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  "id": 12287507,
  "title": "Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Author of Seminal Anticolonial Novel, Dies at 98",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/cheikh-hamidou-kane-author-of-seminal-anticolonial-novel-dies-at-98",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-06T02:50:55.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "slug": "nyt-arts",
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/obituaries/cheikh-hamidou-dead.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Senegalese writer was lauded as one of the founding fathers of African literature despite publishing only two novels.",
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}