{"id":261226,"date":"2008-04-02T13:46:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T13:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/04\/02\/africa-reading-challenge\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:19","slug":"africa-reading-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/04\/02\/africa-reading-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Reading Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Scott Esposito<\/a> for bringing our attention to the Africa Reading Challenge<\/a> starting up at Siphoning Off a Few Thoughts.<\/p>\n

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In recent years I\u2019ve become increasingly interested in reading books dealing with Africa, and so I present the Africa Reading Challenge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Participants commit to read – in the course of 2008 – six books that either were written by African writers, take place in Africa, or deal significantly with Africans and African issues. (Read more if you like!)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Participants are asked to post a reading list on their individual blogs and then write a review of each title they cover. Pretty interesting idea—simple to execute, and very valuable for anyone looking to find out more about literature from Africa. <\/p>\n

Esposito suggested doing one for Reading the World . . . Which isn’t a bad idea at all . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Scott Esposito for bringing our attention to the Africa Reading Challenge starting up at Siphoning Off a Few Thoughts. In recent years I\u2019ve become increasingly interested in reading books dealing with Africa, and so I present the Africa Reading Challenge. Participants commit to read – in the course of 2008 – six books […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[11176,426,1836,1646,416],"class_list":["post-261226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-africa-reading-challenge","tag-conversational-reading","tag-cwp","tag-review","tag-scott-esposito"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326766,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261226\/revisions\/326766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}