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By Sarali Gintsburg, Kenneth Usongo
October 14, 2024
Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from different literary genres across the continent. The chapters in the book constitute a sustained and ...
By Izabela Romańczuk
October 02, 2024
This book provides a rich and full analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their important contributions to the living Swahili literary and intellectual tradition. Compared to the diverse and centuries-old oral literature, or religious-philosophical poetry ...
By Chukwunwike Anolue
July 24, 2024
This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of the famous Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare. The book interrogates the intricate interface between time and nature in 12 of Osundare’s defining poetry collections. This is a book of postcolonial ecocriticism from an African perspective. It ...
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By Norman Saadi Nikro, Denish Odanga, James Odhiambo Ogone, Oduor Obura, Obala Musumba
July 15, 2024
This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions. The book extends our understanding of trauma beyond people’s immediate and conventional experiences of disastrous events and incidents, instead ...
By Renée Schatteman
June 17, 2024
This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most prolific and groundbreaking writers, widely recognized for highlighting the everyday experiences of women and the domestic side of apartheid. A pioneer among black African women writers, she is equally respected as ...
By Rose A. Sackeyfio
August 08, 2023
This book examines the complexities of women’s lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works of key African women writers. Using a postcolonial analytical framework, the book highlights the commonalities of African women’s identities and ...
By Ode Ogede
March 10, 2023
This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria’s third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era. The creative writing of this period reflects ...
By Dike Okoro
December 14, 2022
This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence. Kunene is widely recognized for his epic poems that assert cultural identity and condemn the disruption of the growth and ...
By David Ekanem Udoinwang, James Tar Tsaaior
August 25, 2022
This book provides an important critical analysis of the autobiographies of nine major leaders of national liberation movements in Africa. By examining their self-narratives, we can better understand how decolonisation unfolded and how activist-politicians sought to immortalise their roles for ...