Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: ‘It’s good to make right-wingers cry’

Gurnah says his generation had a particularly complex relationship with colonialism.

He welcomes the recent wave of anti-colonial protests, often focused on statues and other symbols of the era.“And it provokes all these right-wingers to come out and start crying and complaining. Good. It means the issue is kept alive.”Gurnah grew up in Zanzibar, which became part of Tanzania after gaining independence from Britain in 1963.His father came from a Yemeni family and his uncle was a wealthy trader of fish, dates and spices.

“Of course the racial politics won, but I still want to adhere to: I’m a Zanzibari, I’m not a Yemeni, this or that, or an African.” With South Africa’s Damon Galgut winning the Booker Prize and Senegal’s Mohamed Mbougar Sarr becoming the first sub-Saharan African to win France’s Prix Goncourt, 2021 proved to be a landmark year for African literature.

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