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RE: 1 SBD to win - the best first sentence of a novel 📚 Welcher Roman hat den besten ersten Satz ? 📚 copy&paste contest!
An Igbo proverb tells us that a man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot say where he dried his body.
The rain that beat Africa began four to five hundred years ago, from the 'discovery' of Africa by Europe, through the transatlantic slave trade, to the Berlin Conference in 1885.
Title : There was a Country
Author : Chinua Achebe