The Literary Corner: Introduction to the Literary Corner—Part I (side a) / Introduction to the Literary Corner Part—II (side b)

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A white plastic cassette tape with recordings of two episodes of the radio program The Literary Corner. Side A: “Introduction to the Literary Corner—Part I” Episode 1 of the radio show Literary Corner. The episode begins with intro music consisting of conga drums playing and a whistling sound. Host Brooks Robinson then welcomes the audience to the show and introduces his guests as the show’s regular analysts. They are Professor Sarah Fabio, Professor Edris Makward and Professor Daniel Kunene. Robinson then goes on to state that the episode will begin with a discussion of the origins of black world literature before segueing into the characteristics that distinguish black world literature from European, or non-black literature. One of the men states that writing came to Sub-Saharan Africa accidentally, through European colonization and exploitation.

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