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Zambia

“It is an African story in that it is set in Africa. It is also told from an African perspective, and the characters are all African. However, it is a human story before it is African because it is about human beings – and that makes it universal.”

–Ellen Banda-Aaku, on her novel ‘Patchwork’, (Interview in The Afropolitan)