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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, ...
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 ...
Postnational paradoxes: Nuruddin Farah's recent novels and two life narratives in counterpoint
(Indiana University Press, 2018)
Nuruddin Farah’s most recent novel, Hiding in Plain Sight, provides an
interesting fictional terrain within which to explore postcolonial postnationalism. This novel highlights the impacts of globalization and transnationalism ...
“Newes from the Dead” An Unnatural Moment in the History of Natural Philosophy
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)
This chapter is about the problem of writing what has already been
written.
Several years ago I was approached by Renaissance Scholar Stephen
Greenblatt to write a so-called “missing” Shakespeare play, a work titled
Cardenio ...
Evaluation of source rock potential and hydrocarbon composition of oil sand and associated clay deposits from the Eastern Dahomey Basin, Nigeria
(ScienceDirect, 2019)
Oil sands are classified as unconventional hydrocarbon plays and are being exploited to augment global energy needs. Nigeria has the largest conventional oil industry in Africa, but is also endowed with abundant oil sand ...
Ethno-Regionalism, politics and the role of religion in Zambia: Changing Ecumenical landscapes in a Christian nation, 2015-2018
(Brill, 2019)
This contribution explores the interaction between religion and politics in a religiously plural and ethnically multidimensional Zambian context. Given the political salience of both religion and ethnicity in Zambian ...
Birds and bees, the ‘r’ word and zuma’s p*nis: censorship avoidance strategies in a south african online newspaper’s comments section
(Springerlink, 2019)
Although linguistic practices in online platforms continue to receive fair scholarly attention, limited research has been conducted on online censorship avoidance strategies in South Africa about online newspapers. We use ...