Cast in a language at once as stark and as pregnant with possibility as the West African landscape itself, this prizewinning collection of poems by acclaimed African writer and artist V ronique Tadjo cuts to the heart of the modern African experience. The term lat rite refers to the red, iron-rich earth characteristic of many West African villages and roads. Suggestive of movement--of the age-old displacement of African peoples, of shifting directions...
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