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Your total satisfaction is guaranteed with every single order. Zakes mda reads an extract from his book ways of dying. End page 87 we cannot think of violence in african literature without thinking of the same in african societies, and to say that violence is rife in many african societies would be an understatement. Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy. Ways of dying by zakes mda is a story about the triumph of human love and creativity of a downtrodden people.
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