Afro asian poetry biography of george washington

Monica Popescu’s new book brings postcolonial studies under the “Cold War lens” to examine the latter’s buried traces in African cultural productions.[1] It goes beyond the Cold War binary to emphasize African writers’ autonomy and creativity in search for literary aesthetics.

Even though it mentions fleetingly some African writers’ engagements with Afro-Asian associations, however, it does not go deep into Africa’s “writing with” Asia and Latin America. Current studies on the communist camp’s cultural influence over Africa tend to focus on the Afro-Asian Writers’ Bureau (AAWB), in which China is positioned as a dominant influence in competition with the Soviet Union and the United States to win the “Third World.”[2] This focus on China in another way ignores the agency and autonomy of African writers and nations in these interactions.

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