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		<title>Get Your Free E-Book at Smashwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth C. Ryeland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m giving away one of my novellas, Juju-Men, (in all e-book formats) until 02 February 2012. Simply go to Smashwords to receive your 100% discount quoting coupon number DK97W. Enjoy the read and please leave a comment if you have time. I shall be issuing other coupons. Look out for them. Juju-Men This is a single [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africantales.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5538814&amp;post=329&amp;subd=africantales&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Berni Armstrong&#8217;s Review of  The Last Bature</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth C. Ryeland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenneth Ryeland will not be straitjacketed into a single genre or style. His first book &#8220;The Up- Country Man&#8221; is an autobiography that read like a thriller. His second “Tribal Gathering” is a series of varied short stories outlining life in postcolonial West Africa which echoed the work of authors such as Orwell, Graham Greene, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africantales.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5538814&amp;post=314&amp;subd=africantales&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Peter McCree&#8217;s review of  Tribal Gathering </title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth C. Ryeland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Tribal Gathering” is a collection of eight short stories set in the fictitious Republic of Nibana in the 1960s. Readers familiar with West Africa, however, should have little difficulty identifying many of the fictionalised places mentioned. The stories draw upon the author’s extensive experience of living and working in West Africa and are fine examples [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africantales.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5538814&amp;post=274&amp;subd=africantales&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Berni Armstrong&#8217;s review of Tribal Gathering</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth C. Ryeland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world of &#8220;Dash&#8221; or be dashed. These eight stories perfectly recreate a lost world: the early post-colonial era in West Africa. They present both a faithful portrait of expatriate society and a brave attempt to get under the skin of local West African cultures. The stories from a European perspective amply illustrate the fascination/aversion, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africantales.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5538814&amp;post=266&amp;subd=africantales&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tracy Cook&#8217;s review of The Up-Country Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth C. Ryeland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fascinating Insight: The Up-Country Man (Kindle Edition) My interest in the war in Nigeria was piqued some time ago when I read Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. Being a child of the 70s it was something I knew virtually nothing about. Therefore when I came across this book I thought it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africantales.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5538814&amp;post=257&amp;subd=africantales&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth C. Ryeland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To enable the discerning reader to sample the short stories contained in Tribal Gathering,  three of them have been presented as Novellas at Smashwords, in all e-book formats, and Amazon UK and Amazon US in Kindle format only. Here&#8217;s a taste of what they&#8217;re about. Boom Town: Charlie Robinson opens a new branch of the company in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africantales.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5538814&amp;post=236&amp;subd=africantales&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Berni Armstrong&#8217;s review of The Up-Country Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth C. Ryeland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit to a natural bias towards this book. I was a young man in Nigeria during the time the book is set and it brought back so many memories for me. Ryeland captures the uncertainty of the build up to the Nigerian Civil War with mastery. His observations are incredibly detailed and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africantales.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5538814&amp;post=229&amp;subd=africantales&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Karen Mason&#8217;s Review of The Up-Country Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth C. Ryeland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Up-Country Man is the autobiographical tale of Kenneth Ryeland, author of Tribal Gathering. As a young man in the 1960s, he was posted by Land Rover, to work in Nigeria, leaving behind his wife and young son. His posting coincided with the beginning of the Nigerian Civil War and the establishment of the short [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africantales.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5538814&amp;post=218&amp;subd=africantales&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth C. Ryeland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great news! The Up-Country Man, Tribal Gathering and The Last Bature are now available as e-books in all formats (including Kindle). Available through Smashwords, Amazon UK and Amazon US.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africantales.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5538814&amp;post=211&amp;subd=africantales&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Karen Mason&#8217;s Review of Tribal Gathering</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth C. Ryeland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to confess I approached this book with some trepidation. A series of short stories about a fictional African country in the 1960s is hardly my bag, but I made the commitment to review the book and went into it with an open mind. And what a wonderful surprise it was. I absolutely loved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africantales.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5538814&amp;post=147&amp;subd=africantales&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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