Season of Migration to the North Christmas Is art obliged to engage

Is art obliged to engage with politics

showing how the aesthetic and political ideas found in the experimentation of cinematic modernisms and New Waves are as African as they are European

Knox explores where people lived and worked

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Season of Migration to the North Christmas Is art obliged to engageWhen a young man returns to his village in the Sudan after many years studying in Europe, he finds that among the familiar faces there is now a stranger the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed. As the two become friends, Mustafa tells the younger man the disturbing story of his own life in London after the First World War. Lionized by society and desired by women as an exotic novelty, Mustafa was driven to take brutal revenge on the decadent West and was, in