{"id":7198,"date":"2012-09-05T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=7198"},"modified":"2012-09-03T17:52:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T21:52:01","slug":"the-best-contemporary-african-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/7198","title":{"rendered":"The Best Contemporary African Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/zc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7200\" title=\"zoo city_cover_layout\" src=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/zc-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/zc-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/zc.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Guardian<\/em>, <a title=\"The 10 Best Contemporary African Books\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/gallery\/2012\/aug\/26\/africa?newsfeed=true\" target=\"_blank\">the 10 best contemporary African books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the blurbs that accompany the slideshow, I&#8217;ve ordered <a title=\"Zoo City\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Zoo-City-Lauren-Beukes\/dp\/0857662163\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346604539&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=zoo+city\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Zoo City<\/em><\/a> and <a title=\"Beneath the Lion's Gaze\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beneath-Lions-Gaze-Maaza-Mengiste\/dp\/0393338886\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346604592&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=beneath+the+lion%27s+gaze\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Beneath the Lion&#8217;s Gaze<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of <em>Zoo City<\/em>, William Gibson&#8217;s praise on the cover was what convinced me, and having started reading it, <em>Zoo City<\/em> does have a certain cyberpunk feel to it. Now that&#8217;s something I&#8217;d like to read more of: Afro-cyberpunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian, the 10 best contemporary African books. Based on the blurbs that accompany the slideshow, I&#8217;ve ordered Zoo City and Beneath the Lion&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/7198\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Best Contemporary African Books<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-1S6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7198"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7201,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions\/7201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}