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...attention to his native Ghana. He is currently finishing a manuscript on “towns and disease in Anglophone West Africa,” and said he is contemplating using the professorship’s resources for “a new project on cultural history among the Asanti...
Because the summary judgment of the last 30years is that while he was a fascinating andromantic figure, Hemingway was a colossal jerk.He is seen, at best, as ignoring women and atworst as a vicious misogynist; he is cast asanti-Semitic; he is pronounced guilty of writingAfrican-American and native African characters outof his works and of racism when he does includethem. And even when Hemingway is not offendinganybody, he has been labeled infantile. Writerslike Tobias Wolff mark their adulthood at thepoint when they cease to be entranced byHemingway's bravado; and perhaps many--like PeterMathiessen, who smugly pronounced the author...
Folkman and his colleagues at HMS have isolatedangiogenesis inhibitors, also known asanti-angiogenesis factors, which have been testedupon animals. TNP470 was the first inhibitorisolated from a fungus. Four more inhibitors havebeen subsequently discovered in the human body...
Besides regularly contributing to philosophical and cultural publications, he coedits, with Gates, Transition, a journal "which looks at the world from within the African diaspora." This summer, he completed a manuscript of a book of proverbs from Asanti, the kingdom in which he grew up. And he is currently editing The Oxford Book of African Literature...
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