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• n  large (to 3 feet) blackish yellow-banded South American lizard; raid henhouses; used as food

• Taking care of animals is nothing new to young Kennedy: at home in Hickory Hill he has tended over a crawling, fluttering menagerie of one iguana, one scaly teju, two hawks, two .

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• Teju Cole Tweets His Way Up Africa's Slave Coast
  Teju Cole may have received widespread acclaim for his debut novel, “Open City,” but as of late, the Nigerian-American novelist has staked his claim on Twitter. Earlier this year, he reframed classic works of fiction as short stories about drones. Today, Cole is using the microblogging service to chronicle a car journey up the so-called Slave Coast of western Africa.
  July 19, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News