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Oguibe, Olu, and Nicole Guez. "L'Art Africain Contemporain/Contemporary African Art: Guide." African Arts 30, no. 1 (1997): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3337485.

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Oliveira, Bruno Ribeiro. "Literatura, Linguagem e Descolonização em Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (Quênia) e Chinua Achebe (Nigéria)." Revista Discente Ofícios de Clio 5, no. 9 (2021): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.15210/clio.v5i9.19248.

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A história de literatura africana contemporânea está repleta de debates que tratam de sua utilidade frente aos povos de África e a natureza dessa literatura. Através das ideias de dois escritores africanos, Chinua Achebe e Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, este artigo revisita a história das ideias desses autores em respeito à literatura africana e sua linguagem de escrita. Tratamos de perceber como dois autores da mesma geração, porém de locais diferentes, Nigéria e Quênia, respectivamente, pensaram a produção literária e sua função em África no período pós-colonial.Palavras-chave: Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)

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Foley, Andrew. "Contemporary South African literature." English Academy Review 18, no. 1 (2001): iii—v. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131750185310021.

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Okoro, Dike. "Contemporary African Literature: New Approaches." World Literature Today 86, no. 6 (2012): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2012.0125.

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Early, Gerald. "Teaching Contemporary African-American Literature." Callaloo 14, no. 2 (1991): 464. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2931648.

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Sims Bishop, Rudine. "Contemporary African American Children's Literature." Wasafiri 24, no. 4 (2009): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690050903205512.

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AMINU, Segun, Adedamola A. OGUNMOLA, and Kayode F. DAHUNSI. "Engaging Decolonisation: Migration, Memory and Trauma in Contemporary African Literature." Kampala International University Journal of Education Two, One (2022): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.59568/kjed-2022-2-1-003.

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The subject of decolonisation has been engaged by scholars such as Chinweizu (1987) and Ngugi (1986). However, this research centres around the contributions of contemporary African writers by interrogating the subjects of trauma, memory and migration in African literature. It analyses the transition of trauma from the colonial period till now using contemporary literary text. This discourse also examines the issues arising from migration in the writings of migrant writers. Further, the essay elucidates the issue of collective memory in African literature. It probes the effect of colonialism o

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Adell, Sandra, Olga Barrios, and Bernard W. Bell. "Contemporary Literature in the African Diaspora." African American Review 35, no. 2 (2001): 319. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2903266.

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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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HAYATOU, Guedeyi Yaeneta. "L’utopie à l’œuvre dans le roman contemporain subsaharien." Revue d’Études Africaines 1, no. 4 (2025): 151–67. https://doi.org/10.61585/pud-rea-v1n401.

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Experiencingsomething else, reinventing the culture of life, rethinking living together, rediscovering the taste for hope, opening up horizons, such seems to be the urgency in the Africa today. This article analyzes the deployment of African utopias in contemporary sub-Saharan novels. How do contemporary sub-Saharan African writers represent utopia? How does the content of their works convey a utopian vision? And to what extent can the utopias at work in contemporary African literature have a direct and significant impact on the evolution of African societies? Contemporary sub-Saharan African

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Mati, Jacob Mwathi. "Philanthropy in Contemporary Africa: A Review." Voluntaristics Review 1, no. 6 (2017): 1–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24054933-12340014.

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Despite the availability of a wide range of literature on what can be construed as philanthropic behavior in Africa, there is limited conceptual discussion on what constitutes philanthropy in African context(s). Yet, philanthropic behavior is a culturally rooted phenomenon manifesting in diverse forms, expressions, and models. This review contributes to a growing body of literature on conceptions and manifestations of African philanthropy. The review illustrates a complex plurality of actions that fall under cultures and practices of giving in Africa. These include the giving of money, time, k

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Damlègue Lare. "Postmodern Aesthetics in African Literature." Littera Aperta. International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 7, no. 8 (2023): 55–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.21071/ltap.v7i8.16191.

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This article examines contemporary critical positions in African literature that mark off perceptible shifts in focus from issues of primal postcolonialism to a more self-reflexive treatment of postmodernism in contemporary African literature. Contemporary African literary works, novels, and plays have become markedly self-reflexive in the way they rewrite one another and draw attention to their own functionality and fictionality. These works present stylistic and thematic departures that challenge the nationalist and realist trend of earlier writing. Creative works further depart from the tra

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John, Joseph, and Abdulrazak Gurnah. "Essays on African Writing 2: Contemporary Literature." World Literature Today 70, no. 3 (1996): 744. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40042281.

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Berner, R. L., and Bernth Lindfors. "Contemporary Black South African Literature: A Symposium." World Literature Today 60, no. 1 (1986): 168. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40141395.

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Syrotinski, Michael. "Globalization, mondialisation and the immonde in Contemporary Francophone African Literature." Paragraph 37, no. 2 (2014): 254–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2014.0125.

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Taking as its theoretical frame of reference Jean-Luc Nancy's distinction between globalization and mondialisation, this article explores the relationship between contemporary Africa, the ‘world’ and the ‘literary’. The discussion centres on a number of present-day African novelists, and looks in particular at a controversial recent text by the Cameroonian writer and critic, Patrice Nganang, who is inspired by the work of the well-known theorist of postcolonial Africa, Achille Mbembe. For both writers ‘Africa’, as a generic point of reference, is seen in terms of a certain genealogy of African

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Ezra, Kate, and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. "Contemporary African Art." African Arts 34, no. 1 (2001): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3337728.

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Owerka, Carolyn. "Contemporary African Art." African Arts 18, no. 2 (1985): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3336197.

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Thomas, Adèle, and Johann S. Schonken. "Culture-specific management and the African management movement: A critical review of the literature." South African Journal of Business Management 29, no. 2 (1998): 53–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v29i2.771.

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In recent years a school of thought has emerged in South Africa, which proposes that, along with the new political dispensation, African values and African culture should be incorporated into South African business practice. This so-called African management movement bases its assumptions and recommendations on various contemporary South African writers and also draws heavily on a theoretical model advocated by Lessem. This article argues that thinking in this field has not been empirically derived and contrasts Lessem's model to the more empirically-formulated one of Hofstede.

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Olaniyan, Tejumola. "African Literature in the Post-Global Age: Provocations on Field Commonsense." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 3, no. 3 (2016): 387–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2016.27.

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An exploration of African literary studies and what might be its most salient and informed tools of self-constitution and self-understanding in the contemporary moment. More than half a century after formal literary studies emerged in Africa, much of the field is still fixated with a deep suspicion of the true provenance of its own production. The paper theoretically distills some of the expressed or implied evaluative canons of belonging, explores their methods of application, and critically assesses their contemporary relevance—or even resonance. The goal is to arrive at what might be a most

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Bekele, Adane. "CHINA’S ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA: THE CASE OF ETHIOPIA." International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences 11, no. 1 (2020): 83–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.3534.

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China’s involvement in Africa has become one of the contentious topics in the devel-opment literature. The background of the study is that china-African relations can be grouped into dual phases thus: past relations and contemporary relations. Those phases are dissimilar, as past relations are categorized by solidarity against imperial-ism, while contemporary relations are characterized by economic relations. The study used a historical approach to analyze China’s resurgence into Africa and Ethiopia, a case study is used to examine the contemporary china-African relations. Secondary data were

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Hogwe, Fortune, and Handson Banda. "The nature of China’s role in development of Africa: the case of Zimbabwe." Problems and Perspectives in Management 15, no. 1 (2017): 237–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.15(1-1).2017.11.

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China’s involvement in Africa has become one of the contentious topics in the development literature. The background of the study is that Sino-African relations can be grouped into two phases thus: past relations and contemporary relations. The two phases are dissimilar, as past relations are categorized by solidarity against imperialism, while contemporary relations are characterized by economic relations. The study uses a historical approach to analyze China’s resurgence into Africa and Zimbabwe, a case study is used to examine the contemporary Sino-African relations. Secondary data were uti

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Matthews, Sally. "SHIFTING WHITE IDENTITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA: WHITE AFRICANNESS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE." Phronimon 16, no. 2 (2018): 112–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2413-3086/3821.

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The end of apartheid predictably caused something of an identity crisis for white South Africans. The sense of uncertainty about what it means to be white has led to much public debate about whiteness in South Africa, as well as a growing body of literature on whites in post-apartheid South Africa. One of the many responses to this need to rethink white identity has been the claim by some that white South Africans can be considered to be African or ought to begin to think of themselves as being African. This paper argues that whitesâ€™ assertion of an African identity does not necessarily assi

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Neumann, Birgit, and Gabriele Rippl. "Celebrating Afropolitan Identities? Contemporary African World Literatures in English." Anglia 135, no. 1 (2017): 159–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2017-0010.

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AbstractAgainst the background of today’s debate on Afropolitanism, this article discusses three contemporary African novels as instances of world literatures, focusing on their creative modelling of open, non-Eurocentric worlds in motion. Taking existing research in the field of world literature into account, we argue that the affective and effective uniqueness of world literatures only comes to the fore when considering their distinct power to creatively make worlds. We suggest understanding world literatures in terms of their capacity to create open, polycentric worlds, which enmesh diverse

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Stulov, Yuri V. "Contemporary African American Historical Novel." Literature of the Americas, no. 14 (2023): 75–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2023-14-75-99.

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The paper discusses the works of African American writers of the end of the 1960s — the end of the 2010s that address the historical past of African Americans and explores the traumatic experience of slavery and its consequences. The tragedy of people subjected to slavery as well as their masters who challenged the moral and ethical norms has remained the topical issue of contemporary African American historical novel. Pivotal for the development of the genre of African American historical novel were Jubilee by the outstanding writer and poet Margaret Walker and the non-fiction novel Roots by

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Tettenborn, E. "Melancholia as Resistance in Contemporary African American Literature." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 31, no. 3 (2006): 101–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/31.3.101.

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Hebert, Christopher R. "Ecological Trauma in Contemporary African Literature in English." Afrika Focus 38, no. 1 (2025): 218–25. https://doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-20250111.

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Abstract My dissertation examines the ways in which authors across the African continent represent ecological trauma in literature. By productively combining the concerns of ecocriticism with the ethical engagement of literary trauma theory, I arrive at a way of reading for ecological trauma while proposing key tenets of a green trauma theory. The corpus of literary texts I explore in this dissertation spans from 1950 to 2021 and includes canonical works such as Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard (2014 [1952]) and J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country (2014 [1976]), more contemporary n

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Anasiudu, Okwudiri. "Unveiling Melodies: Navigating Issues in African Oral Literature through Nkem Okoh's Preface to Oral Literature." Journal of Language and Literature Studies 4, no. 1 (2024): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.36312/jolls.v4i1.1705.

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The oral literature in Africa has not been taken seriously. The implication is that assertion is a fear of its death as many scholars in Africa have given it less attention. To address the gap and deepen the conversation, this study explored Nkem Okoh's Preface to Oral Literature shedding light on its perspective on the ongoing discussions about oral literature in Africa. The goal is to offer a detailed understanding and assessment of African oral literature, using this text as a case study. The analysis relies on postcolonial criticism and a qualitative research approach. Two key questions gu

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SOW, Dr Mahamadou Imrane. "Étude de la parenté culturelle entre l’Égypte ancienne et l’Afrique noire contemporaine à travers la momification." Afrosciences Antiquity Sunu Xalaat 1, no. 4 (2024): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.61585/pud-asasx-v1n401.

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Abstract. By browsing the funerary literature devoted to ancient Egypt and black Africa, we realize that the ancient Egyptians and the contemporary Black Africans did not perceive death as a definitive end. Indeed, in Egyptian-African eschatology, after death, the dead continue to live in the world of ancestors and divinities. In order for him to continue this new life, he must first be well prepared. Thus, in ancient Egypt as in contemporary black Africa, funeral rites are organized after the announcement of death and throughout the mourning period. There are several funeral rites but, in the

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Fioupou, Christiane. "African Literature and Theory: The Cart Before the Horse?" Commonwealth Essays and Studies 24, no. 2 (2002): 5–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/12488.

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Through various examples drawn from the works of Western and African writers and critics, this article illustrates how the contemporary literary scene tends to be dominated by trendy ‘theories’ and their attendant jargon: shuttling from continent to continent, they often migrate from France, ‘that hotbed of critical fads’, to the United States and Africa in ‘self-reproducing mazes’. Is it not time to go back to literature?

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Ducournau, Claire. "African Cultural Festivals and World Literature." Journal of World Literature 4, no. 2 (2019): 237–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00402006.

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Abstract In an era where cultural festivals multiply, so-called African festivals have spread in Africa, but also outside of the continent, in major cities as well as in little-known villages, for example in provincial France. What are some of their implications and effects in the case of francophone African literature? These events privilege a continental representation of literature, which often reveals itself as problematic when confronted with the complex geographies of the texts and authors represented at these festivals. Using cross-disciplinary methodology, this critical inquiry reads d

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Amponsem-Boateng, Cecilia, Jonathan Boakye-Yiadom, Ninon P. Amertil, and Augustine Kwakye Sampah. "Beyond the Numbers: Exploring the Landscape of Adolescent Hypertension in Contemporary Literature." Pan-African Journal of Health and Environmental Science 3, no. 1 (2024): 48–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.56893/ajhes2024v03i01.05.

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Abstract This literature review delves into the escalating global health concern regarding hypertension among adolescents, with a particular focus on the unique challenges faced by African youth. Initially associated with aging, hypertension is now prevalent among teenagers, necessitating a shift in focus and understanding of the global health landscape. This manuscript highlights the prevalence of hypertension among adolescents in Africa, the risk factors for hypertension among adolescents in Africa, the consequences of hypertension in adolescence, and interventional strategies.

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Johnson, Vernon D. "Indian South Africans as a middleman minority: Historical and contemporary perspectives." New Contree 89 (December 30, 2022): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.54146/newcontree/2022/89/03.

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Beginning in the 1940s, a literature on middleman minorities emerged to demystify the intermediary economic niche that Jews had occupied in medieval Europe. They were viewed as ethnic entrepreneurs occupying the economic status gap. In the 1960s, scholars began to apply middleman minority theory to colonial societies and to American society. More recently, Coloureds in South Africa have been identified as a middleman minority of another type: semi-privileged proletarians occupying an economic status gap in labour between whites and Africans. A political status gap between whites and Africans,

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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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Smith, Pamela J. Olubunmi, and Nadežda Obradović. "African Rhapsody: Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience." World Literature Today 69, no. 2 (1995): 414. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40151318.

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Shenoda, Matthew. "Verse Africa: The Malleable Poetics of Some Contemporary African Poets." World Literature Today 91, no. 5 (2017): 40–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2017.0032.

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Matthew Shenoda. "Verse Africa: The Malleable Poetics of Some Contemporary African Poets." World Literature Today 91, no. 5 (2017): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.7588/worllitetoda.91.5.0040.

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Robert, Lynn. "Book Review - Decolonising the Mind by Ngugi wa Thiong'o – Africa, A New Perspective." International Journal of Academic Research in Business, Arts & Science (IJARBAS) ® 5, no. 9 (2023): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8365008.

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<strong>Abstract</strong>: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's groundbreaking work, "Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature," challenges the dominant Eurocentric and American-centric narratives that have long overshadowed African voices and experiences. The essence of Thiong'o's book is shedding light on his impassioned call to decolonize African history, dismantle harmful stereotypes, and usher in a new perspective on the continent. "Decolonizing the Mind" is a potent call to action, urging readers to engage in the collective effort to libera

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Ayele Fafavi d’Almeida. "African Fiction-African Intricacies Nexus: A Bird’s Eye View." Proceeding of International Seminar Enrichment of Career by Knowledge of Language and Literature 11, no. 1 (2024): 38–50. https://doi.org/10.25139/eckll.v11i1.7697.

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I consider it a profound privilege and honor to be part of the remarkable ECKLL XI (11th Enrichment of Career by Knowledge of Language and Literature) event. I am delighted to share insights on “Contemporary Perspectives in Language, Literature, Education, and Culture”.

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Ugor, Paul. "Archiving Africa: Notes for the Contemporary African Filmmaker." Black Camera 14, no. 2 (2022): 144–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.14.2.09.

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Idowu, Babatunde M., Mercy C. Arua, Chiedozie P. Nwosu, and Felix M. Nwankwo. "Slavery in the Contemporary World." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 9, no. 8 (2021): 181–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol9.iss8.3274.

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The paper examines slavery in the contemporary world with focus on examination of modern slavery in Africa. It underscored factors promoting slavery in the modern world, trends of modern slavery, causes of modern slavery in Africa, and consequences of modern slavery in Africa. The Marxian conflict theory was used as a guide and a background upon which the paper was anchored. From the point of view of the theory and available literature reviewed, the paper observed that factors such as population explosion of the post second world war, rapid economic change and the incorporation of the third wo

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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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Adedeji, Femi. "Singing and Suffering in Africa A Study of Selected Relevant Texts of Nigerian Gospel Music." Matatu 40, no. 1 (2012): 411–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-040001027.

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A major aspect of African music which has often been underscored in Musicological studies and which undoubtedly is the most important to Africans, is the textual content. Its significance in African musicology is based on the fact that African music itself; whether traditional ethnic, folk, art or contemporary, is text-bound and besides, the issue of meaning 'what is a song saying?' is paramount to Africans, whereas to Westerners the musical elements are more important. This is why the textual content should be given more priority. In terms of the textual content, Nigerian gospel music, an Afr

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Tunca, Daria. "Contemporary African literature in English: Global locations, postcolonial identifications." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 53, no. 5 (2017): 617–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2017.1330321.

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Aissa, Mahdeb. "Extreme Contemporary African Literature: A Battleground Spanning Multiple Fronts." Science, Education and Innovations in the Context of Modern Problems 8, no. 6 (2025): 493–501. https://doi.org/10.56334/sei/8.6.51.

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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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Frankel, David. "Africa hoy: Obras de la Contemporary African Art Collection." African Arts 25, no. 4 (1992): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3336964.

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Osanyemi, Taiwo A. Stanley. "Entrenching Legendary and Mythic Resources in Modern African Literature." Scholars International Journal of Linguistics and Literature 6, no. 08 (2023): 361–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.36348/sijll.2023.v06i08.004.

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The study is premised upon the enormity and relevance of African myths and legends as congenial substance for the continuity of African culture and writing tradition. Existing literary engagements have focused on the usage of myths and legends in African literature, their consistent usage in fictional writings is aesthetically commendable, however, the modern days African writers appear to be delusive in this literary endeavor. This is the lacuna this paper seeks to fill by advocating for the reinventing and entrenching of mythical and legendary characters in contemporary and future African wr

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Akpome, Aghogho. "Imagining Africa’s futures in two Caine Prize-winning stories: Henrietta Rose-Innes’s “Poison” and NoViolet Bulawayo’s “Hitting Budapest”." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 55, no. 1 (2018): 96–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989418777840.

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Since its launch in 1999, the annual Caine Prize for African short stories has assumed a dominant position on the continent’s literary landscape. It has been hailed for the exposure it provides for its winners who are mostly budding writers. Expectedly, it has also attracted stinging criticism, especially for what is perceived to be its legitimization of stereotypical narratives about Africa. In this article, I examine how the two winning entries of 2008 and 2011 represent contemporary African realities and in so doing reinforce the growing significance of the prize and the short story genre t

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Sirayi, Mzo. "Contemporary African drama: the intercultural trend in South Africa." South African Journal of African Languages 22, no. 4 (2002): 249–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2002.10587514.

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T. Sindhu and Frederick Suresh. "Representation of Western and African Cultures: A Contextual Study of Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood." Creative Launcher 10, no. 1 (2025): 15–22. https://doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2025.10.1.02.

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Buchi Emecheta, an author originally from Nigeria, stands out as one of the most prominent female writers to have emerged from postcolonial Africa. Her work is renowned for its compelling depictions of women’s oppression and the conflicts arising from differing cultural values in contemporary Africa. Her well-known novel, such as The Joys of Motherhood, throws light on the injustice of traditional African social customs that oppress women, relegating them to a life of childbearing, servitude, and victimization. Emecheta is frequently acknowledged as a feminist author who highlights the signifi

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