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Title: eloquent perspectives
Review: Isichei gives us a sweeping survey of African views and folktales. Perspectives that are often ignored outside the continent. Yet here, as in fragments of poetry that she translates, they shine through in eloquence.Grim subjects also appear. Especially the sourge of AIDS, which ravages southern Africa. An irony is that traditional folk healers' influences are sometimes reinforced by AIDS. Mostly because of the lack of an affordable cure, since the protease inhibitors are largely out of the peasants' budgets.
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