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Mineke Schipper
Mineke Schipper is Emeritus Professor of Intercultural Literary Studies at the University of Leiden. She taught at the Université Libre du Congo and has held visiting professorship...vizualizați mai multeMineke Schipper is Emeritus Professor of Intercultural Literary Studies at the University of Leiden. She taught at the Université Libre du Congo and has held visiting professorships in Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso and China. She has a Royal Order of Knighthood for 'building intercultural bridges nationally and internationally, inside and outside the academy' from The Netherlands. She continues her scholarly work at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).
She is the author of several academic books, essays and novels, including 'Imagining Insiders: Africa and the Question of Belonging' (1999) and the internationally acclaimed 'Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from Around the World', for which she received the Eureka Award for best non-fiction book in 2005.vizualizați mai puține