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- Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- The Corner that Held Them, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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- V.V. Ganeshananthan’s novel “Brotherless Night”
- Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987, by James E. Genova
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Valère Somé names a torturer in a book just published, « Les nuits froides de Décembre, l’exil ou… la mort »
Valere Somé says that Jean-Pierre Palm tortured him and others while he was imprisoned after Thomas Sankara was killed. Somé also accuses Salif Diallo of having tortured Saran Sérémé. Very serious accusations. The only other occasion I can think of … Continue reading
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