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Kumar, Fayaz Ahmad, and Colette Morrow. "Theorizing Black Power Movement in African American Literature: An Analysis of Morrison's Fiction." Global Language Review V, no. IV (2020): 45–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2020(v-iv).06.

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This paper analyzes the influence of the Black Power movement on the AfricanAmerican literary productions; especially in the fictional works of Toni Morrison. As an African-American author, Toni Morrison presents the idea of 'Africanness' in her novels. Morrison's fiction comments on the fluid bond amongst the African-American community, the Black Power and Black Aesthetics. The works of Morrison focus on various critical points in the history of African-Americans, her fiction recalls not only the memory of Africa but also contemplates the contemporary issues. Morrison situates the power polit

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Ndamira, Joan Kyarimpa, and Jovuret Kyarimpa. "A Fictional Depiction of the Peculiarities of the African Female Gender Experiences in the Diaspora." East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences 7, no. 1 (2024): 232–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajass.7.1.1880.

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The issue of Africans in the Diaspora stretches historically to the time when Africa began having contact with the outside world, particularly the Arabs, Chinese, Turks, and others. Beginning with the 16th to the 18th C, the contacts heightened during the Trans- Atlantic Slave Trade. Thereafter, Africans have found themselves in the Diaspora for many reasons. This has elicited a myriad of reactions to their experiences in the Diaspora. Therefore, the study sought to investigate the fictional depiction of African immigrant experiences in the Diaspora. It was guided by two objectives namely: to

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Okuhata, Yutaka. "Inheriting the “Unfinished Business”: An Introductory Study of the Dictator Novel Set in Africa." East-West Cultural Passage 22, no. 2 (2022): 87–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2022-0017.

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Abstract Whereas so-called dictator fiction in Latin America is already established as a significant literary subgenre, it is only recently that an increasing number of studies have started to deal with its counterpart set in Africa. In fact, both inside and outside the postcolonial African continent, dictator novels have been written in several languages, including English, French, Arabic, and Kikuyu. One of the most outstanding achievements among recent studies of this kind of fiction is Magali Armillas-Tiseyra’s The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South (2019), which exam

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Ohia, Dr Ben-Fred. "The Protest Tradition in African Literature: Symbolism in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah." Journal of Humanities,Music and Dance, no. 35 (September 21, 2023): 34–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jhmd.35.34.40.

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critical examination of African literature will show that Africa before the advent of Europeans in Africa had two types of literature namely: oral literature and literature written in the indigenous languages. African literature raises the question of defining African literature geographically, racially or culturally and any impingement on any of these is vehemently opposed by African writers in their works: protest novel, protest drama and protest poetry alike. The main purpose of this paper is to explore and establish the idea of “protest” as aspect of the African fiction (novel) as espoused

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Olufayo, Ezekiel Gbenga. "Cannibalistic and Pornographic Images of Lagos City in Toni Kan’s The Carnivorous City." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 7, no. 3 (2022): 152–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.73.21.

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The city is a spatial phenomenon that conditions the production of African city literature and reveals African urban life, experience, relations and problems in the aftermath of colonialism. Sociopolitical, economic and cultural issues have been of more interest to extrinsic critics of African city fiction than exploring the aesthetics that make city a universal subject in African literature. Studies on The Carnivorous City are qualitative towards the novelist’s penchant for city-life, acculturation, human struggle, greed, love, corruption and other post-independent issues in Africa, yet, Kan’

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Opoku-Agyemang, Kwabena. "Digital cities and villages: African writers and a sense of place in short online fiction." Journal of African Media Studies 15, no. 2 (2023): 217–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jams_00101_1.

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This article analyses how young African writers challenge stereotypes about the continent through their imagination of places in online short stories. These stories appear on the literary websites Brittle Paper, Jalada, Saraba, Flash Fiction Ghana, Adda and African Writer Magazine with a focus on cities and villages. Authored by ten writers from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi and Egypt, the stories contain elements of fiction that risk perpetuating negative stereotypes about Africa as they imagine their respective settings. However, textual analysis supported by an appreciation of context revea

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Smith, Robert P., and Derek Wright. "Contemporary African Fiction." World Literature Today 72, no. 4 (1998): 889. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40154434.

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Kom, Ambroise, and R. H. Mitsch. "New Directions in African Fiction, and: Contemporary African Fiction (review)." Research in African Literatures 31, no. 2 (2000): 217–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2000.0056.

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Bariki, Isaiah. "Translating African Names in Fiction." Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura 14, no. 3 (2009): 43–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.3158.

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In this paper, we study the sociocultural and ethno-pragmatic significance of African names as used by the Yoruba and Izon of Nigeria and the Akan of Ghana. From the perspective of linguistic anthropology, we show the non-arbitrary nature of these names and demonstrate the need to translate them, particularly in fictional texts, so that their significance may be preserved. Received: 25-11-08 / Accepted: 07-07-09 How to reference this article: Bariki, I. (2009). Translating African Names in Fiction. Íkala. 14(3), pp.43-61

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Okolo, Mary Stella Chika. "The need for a Philosophical reading of African Literature." Edumania-An International Multidisciplinary Journal 01, no. 02 (2023): 244–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.59231/edumania/8987.

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Literature permeates all the labyrinth of human experience. This is because literature acts as both a reflection and a reflector of society. Through the depiction of the life of individual characters the fundamental symbols and values which unite social groups across countries and in different periods of time are conveyed through literature. Important as this consideration may be, its full impact and import cannot be harnessed if they are presented as works of fiction. The main aim of literature as work of fiction is to entertain. Yet in the African context, especially given its historical bur

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Dr, BOKOTIABATO MOKOGNA Zéphirin. "Realistic Features in No Violet Bulawayo's We Need New Names." International Journal of Arts and Social Science 05, no. 11 (2023): 52–59. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7758615.

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This article deals with realistic features in No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names. Its objective is to show how Bulawayo succeeds to combine African migrants’ true facts with her fiction. In other terms, the analysis of this study lies on the different features Bulawayo resorts to for their achievements in defining each fact in this novel. As for the method, realistic, sociological and psychological approaches are prominent for the success of this study. It results that, Bulawayo succeeds to combine African migrants’ true facts with her fiction in attributing realistic fea

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Macheso, Wesley Paul. "Fiction as prosthesis: Reading the contemporary African queer short story." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 58, no. 2 (2021): 8–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i2.8633.

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In this article, I read contemporary African queer fiction as a tool employed by writers to represent and rehumanise queer identities in Sub-Saharan African societies. In these societies, heteropatriarchal authorities strive to disable queer agency by dehumanising queer subjects. I argue that African queer identities, desires, and experiences are controlled and restricted under the heterosexual gaze, which strives to ensure that human sexuality benefits patriarchy, promoting heterosexual desire as ‘natural’ and authentically African and pathologising homosexuality. African writers then employ

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Orock, Rogers. "Chinua Achebe’s postcolony: a literary anthropology of postcolonial decadence." Africa 92, no. 1 (2022): 71–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972021000838.

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AbstractCan the African novel work as interlocutor for anthropologists studying Africa’s postcolonial politics today? Conversely, is there a role for the African literary imagination in our renewed efforts to decolonize anthropology? This article draws on Chinua Achebe’s fictional representations of the postcolony in two novels, No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People, to discuss the value of the African literary archive for an anthropological interest in elites, corruption and postcolonial decadence in the early postcolony. This African literary archive has contributed enormously to Achille

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Muñoz-Valdivieso, Sofia. "Slavery fiction in Britain." Journal of European Studies 50, no. 2 (2020): 193–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047244120918481.

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This article analyses significant examples of slavery fiction published in Britain by writers who have family links to Africa and the Caribbean. As children of immigrants who had come to Britain after World War II, Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen, Fred D’Aguiar, Andrea Levy and Bernardine Evaristo shared the uncertainties of coming of age in a society that offered no space for their identities as individuals with roots in other continents. This article reviews some of their fictions and considers them as a group in their re-creation of British involvement in the slave trade and slavery. They re

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Krishnan, Madhu, Christopher Ouma, Laura Chrisman, and Mukoma Wa Ngugi. "What Was African Fiction?" Black Scholar 51, no. 3 (2021): 39–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2021.1932379.

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Adejunmobi, Moradewun. "Introduction: African Science Fiction." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 3, no. 3 (2016): 265–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2016.28.

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Ndabayakhe, Vuyiswa, and Catherine Addison. "Polygamy in African fiction." Current Writing 20, no. 1 (2008): 89–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929x.2008.9678291.

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Brzostek, Dariusz. "Constructing African future: Africa and African people in Polish science fiction of the socialist era." Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, no. 3 (49) (2021): 479–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843860pk.21.033.14353.

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The paper’s main objective is to analyse the visions of an African future in the Polish Socialist Era science fiction. Speculative fiction played an important part in the cultural landscape of socialist Poland, being integral to the popular culture as well as to communist propaganda. The image of a communist future was a major motif in the early Socialist Era science fiction narratives and also the impressive political forecast of the final worldwide triumph of the Communist Party. These narratives also included some interesting examples of the African future and the African people in the futu

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Yu Burnett, Joshua. ""Isn't Realist Fiction Enough?": On African Speculative Fiction." Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal 52, no. 3 (2019): 119–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0030.

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Joseph-Vilain, Mélanie. "Cartographies génériques, spatiales et identitaires en Afrique du Sud : Margie Orford, Lauren Beukes, Henrietta Rose-Innes." Études littéraires africaines, no. 38 (February 16, 2015): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1028675ar.

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This article examines how three South African novelists, Margie Orford, Lauren Beukes and Henrietta Rose-Innes, use crime fiction to write their country. After a brief survey of the rapid development of crime fiction in South Africa and of the critical response it received, the article proposes a reading of Like Clockwork, Zoo City and Nineveh, whereby their respective contribution to crime fiction displays three major features : first, Orford’s novel chimes in with generic conventions ; second, Beukes’s novel combines features borrowed from both crime fiction and science fiction ; and last, R

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Ofoego, Obioma. "Toward the Decolonization of African Literature, « that now-classic manifesto of African cultural nationalism »." Études littéraires africaines, no. 29 (November 26, 2014): 28–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1027493ar.

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Ce texte se propose d’analyser la problématique de la construction d’un sujet collectif (noir, africain, pan-africain), qui est au centre du manifeste littéraire Toward the Decolonization of African Literature : African Fiction and Poetry and Their Critics (1980), de la troïka igbo Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie et Ihechukwu Madubuike. Il s’agira de réfléchir sur la compatibilité entre l’ambition de ce projet et les stratégies prescriptives du manifeste, dont découle une esthétique « africaine ».

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Dr., Ilham EL MAJDOUBI. "Spatial Dynamics in African Literature: Analyzing Rural and Urban Representations in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 07, no. 08 (2024): 6670–73. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13709869.

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This paper explores the interplay between colonial and postcolonial spatial dynamics in African literature, focusing on both urban and rural landscapes. It investigates how Anglophone and Francophone African writers portray the intersection of historical and fictional settings, highlighting the influence of colonialism on African topography. By analyzing literary depictions of traditional versus dominant cultures, the study assesses the enduring colonial impact on African landscapes and its reflection in modern and contemporary sub-Saharan fiction.

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Anasiudu, Okwudiri. "Mobility Trope: Travelling as a Signature of the Afropolitan Female Quest for Existential Subjectivity in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street." Journal of Gender and Power 14, no. 2 (2020): 123–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jgp-2020-0017.

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Abstract The mobility trope is a key aesthetic feature in Afropolitan fiction and it crystalizes as the act of travelling which has become an important subject-matter in postnationalist African fictions by women such as Chimamanda Adichie, Noviolet Bulawayo or Chika Unigwe as a way of intervention on the debate of the Afropolitan female quest for existential subjectivity in 21st century African fiction. This is against the backdrop of negative essentialism and the exertions of patriarchy evident in the representation of African women’s in 20th century African fiction. Drawing from the foregoin

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Svensson, Ragni. "Afrikansk skönlitteratur på svensk bokmarknad 1961–1981." Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 45, no. 2-3 (2015): 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v45i2-3.8977.

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African Fiction on the Swedish Market 1961–1981: Bo Cavefors Publishing Ltd. and the ”Afrika berättar” (”Africa Speaks”) Series This article examines the selection, marketing and reception of contemporary African fiction on the Swedish book market of the 1960s and 70s, through the case of a book series called ”Afrika berättar”, launched by Bo Cavefors Publishing, Ltd. Bo Cavefors was the Swedish publisher of writers such as Wole Soyinka, Ngu˜gı˜ wa Thiong’o and José Luandino Vieira. The article discusses the way in which these literary works were received from the perspective of current

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Roelofse-Campbell, Z. "Enlightened state versus millenarian vision: A comparison between two historical novels." Literator 18, no. 1 (1997): 83–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v18i1.531.

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Two millenarian events, one in Brazil (Canudos Rebellion, 1897) and the other in South Africa (Bulhoek Massacre, 1921) have inspired two works of narrative fiction: Mario Vargas Llosa's The War of the End of the World (1981) and Mike Nicol’s This Day and Age (1992). In both novels the events are presented from the perspectives of both the oppressed landless peasants and the oppressors, who were the ruling élites. In both instances, governments which purported to be models of enlightenment and modernity resorted to violence and repression in order to uphold their authority. Vargas Llosa's novel

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Coundouriotis, Eleni. "Improbable Figures: Realist Fictions of Insecurity in Contemporary African Fiction." Novel 49, no. 2 (2016): 236–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-3509003.

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Inggs, Judith. "Transgressing Boundaries? Romance, Power and Sexuality in Contemporary South African English Young Adult Fiction." International Research in Children's Literature 2, no. 1 (2009): 101–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e1755619809000519.

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Although sexuality is now regarded as one of the dominant ways of representing access to power in young adult fictions, adolescent sexuality, and even teenage romance, has remained relatively unexplored in South African examples of the genre. Works that do depict sexual relationships have generally worked to deliver didactic warnings of the potential dangers of engaging in any form of sexual activity. This article explores and examines whether, and how, adolescent sexuality is depicted and portrayed in contemporary South African young adult fiction written in English. The focus is on a range o

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Ohia, Ben-Fred. "Revolutionist’s View of African Fiction as a Protest Literature: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat." International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics 7, no. 1 (2024): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.52589/ijlll-fwhtaqik.

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Protest in African literature developed out of the misrule, marginalisation, exploitation, deprivation, forced labour, slavery, and subjugation perpetrated by inept, colonialist and neo-colonialist governments in Africa. In South Africa, it is a protest against apartheid;in East Africa, it is a protest against colonial domination of the land; and in West Africa, the protest is centred on the marginalisation and subjugation of the natives by the British colonialists. Aside from these, there is a general protest that spreads the entire continent against blacks’ inhumanity to fellow blacks at the

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Howe, Nicholas. "African Horizons: The Landscapes of African Fiction (review)." Research in African Literatures 32, no. 1 (2001): 142–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2001.0013.

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Wangila, Makhakha Joseph. "Nativization of Fear and Anxiety as Identity in Selected Fiction of East African Asians." International Journal of Scientific Research and Management 10, no. 10 (2022): 1253–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsrm/v10i10.sh03.

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This paper explores the concept of fear and anxiety in the identity formation process among East African Asians as captured in their selected works of fiction. It analyses identity and belonging by examining how emotions of fear and anxiety are presented in the selected texts through characterization and imagery. Using Bahadur Tejani's Day After Tomorrow , Peter Nazareth's In a Brown Mantle, M.G Vassanji's The In-between World of Vikram Lall and Imam Verji's Who will Catch Us as We Fall? the paper analyzes the changing trends and images of fear and anxiety among East African Asians, that make

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Obiechina, Emmanuel. "Parables of Power and Powerlessness: Exploration in Anglophone African Fiction Today." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 20, no. 2 (1992): 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700501504.

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African writers in English have done much to enlarge the image of Africa in the world. The novelists among them have contributed most to the understanding of the African points of view and perspectives on life, politics, culture and history. In their roles as chroniclers, custodians of the collective heritage, social critics, teachers and visionaries of their people, the novelists have illuminated the African situation and the forces that have kept the continent in an endemic state of crisis.

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Owomoyela, Oyekan. "Readings in African Popular Fiction." Comparative Literature Studies 42, no. 3 (2005): 229–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40247493.

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Owomoyela, Oyekan. "Readings in African Popular Fiction." Comparative Literature Studies 42, no. 3 (2005): 229–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/complitstudies.42.3.0229.

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Killam, G. D., and Neil Lazarus. "Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 28, no. 2 (1994): 330. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/485742.

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Bjornson, Richard, and Neil Lazarus. "Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction." Comparative Literature 45, no. 2 (1993): 204. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1771449.

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Reynolds, Rachel R., and Stephanie Newell. "Readings in African Popular Fiction." International Journal of African Historical Studies 35, no. 2/3 (2002): 560. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3097672.

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Talekar, P. R. "History Through Fiction: Chinua Achebe A Case In Point." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research 5, no. 18 (2024): 30–32. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11654627.

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Chinua Achebe, the father of African Literature in English, was one of the most prominent Nigerian writers who dedicated his novels to represent the psychological, historical and cultural conflicts that Africans experienced as a result of the European intrusion in to African life. History plays a prominent role in postcolonial novel. The five novels of Chinua Achebe cover the Nigerian history from the pre-colonial days to the late 80s. Each novel is set in a particular period of Nigerian history

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Nammi, Srividya. "Universal Vision in the Fiction of Ben Okri." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 11 (2020): 135–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i11.10841.

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Okri’s fiction is a mix of fantasy, realism and oral tradition of Africa. Though the trilogy nearly covers some fourteen hundred odd pages, it doesn’t have a proper beginning or end. Okri’s view of an unnamedAfrican ghetto, which is going to get independence, is presented in these novels. He is not giving solutions to the existing problems , he is simply presenting the true nature of an African state in an elusive manner. He narrates The Famished Road through the experiences of an ‘abiku’, Azaro, a seven year old child. He uses Azaro to narrate the chaotic state of affairs in an African state

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ODARTEY–WELLINGTON, DOROTHY. "Fictional and Street Narratives." Matatu 47, no. 1 (2016): 153–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-90000400.

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Contemporary African fiction is a source of dystopian urban images juxtaposed with the kinds of ‘good cities’ to which the wielders of political or economic power subscribe. This article examines the dominant representations of the ‘good city’ and how they are contested or subverted from various narrative perspectives. It focuses on inscriptions of the city in fictional narratives and on inscriptions such as street signs and place names found in cities in order to explore the tensions and the contradictions in images of urban experience in Africa.

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CARAIVAN, LUIZA. "21st Century South African Science Fiction." Gender Studies 13, no. 1 (2014): 93–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/genst-2015-0007.

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Abstract The paper analyses some aspects of South African science fiction, starting with its beginnings in the 1920s and focusing on some 21st century writings. Thus Lauren Beukes’ novels Moxyland (2008) and Zoo City (2010) are taken into consideration in order to present new trends in South African literature and the way science fiction has been marked by Apartheid. The second South African science fiction writer whose writings are examined is Henrietta Rose-Innes (with her novel Nineveh, published in 2011) as this consolidates women's presence in the SF world.

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Barnsley, Veronica. "Everyday childhoods in contemporary African fiction." Journal of the British Academy 10s2 (2022): 283–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/jba/010s2.283.

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This article contends that humanitarian imagery and sociopolitical discourses that present African childhoods as �lacking� are being rigorously challenged by African fiction that illuminates the diversity of childhood experiences that make up the everyday. The article aims to show that neither the trope of the African child as silent victim nor the globalised African child whose trajectory is characterised by escape from local and national ties is able to capture the complexity and plurality of �parochial� (Jaji 2021) childhoods and suggests that new versions of childhood are emerging in Afric

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Kiguru, Doseline. "Speculative fiction and African urban futures: Reading Imagine Africa 500." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 58, no. 1 (2021): 98–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i1.8426.

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This article explores the place of the future African city as presented in contemporary African speculative fiction. It focuses on the short stories in the collection Imagine Africa 500 to look at how the urban space is conceptualized in these narrations of an imagined future Africa, 500 years from now. While the discussion looks at the urban space and imagined technological development, it also takes note of ecological narratives and the contrast drawn between the city and the rural, the local and the foreign, as imagined for the future. The article aims to provoke a debate on the imagination

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Gugler, Josef. "African Films in the Classroom." African Studies Review 53, no. 3 (2010): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0002020600005643.

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Abstract:A wealth of excellent films from Africa is readily available for classroom use, even if much of Anglophone Africa remains poorly represented. African films can serve to challenge students' assumptions and to foster a critical examination of Western films set in Africa. Extending the scope of conventional “African” courses to North Africa adds a substantial body of notable productions, some of which address current concerns such as Islamic fundamentalism. African films have to be contextualized; even when they are examined as works of art and as examples of world cinema, full appreciat

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Twohig, Erin. "Crossing the Sahara to Paradise: Imagining African Utopia in Riadh Hadir's Pupille." Expressions maghrébines 23, no. 2 (2024): 15–32. https://doi.org/10.1353/exp.2024.a947454.

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Abstract: Riadh Hadir's work of dystopian fiction, Pupille , tells of a post-apocalyptic future, in which Africa below the Sahara has purportedly been irradiated and rendered inhospitable to life. Yet the novel's protagonists discover an entirely alternate reality, as they undertake a trans-Saharan migration towards an African utopia. While Pupille critiques Africa's absence from Maghrebi futuristic literature and reverses the geographic direction of migration narratives to point them south beyond the Sahara, it also continues to grapple with the divorcing of "the Maghreb" from "Africa". In so

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1, V.Kavitha, and Mr. M.Arul Darwin 2. "Quest of Women's Rights in African Feminist Theory and Fiction." Literary Druid 2, no. 1 (2020): 27. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3606636.

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N'Dour, Fatou. "Gender-based Violence and Women’s Emancipation in Modern African Fiction." Himalayan Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies 04, no. 02 (2023): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.47310/hjhcs.2023.v04i02.005.

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Women have always played a major role in the cultural and social development of any nation. Given their social status as child bearers and educators, women were often victims of illiteracy, violence, exploitation and oppression mainly in patriarchal African society. In this respect, colonialism was one of the main factors which undermined women’s role, and responsibilities and deprived them of land own ship for several centuries back. However during postcolonial period, with the emergence of feminist voices such as female writers, female subjugation gave rise to women’s empowerment and emancip

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Echeverri Zuluaga, Jonathan. "Tropes of Social Becoming Along a History of Circulation Within West Africa and From There to Latin America." REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana 31, no. 67 (2023): 37–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880006704.

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Abstract Since the turn of the 21st century, the circulation of people from West Africa in and out of the African continent has intensified, turning Latin America into an emergent destination and transit zone. Drawing both from scholarly works and fiction, this article reflects on tropes of social becoming within a history of West African human movement that precedes present day circulation. By tropes of social becoming, I mean narratives around people realizing aspirations, in which scholars, storytellers, literary persons, and the media bring it into existence. While some of the tropes this

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Woods, Joanna. "Metallic Mode: Exploring African Speculative Fiction through the Affordances of Metal." Science Fiction Studies 51, no. 3 (2024): 383–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2024.a938530.

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ABSTRACT: African sf occupies a particularly interesting interstitial space, blurring lines between science fiction and the fantastical. The literature defies easy categorization. This paper looks at the associations between metal and Africa to explore such defiance and to develop the idea that African sf can be called a "metallic mode." I explore the affordances of metal in two contemporary texts: Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift (2019) and Andrew Miller's Dub Steps (2015). Informed by Caroline Levine's work on form and its affordances , I examine the potential we might find in the properties

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Coates, Oliver. "New Perspectives on West Africa and World War Two." Journal of African Military History 4, no. 1-2 (2020): 5–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24680966-00401007.

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Abstract Focusing on Anglophone West Africa, particularly Nigeria and the Gold Coast (Ghana), this article analyses the historiography of World War Two, examining recruitment, civil defence, intelligence gathering, combat, demobilisation, and the predicament of ex-servicemen. It argues that we must avoid an overly homogeneous notion of African participation in the war, and that we should instead attempt to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, as well as differentiating in terms of geography and education, all variables that made a significant difference to wartime labour conditio

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Homaifar, Nazaneen. "The African prostitute: an everydaydebrouillardin reality and African fiction." Journal of African Cultural Studies 20, no. 2 (2008): 173–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696810802522296.

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