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I was returning home after 20 years, and the man who was driving me there turned out to be an ex-rebel. The last time I saw Kolahun, my birthplace in Liberia, was in 1990 ...

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Peter W. Vakunta

Vakunta is a Cameroonian resident in Madison-Wisconsin, USA. He teaches the Theory of African Literature and Contemporary African Fiction in the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Vakunta is novelist, storyteller, poet and essayist. He has also written language manuals. His literary works have won him awards in the U.K., USA and Africa

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