Book Review: Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics Edited by Rui Lopes & Natalia Telepneva
Nordic Journal of African Studies
Author: Joanna Woods
Negotiating Home in the Long Poem
In this paper, I argue that Amatoritsero Ede uses the long poem to negotiate the idea of home in an African diasporic context. As a form that carries the implications of length, time, and space, the long poem has been used by poets to interr…
A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Cloth Names in Ewe
The main aim of this paper is to explore the sociolinguistic significance of cloth names among the Ewe people. Additionally, the study investigates whether the use of cloth names as communicative modes is still a vital linguistic form in thi…
Diasporic Witnessing
This article explores diasporic cultural texts that document suffering in homeland contexts. Analysing contemporary visual art produced by Nigerian artists based in Canada and Belgium, and engaging with canonical scholarship on witnessing, s…
“Let Me Come to Tell You”: Rethinking Gender, Colonialism, and Narratives of Modernity from the Northern Namibian Sound Archive
This contribution to the special issue develops an argument about time and gender in African history in relation to historical sound recordings. Revisiting a case study from the Namibian sound archive I demonstrate innovative methodological …
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Death and Compassion: The Elephant in Southern African Literature by Dan Wylie
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