Angelina Jolie

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In 2005, Abdulrazak Gurnah published “Desertion,” an epic novel about how the legacy of colonialism affected generations of African and British families in Zanzibar. Just a handful of years later, Gurnah became the first African writer in more than a decade to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. On the occasion of the republication of “Desertion” and two other landmark works (“Afterlives” and “By the Sea”) I spoke to him about why the movement of refugees and migrants from the global south to the global north today cannot be separated from the injustice of colonialism. @time #time100 #AbdulrazakGurnah

In 2005, Abdulrazak Gurnah published “Desertion,” an epic novel about how the legacy of colonialism affected generations of African and British families in Zanzibar. Just a handful of years later, Gurnah became the first African writer in more than a decade to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. On the occasion of the republication of “Desertion” and two other landmark works (“Afterlives” and “By the Sea”) I spoke to him about why the movement of refugees and migrants from the global south to the global north today cannot be separated from the injustice of colonialism. @time #time100 #AbdulrazakGurnah