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9421779 No.9421779 [Reply] [Original]

Recommend some chocolate-colored authors to read besides Morrison and Soyinka. No Achebe and other "muh oppression" bullshit, please.

>> No.9421786

ralph ellison
marlon james
V s naipaul

>> No.9421811

>>9421779
what is the negroid equivalent of one hunnit years of solitude?

>> No.9421813

Alexandre Dumas

>> No.9421815

Walter Mosley.

>> No.9421919

>>9421779
Jacqueline Woodson (she signed my copy of Locomotion!!!)
Frantz Fanon
Thomas Sowell

>> No.9421939

>>9421779
> no muh oppression bullshit

B-b-but Malcolm X's autobiography is actually pretty good.

Not read many black authors myself to be honest, but I have also read Miles Davis' Autobiography and Charles Mingus' Beneath The Underdog. Both are pretty outstanding but I preferred Miles' book: his experience with drugs, racism, recording albums, performance, leading a band, his family, childhood, spirituality and 5 years of being a hermit are very exciting to read about from him.

Mingus' book is like if James Joyce wrote nothing else but fucking hoes in Atlanta, he has some very stream of consciousness prose written in the book to the point where you have to question if he's a reliable narrator or not. Plenty of times in the book he writes it in the third person, from the perspective of the bad influence that would lead him down to crime, drugs, pimping, etc. It's pretty fascinating, albeit it is downright degeneracy. I felt pretty dirty reading his book on the train to uni every morning.

Not sure if they would be to your liking t b h, OP, but I would recommend them to anyone who likes the sound of them, even if you have no interest in jazz.

>> No.9421967

>F3
>Type in "Machado"
>No results
Fucking plebs
Read Memories of Blas Cubas or Don Casmurro.
Best black writer, my nigga (though he´s mulatto BUT FUCK YOU, he´s above anyone)

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>>9421967
forgot pic of this beatiful man

>> No.9421985

Werewere Liking
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Chinua Achebe

>> No.9421997

>>9421985
But yes, like the anon above says, Machado is the best hands down.

>> No.9422083

>>9421939
Agree on the Miles Davis recommendation.

I'd also add Iceberg Slim and Samuel R. Delaney.

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9422087

Goethe

>> No.9422091

>>9421779
Gifted Hands by Dr. Ben Carson

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9422112

Are there any memetic works by batshit African dictators? Genocide, cannibalism, mysticism et al.

>> No.9422132

>>9422112
green book by col. gaddafi

>> No.9422137

But Baldwin is the greatest black author of all time

>> No.9422178

>>9422137
There's a black Baldwin brother? No that's gotta be one hell of a story.