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Politics, privileges, and loyalty in the Zimbabwe national army
(African Studies Association, 2017)
In postcolonial Africa, the military has become an actor in politics, often
in ways that can be described as unprofessional. This paper focuses on the manner
in which the Zimbabwean National Army (ZNA) has become heavily ...
Knowledge and unlearning in the Poetry of Koleka Putuma and Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese
(Routledge, 2018)
This paper provides a reading, through a decolonial lens, of the debut work of two recently
published South African poets, Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese and Koleka Putuma. In the work
of both poets, the reader encounters ...
BECOMING-MINORITARIAN Constructions of coloured identities in creative writing projects at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
The institutional history of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in some ways mirrors the paradoxes, ambiguities, absurdities, contradictions and possibilities – in short, the complexities – of the concept “coloured”. ...
In the heart of the country: The auto/biographies of Ayesha Dawood and Fatima Meer
(University of Cape Town, 2020)
South African struggle auto/biography has been a male-dominated
genre in which the political has correspondingly dominated the
personal. These life narratives have presented the formation of
relatively coherent, autonomous ...
Dog sacrifice in Isidore Okpewho’s call me by my rightful name and the Works of Wole Soyinka: Ogun, race, identity and diaspora
(Ranchi: Glocal Colloquies, 2016)
This essay considers the ways in which the significance of blood
sacrifice in the propitiation of the Yoruba god Ogun is transformed in the
context of international literature which asserts an endogenous African
modernity, ...
Eros and Self-Realization: Zora Neale Hurston’s Janie and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru
(The Pennsylvania State University, 2020)
A comparative analysis of Zora Neale Hurston’s Teir Eyes Were Watching
God and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru suggests the importance of romantic love to the self actualization of the heroines of these novels, whose authors share ...
Elusive Jannah: The Somali diaspora and borderless Muslim identity, by Cawo M. Abdi
(York University Libraries, 2018)
Overall, Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement
should be applauded for emphasizing the need to recognize
the complexity of refugee lives, and to rethink the dominant
assumptions that so often render refugees ...
Embodied urban health and illness in Cape Town: Children’s reflections on living in Symphony Way temporary relocation area
(National Inquiry Services Centre, 2015)
This paper explores ideas about health and illness held by six children who live in the
Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area in Cape Town, South Africa. The research shows
that solutions to illness and health problems ...
New imperatives for librarianship in Africa
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)
Africa, in colonial times regarded as the “Dark Continent,” faces
many challenges, whether infrastructural, cultural, or political. Despite these challenges, countries on the continent cannot afford to
be complacent. The ...
Zimbabwean foodways, feminisms, and transforming nationalisms in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s nervous conditions and no violet bulawayo’s we need new names
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)
Food studies are a productive lens through which to view the impact of social, cultural, historical and political shifts on conceptions of female identity. Nervous Conditions (1988) and we need new names (2013) are two ...