I have volume 1 of Kim Il Sung’s works in English - printed in North Korea in the 70’s. I don’t know if the Foreign Languages Publishing House survived long enough for a Volume 2. They did put out some of Jong’s thoughts on film, if I recall correctly.
This is probably the prize of my collection. I have a first American printing of Lolita, which unfortunately has a bit of cat vomit stain on it or might be in that spot.
My GF is Zulu. This fascinates me. They have lots of superstitions like this in Africa but for the most part Christianity drove it out of them so it's pretty lost.
The Zulu were badass. I cheer for them every time I see that weird movie. I’ll have to read this one very soon - African history is so goddamn hard to find resources on.
Like, I have a whole ass BA in history. While pursuing my BA, I wanted to take a class on African history. I watched for classes on African history for at least four years at a larger university. There were never any “history of the African continent.” Never any history of Nigeria or history of the Mali empire or whatever. Everything I have I’ve pieced together has been through immense personal effort - which makes me angry. Why is African history neglected? Why is African linguistics so neglected, when click languages are the coolest thing that have ever existed? Why is Timbuktu a mythical place instead of being recognized as what was the Library of its time, that the people who saved it from whatever fucked up Salafist group attacked aren’t recognized as genuine Saints - why is African history so neglected?
A favorite personal exercise is to ask people to name 5 African counties unprompted -this is a test that almost every single person I have directly posed this question to has failed. Chad maybe, “the Congo”, Uganda. My ex had some passion for Algeria/the FLN so could name them, although I’m the only one that bothered reading Fanon.