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African Languages and African Literature

UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2011
In the 1960s, much diatribe was exchanged by African literary artists within their caucus, and outside with different scholars interested in African literature. Wali demonstrates this disagreement. He comments, “… until these writers and their western midwives accept the fact that true African literature must be written in African ...
Eme, CA, Mbagwu, DU
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Addressing Gender-Based Violence through Music – A Study of the Gospel Song ‘Isandla’ by Rebecca Malope [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Released in 2005 by renowned South African gospel singer, the song ‘Isandla’ by Rebecca Malope remains relevant as GBV continues to persist in South Africa.
Gcinile Beauty Thwala, Sinoyolo Nokutywa
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Let’s sing our heroes: A comparison of biographical series for children in Kenya and South Africa

Literator, 2004
In this article two series of biographies written for children, and dealing with prominent personalities in Kenya and South Africa, are compared. In the line of argumentation developed the aim is to examine the main features in these biographies, and to ...
C.K. Muriungi
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A Non-Media-Centric Approach to Mediatization: Digital Orientations in the Lives of Football Fans

International Journal of Communication, 2021
In this article, we argue for the importance of a non-media-centric approach to mediatization. To do this, we develop a theoretical framework that combines Schulz’s influential work on the four dimensions of mediatization with novel insights from the ...
Michael Skey, Solomon Waliaula
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ECOS DO MOVIMENTO DA NEGRITUDE NAS LITERATURAS AFRICANAS DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA

LexCult, 2017
The thirties of twentieth century were marked by the emergence of the Negritude Movement, articulated by black students, inside and outside Africa, who proposed to rethink the place and value of black culture in the world,
Vanessa Ribeiro Teixeira
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“To say what you are trying to say”: Douglas Livingstone’s personae in A rosary of bone (1975b & 1983)

Literator, 2011
This article offers a critical overview of the personae Douglas Livingstone (1932-1996) adopts in two editions (1975b; 1983) of “A rosary of bone”.
Tony Ullyatt
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Narrative of governance crisis in Nigeria: Allegory of resource curse and “Emergence” in Tunde Kelani’s Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò

Cogent Social Sciences, 2020
From the resource curse perspective, this article investigated how Tunde Kelani’s twin-movies, Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò, explored the vulnerability of leaders in natural-resource dependent state to corrupt practices, leading ultimately to governance ...
Taiwo A. Olaiya
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The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature [PDF]

, 2023
This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in [The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature] on [16/05/2024], available online: http://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-the-New-African-Diasporic ...
Blair, Peter
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Accessing African History Through Literature

, 2011
Drawing from the premise that African literature is largely functional, this paper aims at showing its validity in offering its readers fundamental aspects of African history.
E Ngongkum, Ngongkum, E
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Historical representation in White South African Discourse: Postmodernizing Pamela Jooste’s Frieda And Min. [PDF]

Journal of Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2019
This paper uses postmodernism to analyse Pamela Jooste’s novel, Frieda and Min, to show how she engages in the move towards deconstructing the apartheid history and valorizes the black South African culture.
Eric Nsuh Zuhmboshi (PhD), E-mail : zuhmboshi@justice.com.
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