Rabeea Saleem

A melting pot of mercenaries: Afterlives, by Abdulrazak Gurnah, reviewed

Two lost boys from East Africa join the Schutztruppe’s askaris in Gurnah’s harrowing novel of colonial atrocity

Askaris in German East Africa. Credit: Alamy 
issue 03 October 2020
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    Abdulrazak Gurnah

    Bloomsbury, pp. 288, £16

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