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02570aam a2200349 i 4500 001 FCEE6DAC5F0711ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211217010126 008 210416t20202020sa b 000 f eng 020 $a 143143079X 020 $a 9781431430796 035 $a (OCoLC)1246288030 040 $a Z@L $b eng $e rda $c Z@L $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d X$@ $d ZCU $d OCLCO $d EEM $d OCLCO $d OCL $d INU $d IaU $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9369.4.A338 $b T75 2020 100 1 $a Adebajo, Adekeye, $d 1966- $e author. 245 14 $a The trial of Cecil John Rhodes / $c Adekeye Adebajo. 264 1 $a Johannesburg : $b Jacana Media, $c 2020. 300 $a 174 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "'You will now be tried in this fifth heaven for five crimes committed in the Herebefore. First, mass murder; second, racism; third, grand theft of Africa's natural resources and land; fourth, exploitation and enslavement of African workers; and fifth, egotism and a vainglorious quest for immortality.' Set over five days in an African Hereafter called "After Africa", this story revolves around the British South African imperialist, Cecil Rhodes, awakening in an After African Limbo after being asleep for 120 years. Guided by Ghanaian writer Efua Sutherland, he is taken on a tour of After Africa's five heavens, experiencing Africa's great civilisations, its Nobel laureates, its writers, its musicians and its sporting legends. The novella centres on the grand trial of Cecil Rhodes in the fifth heaven for five crimes committed in the Herebefore. Two Counsel for Damnation - Olive Schreiner and Stanlake Samkange -face off against two Counsel for Salvation - Nelson Mandela and Harry Oppenheimer. The seven judges from Africa's five sub-regions and its North American, Caribbean and South American diaspora sare also well-known figures: Ruth First, Wangari Maathai, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Patrice Lumumba, Taslim Elias, Maya Angelou and Toussaint l'Ouverture."-- $c Page 4 of cover. 600 10 $a Rhodes, Cecil, $d 1853-1902 $v Fiction. 600 17 $a Rhodes, Cecil, $d 1853-1902. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00015453 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a South African fiction $y 21st century. 650 0 $a English drama. 650 7 $a South African fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01127178 650 7 $a English drama. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910737 655 7 $a Novellas. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921741 655 7 $a Novellas. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014842.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FCEE6DAC5F0711ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search