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Refractive Africa Jackie Wang She recounts the story ofWill Alexander Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the California Book Award, Refractive Africa, a 'Ballet of the Forgotten', is a searing pas de trois. The volumes opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean Joseph Rabearivelotwo writers whose luminous art suffered 'colonial wrath through refraction.' A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and