{"id":521,"date":"2011-07-07T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T14:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=521"},"modified":"2016-03-21T17:07:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T17:07:18","slug":"whodunnit-in-southern-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/whodunnit-in-southern-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Whodunnit in Southern Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Whodunnit-in-Southern-Africa-DD2ORWVWLJ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1253\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"African fiction, African literature, Botswana, detective, Media, mystery, Politics, Ranka Primorac, Southern Africa, whodunnit, Zambia, Zimbabwe\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Whodunnit-border-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"African fiction, African literature, Botswana, detective, Media, mystery, Politics, Ranka Primorac, Southern Africa, whodunnit, Zambia, Zimbabwe\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Whodunnit-border-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Whodunnit-border-721x1024.jpg 721w, https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Whodunnit-border.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a>Detective fiction has long been popular in Southern Africa. African writers have embraced and adapted detective narratives which have come to perform a variety of aesthetic, social and cultural functions. Thrillers offer\u00a0complex insights into how authors and readers may understand the present, and imagine the future. This is seldom recognised by journalists, academics and other commentators.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0<em>Ranka Primorac<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Whodunnit-in-Southern-Africa-DD2ORWVWLJ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1278\" title=\"Download PDF\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pdf_download_ari.png\" alt=\"Download PDF\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thrillers offer complex insights into how authors and readers may understand the present, and imagine the future. This is seldom recognised by journalists, academics and other commentators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[276,153,159,2303,156,32,155,27,152,154,157,158,115],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-counterpoints","tag-african-fiction","tag-african-literature","tag-botswana","tag-culture","tag-detective","tag-media-in-publications","tag-mystery","tag-politics-in-publications","tag-ranka-primorac","tag-southern-africa","tag-whodunnit","tag-zambia","tag-zimbabwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>African fiction - Whodunnit in Southern Africa - Africa Research Inst<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"African fiction has long been popular. 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