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Arani Guerra is a Latin American writer.

• Images of Africa in Children’s Books

  By Arani Guerra on 13 January , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Last month I babysat a friend’s child. It was Friday night and there I was, sitting next to him in his bed: it was story telling time. I drew from a pile of books a colourfully covered one, with a… Read More ›

• Failures of Gilroy’s Black Atlantic (1993)

  By Arani Guerra on 24 June , 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic – book and concept – has been a relevant reference for African and Atlantic studies. In JSTOR, a database of academic papers, when the words “black Atlantic” and “Gilroy” are used in the search engine, more… Read More ›