings heavy guns against George Orwell and Hol­ly­wood in Out­side the Whale. Chris Abani’s book is pulled off Florida’s sum­mer read­ing list because of racy con­tent. Read excerpts from Mark Twain’s auto­bi­og­ra­phy, as well as Abdul Adan’s review of African Roar. Then Binya­vanga Wain­naina writes a sequel to his famous viral piece, “How To Write About

EKITI ELECTIONS: A REVIEW

It appears the entire world paid close atten­tion to the recent Ekiti elec­tions. News out­lets from the BBC, to the Finan­cial Times and Reuters, to papers across the world reported on the elec­toral ten­sion and even­tual con­fu­sion and vio­lence which marred the process. While these news orga­ni­za­tions and many of their read­ers could observe these