Every writer draws from the landscapes of memory, the terrain of their upbringing, or the pulse of the places they’ve called ...

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The north of Africa shares a boundary with Asia. Africa is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South Atlantic Ocean in the south-west and the North Atlantic Ocean in the north-west.