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Making a case for the teaching of reading across the curriculum in higher education
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2012)
Over the past two decades there has been much written in the literature about the
importance of reading and the importance of teaching students reading strategies
to improve their reading comprehension. Reading is one ...
Border crossings in the African travel narratives of Ibn Battuta, Richard Burton and Paul Theroux
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
This article compares the representation of African borders in the 14th-century
travelogue of Ibn Battuta, the 19th-century travel narrative of Richard Burton and the
21st-century travel writing of Paul Theroux. It ...
Love in a State of Fear: Reflections on Intimate Relations in Nuruddin Farah's Dictatorship Novels
(Routledge, 2016)
Romantic love, shot through with passion and the erotic, has extremely rarely been the focus
of the study of African oral traditions or a theme considered in African literature criticism. This
situation prevails despite ...
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, ...
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 ...
Desert ethics, myths of nature and novel form in the narratives of Ibrahim al-Koni
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
This broadly comparative essay contrasts environmentalism in the fiction in English translation of the Libyan writer, Ibrahim alKoni, with dominant trends in contemporary environmentalism. An analysis of three of the most ...