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Prozesky, Maria. "African speculative fiction as Indigenous remembering: Contrasting stories by Jonathan Dotse and Masima Musodza." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 59, no. 1 (2022): 109–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v59i1.12727.

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How to understand what uniquely African contribution speculative fiction created by African authors makes is a vexed question. Drawing on concepts of the geopolitics of knowledge and locus of enunciation, from the South American tradition of decolonial theory, I argue that the term “Indigenous” must be retained to specify works that speak from epistemic locations within Indigenous African cultures. Such fiction does important remembering work by recovering, renewing, and extending Indigenous knowledge traditions and so claiming the right to imagine futures in Indigenous terms. This remembering

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Chingombe, Agrippa, Mandova Evans, and Simon Nenji. "Perception And Management of Human Fertility: A Shona Landscape." International Journal of Management and Sustainability 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.18488/journal.11/2012.1.1/11.1.1.12.

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The history of the Shona people has it formally and informally that fertility is an issue of major concern to the couple, family and community. However, very little literature has been documented concerning the Shona worldview of fertility, as well as its causes and effects. Most of the knowledge and belief systems exist in oral form to the extent that, there is a temptation to exaggerate and mystify as well as misrepresent the concept and its practice. This makes it difficult for outsiders and other non-practising Shona people to appreciate the value of this real life-long African belief syst

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Masinire, Sam, Benjamin Mudzanire, and Kudakwashe Mapetere. "Unpacking the Eurocentric Indictment of Pre-colonial African Socio-political Institutions in literary works; Pfumo Reropa and Gonawapotera." Greener Journal of Social Sciences 3, no. 2 (2013): 75–83. https://doi.org/10.15580/gjss.2013.2.011213366.

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This study examines the reliability and utility of Chakaipa and Zvarevashe’s old world novels;Pfumo Reropa and Gonawapotera respectively as historical novels. The novels were examined with the view to making an academic interrogation of how chieftainship, law courts and polygamy institutions which formed the soul of the Shona people’s culture in pre-colonial Zimbabwe are portrayed. An afro-centric analysis of the disparity between novels and other researches was done and it revealed a glaring distortion of the Shona people’s culture in pre-colonial Zimbabwe. Th

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Chekero, Tamuka, and Shannon Morreira. "Mutualism Despite Ostensible Difference: HuShamwari, Kuhanyisana, and Conviviality Between Shona Zimbabweans and Tsonga South Africans in Giyani, South Africa." Africa Spectrum 55, no. 1 (2020): 33–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002039720914311.

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This ethnographic study explores forms of mutuality and conviviality between Shona migrants from Zimbabwe and Tsonga-speaking South Africans living in Giyani, South Africa. To analyse these forms of mutuality, we draw on Southern African concepts rather than more conventional development or migration theory. We explore ways in which the Shona concept of hushamwari (translated as “friendship”) and the commensurate xiTsonga category of kuhanyisana (“to help each other to live”) allow for conviviality. Employing the concept of hushamwari enables us to move beyond binaries of kinship versus friend

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B, Mupini, Chaputsira S, and Sibanda Bk. "Survey on Speech to Text Modelling for the Shona Language." Survey on Speech to Text Modelling for the Shona Language 9, no. 1 (2024): 4. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10609671.

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Conversion of speech to text (STT) for various applications is of huge interest, which involves technological approaches which are innovative that should be applied to accommodate spoken languages in Africa. However, African countries are falling behind on the embracing of STT technologies, with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) having been done for popular East African languages. This has always kept transcription at a minimum and has also resulted in a  retard in the use of many African languages on a world- wide scale, with another problem being that a single  African language ma

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Mazuru, Michael, and Grand Nesbeth. "HIV and AIDS, Globalisation and the Shona Indigenous Knowledge Systems: the Impact of HIV and AIDS on the Shona Culture." Greener Journal of Social Sciences 3, no. 4 (2013): 171–79. https://doi.org/10.15580/gjss.2013.4.020713440.

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HIV and AIDS pandemic have wrecked havoc among humankind. They have caused a plethora of problems to the chagrin of humanity as humans fail to find a permanent panacea to the deadly diseases thereby prompting them to experiment in different ways in a bid to curtail their adverse impact on mankind. This has caused a review of different people’s cultural practices such as living styles, medicinal practices, beliefs and faiths, marriage practices among others as well as different people’s perceptions of the pandemic. In the struggle it has emerged that there are some western cultural

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Samanga, T., and V. M. Matiza. "Depiction of Shona marriage institution in Zimbabwe local television drama, Wenera Diamonds." Southern Africa Journal of Education, Science and Technology 5, no. 1 (2020): 53–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/sajest.v5i1.39824/sajest.2020.001.

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Marriage is a highly celebrated phenomenon among the African people. It is one of the important institutions among the Shona and Ndebele people in Zimbabwe as expressed in the saying ‘musha mukadzi’ and ‘umuzingumama’ (home is made by a woman) respectively. However with the coming of colonialism in Zimbabwe, marriage was not given the appropriate respect it deserves. This has given impetus to this paper where the researchers in the study through drama want to bring out the depiction of marriage institution in a post -independence television drama, Wenera Diamonds (2017). This paper therefore,

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Samanga, T., and V. M. Matiza. "Depiction of Shona marriage institution in Zimbabwe local television drama, Wenera Diamonds." Southern Africa Journal of Education, Science and Technology 5, no. 1 (2023): 53–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/sajest.v5i1.39824.

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Marriage is a highly celebrated phenomenon among the African people. It is one of the important institutions among the Shona and Ndebele people in Zimbabwe as expressed in the saying ‘musha mukadzi’ and ‘umuzingumama’ (home is made by a woman) respectively. However with the coming of colonialism in Zimbabwe, marriage was not given the appropriate respect it deserves. This has given impetus to this paper where the researchers in the study through drama want to bring out the depiction of marriage institution in a post -independence television drama, Wenera Diamonds (2017). This paper therefore,

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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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Nhengu, Collins, and Robert Matikiti. "Religion and Animals: Lessons for Christians Drawn from African Traditional Practices in Zimbabwe." Advances in Social Sciences and Management 3, no. 2 (2025): 65–77. https://doi.org/10.63002/assm.32.871.

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This article will argue that since time immemorial biological diversity has been central to human survival. Indigenous peoples have developed stages of technology and culture appropriate for different environments of climate, vegetation and animals. African traditional religion practices and promotes peace for both human and non-human animals. Crises for survival in the environment such as drought removed the animals that people were hunting and this threatened sustainable development. The symbiotic relationship between human beings and animals was clearly recorded in paintings. Indigenous peo

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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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Makaudze, Godwin. "TEACHER, BOOK AND COMPANION: THE ENVIRONMENT IN SHONA CHILDRENâ€™S LITERATURE." Commonwealth Youth and Development 13, no. 2 (2016): 100–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1727-7140/1150.

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Contemporary society has had running battles with citizens, trying to force them to be aware and appreciative of the importance of relating well with, and also safeguarding the environment. Modern ways of child socialisation seem in mentoring youngsters about the being, nature and significance of the environment (both natural and social) in life. Today, society it has largely become the duty of non-governmental organisations and law enforcement agents to educate and safeguard against the abuse of the social environment and the degradation, pollution and extinction of crucial facets of the natu

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Wakota, John. "Tanzanian Anglophone Fiction: A Survey." Utafiti 12, no. 1-2 (2017): 51–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26836408-0120102004.

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Tanzanian Anglophone fiction is extant and bustling. The invisibility of Tanzanian fiction in English is not due to the country’s inability to produce good- quality Anglophone novels but is related to the challenge in accessing the texts both within and outside Tanzania. Studies about East African fiction tend to ignore the contribution of Tanzanian Anglophone writers in the region. In Tanzania people know more about other canonical African novelists than their very own Anglophone writers. This article explores the emergence and development of Tanzanian Anglophone fiction, paying particular at

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Alexander, Josephine Olufunmilayo. "Exploring Nnedi Okorafor's decolonial turn in the Binti Trilogy." Image & Text, no. 37 (November 1, 2023): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2617-3255/2023/n37a29.

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Nnedi Okorafor is one of the best-known speculative fiction writers who has centred African perspectives and delinked from Western models. In her trilogy, Binti (2015), Binti Home (2017) and Binti the Night Masquerade (2017a), Okorafor disrupts the dominant white-masculine supremacist convention and traditions for a more diverse and inclusive narrative. In this article, I use decolonial thinking and the lens of Sankofa, a decolonial and African knowledge philosophy and worldview, to explore how Okorafor uses settings, characterisation, and ancient African traditional knowledge to achieve a dec

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Friday, Akporherhe, Udi Peter Oghenerioborue, and Esemedafe Emmanuel. "Folk Medical Practices and Treatments in African Fiction." Health Economics and Management Review 3, no. 4 (2022): 92–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/hem.2022.4-10.

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This paper examines the enactment of cultural medical practices in the narratives of African writers. It aims at promoting the application of folk medicines in addressing the health problems of patients as enacted in artistic productions of fiction writers. It will celebrate, propagate and preserve these approaches to preventive and curative medical practices, which are indigenous to the African people. The study will be beneficial to health caregivers, researchers, health educators, health agencies and policy formulators, who are determined to promote the cultural healthcare system in society

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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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Sibanda, Fortune. "Experiencing Sex via the 'Blue Tooth': Phenomenological Reflections on the Nature, Use and Impact of Mubobobo in Zimbabwe." Greener Journal of Social Sciences 3, no. 2 (2013): 84–90. https://doi.org/10.15580/gjss.2013.2.011313376.

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The belief in the existence of witchcraft and magic still runs strong in the African context. Because of this, early anthropologists, missionaries and colonial administrators tended to describe African indigenous religion and culture through misleading terminologies such as ‘primitive’, ‘superstition’, ‘magic’, ‘witchcraft’ and ‘fetish’. The westerners misunderstood and misinterpreted African religion and sought to pursue the philosophy of the centre to displace everything African. Nevertheless, good and bad heritage exists in African

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Siddique, Rumana. "“WO”man of the People:." Crossings: A Journal of English Studies 8 (August 1, 2017): 179–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.59817/cjes.v8i.143.

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Gendered assumptions of nationalism have been an integral part of liberation and post-liberation theory and fiction resulting in the construction of disempowered national identities for women in the modern African states. The narratives of idealization and mythologizing sketch women in the developing literary canvas as symbolic or biological figures who had no active social or political roles or voices. This paper focuses on how gender roles in national identity and nation-building have evolved in the works of the major male African writer Chinua Achebe. It examines the narratives that have re

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ALI, Imad OILAD. "The Postcolonial Unconscious in North African Migrant Fiction." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 6, no. 3 (2024): 466–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v6i3.1872.

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The impact of the postcolonial unconscious on North African migrant fiction has been extensively explored and revealed through both theoretical frameworks and literary practices throughout the postcolonial era. Scholars and writers alike have delved into how the psychological remnants of colonialism continue to influence the narratives, themes, and character development in this body of work. This ongoing examination highlights the deep-seated cultural and psychological legacies that shape the identities and experiences of both individuals and communities within North African migrant literature

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Nhemachena, Artwell. "Hakuna Mhou Inokumira Mhuru Isiri Yayo: Examining the Interface between the African Body and 21st Century Emergent Disruptive Technologies." Journal of Black Studies 52, no. 8 (2021): 864–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00219347211026012.

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Colonially depicted as a region distinctive for fables and fabrications, Africa has ever since not been allowed to reclaim anything original. Dispossessed of their original wealth, Africans have been forced to live in fabled and fabricated houses, eating fabled, and fabricated food—closer to animals. Similarly, dispossessed of their original human identities, Africans have been forced to adopt fabricated identities. With the 21st century not promising any return to original African human identities, Africans are set to be further nanotechnologically (using tiny nanoparticles) fabricated into c

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Lima, Monica. "African diaspora, interlanguages, and the unconscious." Psychotherapy & Politics International 22, no. 2 (2024): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/ppi.v22i2.06.

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This article examines Ana Maria Gonçalves’ novel Um Defeito de Cor (A Colour Defect), published in 2006; a fiction intertwined with history, memory, languages, and cultures of black Africans brought to Brazil, and describing mainly Salvador in the mid-19th century, developed within the gaps of the limited historical records of enslaved people. It analyses the subjective experiences of the protagonist, Kehinde, as she navigates multiple languages and cultures. It explores the unconscious impacts of exposure to a plurality of languages, informed by Lélia Gonzalez’s concept of ‘Pretoguês’, which

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Matiza, Vimbai Moreblessing, and Limukani T. Dube. "The Cultural and Historical Significance of Kalanga Place Names in Midlands Province of Zimbabwe." Journal of Law and Social Sciences 4, no. 2 (2020): 21–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.53974/unza.jlss.4.2.470.

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The discipline of onomastics is still at its infancy yet it constitutes a very important aspect of the day to day survival of a people in the society. Naming is part of oral tradition in African societies, people were never used to write and record things but rather their names. This means that names are a historical record that would carry some aspects of a people's way of life which include their history, beliefs and customs among others. On the same note, Midlands Province constitute of people from different backgrounds mainly Shona and Ndebele. Of interest to this research is the presence

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Kuznetsova, V. A. "Folklore Motifs in Contemporary Short Fiction of Mozambique." Cuadernos Iberoamericanos 11, no. 3 (2023): 131–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.46272/2409-3416-2023-11-3-131-145.

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The article explores the role of folklore tradition in the short prose of modern Mozambique. The symbiosis of the European cultural matrix, inseparable from the language in which the work is written, and the oral heritage of the Mozambican people is analyzed on the material of one of Aldino Muianga’s short stories. The story «Rosa Maria» is included in the author’s debut collection «Xitala Mati», the main material for which became the folklore «scary stories» about witchcraft and the living dead. And while in his later works Muianga focuses on acute social plots of the colonial past and post-c

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Rankine, Patrice D. "Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living in Paradox (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 50, no. 2 (2004): 483–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2004.0042.

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Dr. Mamona Yasmin Khan and Saima Riaz. "A Comparative Postcolonial Ecocritical Study of Selected African and South Asian Fiction." Indus Journal of Social Sciences 2, no. 2 (2024): 368–79. https://doi.org/10.59075/ijss.v2i2.237.

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Postcolonial Eco criticism is one of the rapidly emerging fields in literaturewhich is gaining the attention of writers and research scholars due to its focus onenvironmental justice. This study aims to compare the selected novels to examine theenvironmental problems of Africa and South Asia and their link with neocolonialism.The researcher relies on Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin’s (2010) framework ofPostcolonial Eco criticism for the analysis of the selected texts. The analysis, carriedout through textual analysis, revealed that the neocolonial economic activities of theWest are responsible

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Fall, Alioune Badara. "Distant homelands: Mobility, exile and (trans)nationalism in contemporary African fiction." Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture 14, no. 2 (2023): 197–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cjmc_00083_1.

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In this article, I argue that Bulawayo’s representation of precarity in her novel helps us decolonize representations of mobility in African literature. In Bulawayo’s novel, mobility undergirds the global presence of Africa and frames African identities in a cosmopolitan purview. Yet, the cultural trajectory of African migrants unveils practical realities within the nation state that shape expressions of cultural belonging in Afrodiasporic contexts. The novel’s presentation of poverty, abjection and dislocation limits the possibilities of an Afropolitan engagement with Darling’s experience in

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Hosseini, Maryam, and Hossein Pirnajmuddin. "Historiography in “Beginnings: Malcolm” by Amiri Baraka." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 40 (September 2014): 22–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.40.22.

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This article discusses Aimiri Baraka‘s concern with the history of black people in his poem ―Beginnings: Malcolm‖. The writers try to shed some light on the way Baraka‘s historiography challenges the white supremecist discourses through a rewriting of the African American past that blurs the boundaries of myth and history, fact and fiction, in a postmodern manner. It is argued that through the use of the central African myth of Esu/Elegba and drawing on traditions of Christianity and Western literature/culture, Baraka‘s poem offers an uncanny insight into the past.

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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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Cutter, Martha J. "When Black Lives Really Do Matter: Subverting Medical Racism through African-Diasporic Healing Rituals in Toni Morrison’s Fiction." MELUS 46, no. 4 (2021): 208–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac001.

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Abstract Toni Morrison spent much of her career detailing the unpredictability of African American existence within a racist society, with a special focus on patriarchal violence and medical apartheid against women’s bodies. Yet Morrison also limns out alternative modes of healing within a Black metacultural framework that moves between Nigeria, Brazil, and Egypt. As we move forward from the COVID-19 crisis, research has suggested that training more African American doctors, nurses, and physician assistants might curtail medical racism. Morrison’s fiction looks to a more basic level in which l

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Sibanda, Jabulani. "Naming for Sustainability: Interrogating the Efficacy and Sustainability of COVID-19 Metaphor and Nomenclature." Journal of Culture and Values in Education 6, no. 3 (2023): 228–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.46303/jcve.2023.30.

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Language matters for sustainability, and diseases’ names and attendant terminology should serve language users’ extant and future needs. The currency and pandemic proportion of COVID-19, and the viral or pervasive use of its attendant vocabulary and metaphors, makes it an apt case for interrogating the sustainability of its nomenclature. This paper interrogates the efficacy and sustainability of COVID-19 related English vocabulary and metaphors among the Shona speaking people, as a microcosm of their efficacy and sustainability among Bantu African language speakers. The paper is framed by the

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Harlin, Kate. ""One foot on the other side": Towards a Periodization of West African Spiritual Surrealism." College Literature 50, no. 2-3 (2023): 295–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lit.2023.a902220.

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Abstract: For both writers and scholars of African and diaspora literature, genre is a fraught concept. Western institutions, especially departments of English literature, have used the tool of genre to discipline Africana literatures and the people who create them, at once reducing conventional realism to a source of anthropological information and mischaracterizing realism with an indigenous or Nonwestern worldview as fantasy or "Magical Realism." "West African spiritual surrealism," as defined in this essay, offers a generic rubric that both attends to the literalization of Igbo and Yoruba

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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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Tracy, Kisha G. "Exploring and Teaching the Medieval in Afro/Africanfuturism." Pedagogy 25, no. 1 (2025): 111–22. https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-11463039.

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Abstract This article explores the benefits of introducing undergraduate students to the genre of Afro/Africanfuturism as an entryway for a survey of medieval Africa. By first exploring fiction written by and about African and African diasporic people, students can become oriented to both the unique aspects of African literature and the common elements of the human experience that exist across time periods and geography. The short story “Egoli” by Zimbabwean author T. L. Huchu is an example of Africanfuturism that incorporates medieval African history, literature, culture, language, and herita

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Martirosian, G. E. "AFRICANFUTURISM IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN LITERATURE: THE CASE OF ‘PET’ BY AKWAEKE EMEZI." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 32, no. 5 (2022): 1104–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2022-32-5-1104-1109.

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This article is devoted to the literary analysis of Akwaeke Emezi’s ‘Pet’, the novel, as an Africanfuturist artifact of the contemporary literature of the Nigerian diaspora in the United States. Africanfuturism is considered in both political and methodogical opposition to Afrofuturism, and is understood as a critical artistic method that, within the framework of Black science fiction, recounts an alternative version of the future of African people. The scientific article describes the features of the implementation of science fiction subgenres in the literature of Nigerians, residents of Nige

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Stulov, Yuri. "The Cityscape in the Contemporary African-American Urban Novel." Respectus Philologicus 24, no. 29 (2013): 65–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2013.24.29.5.

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This paper discusses the cityscape as an essential element of African American fiction. Since the time of Romanticism, the city has been regarded as the embodiment of evil forces which are alien to human nature and radiate fear and death. For decades, African-Americans have been isolated in the black ghettos of major American cities which were in many ways responsible for their personal growth or their failure. Often this failure is determined by their inability to find their bearings in a strange and alien world, which the city symbolizes. The world beyond the black ghetto is shown as brutal

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Tine, Pierre Malick. "Sentence Versus Redemption and the ‘Spiritual World’ in Osiris Rising, Fragments, Why Are We So Blest? KMT: In the House of Life by Ayi Kwei Armah and Mama Day by Gloria Naylor." South Asian Research Journal of Arts, Language and Literature 5, no. 04 (2023): 157–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.36346/sarjall.2023.v05i04.008.

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This paper attempts to evaluate the different characteristics in the spiritual world that act on human destiny in blacks ‘cosmology in Ayi Kwei Armah and Gloria Naylor’s fiction while justifying the awareness of black intellectuals in their different approaches to sentence and redemption for African cultural revival. It also exposes black people facing acculturation phenomena and the deconstruction of the ancestral home. However, it argues that the achievement of the struggle for African cultural revival will be possible if they take the initiative in finding out specific strategies that would

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Taringa, Nisbert, and Clifford Mushishi. "Mainline Christianity and Gender in Zimbabwe." Fieldwork in Religion 10, no. 2 (2016): 173–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/firn.v10i2.20267.

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This research aimed to find out the actual situation on the ground regarding what mainline Christianity is actually doing in confronting or conforming to biblical and cultural norms regarding the role and position of women in their denominations. It is based on six mainline churches. This field research reveals that it may not be enough to concentrate on gender in missionary religions such as Christianity, without paying attention to the base culture: African traditional religio-culture which informs most people who are now Christians. It also illuminates how the churches are actually acting t

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Kyobutungi Tumwesigye, Alice Jossy. "Young Adult Vulnerabilities in the Fiction of a Ugandan Woman Writer." Global Research in Higher Education 5, no. 1 (2022): p22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/grhe.v5n1p22.

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Questions of identity, power, autonomy and vulnerability carry a particular weight in cultures that have emerged from colonialism. Although few writers of fiction focus on the conflicts between African and European characters, a focus on power and marginalisation remains. One category in which this focus may be plainly seen is writing for and about young people. The study’s aim was to analyse young adult fiction written by a Ugandan female author, Barbara Kimenye to investigate this writing to find out how young adult vulnerability is depicted in literature. Although literature targeting young

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JOVOVIĆ, Tamara. "TONI MORRISON AND THE POSTMODERN SLAVE NARRATIVE." Lingua Montenegrina 18, no. 2 (2016): 199–212. https://doi.org/10.46584/lm.v18i2.524.

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This paper interprets Toni Morrison's novel Beloved as a neo-slave narrative. This postmodern novel has its predecessor in the slave narrative of the 18th and 19the century, and in the postmodern times it proves that it is as well a necessary critical discourse for considering the complicated African-American history and the institution of slavery. Slave narratives are of the highest importance for the preservation of African-American tradition, and as such, they were often neglected and marginalized. In the paper we will also show, through the theoretical framework of the most eminent postmod

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Hussein, Ameer, та Qassim Serhan. "استراتيجيات اللامركزية والتهجين عند شعب يوليو عند نادين جورديمر". Kufa Journal of Arts 1, № 59 (2024): 283–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.36317/kja/2024/v1.i59.14724.

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The dichotomy of centre vs periphery is a central idea in postcolonial theory and an important model to describe the relationship between colonizer and colonized. The aim of this paper is to examine the dichotomy of centre and periphery in postcolonial theory and how this dialectic is manifested in July's People by the South African prolific writer Nadine Gordimer. The African novel is an important off shoot of postcolonial novel since it documents the native`s struggle to restore their lost identities. South African novel written by white authors is a unique version of this trend of fiction s

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Rufaro, Chipo Phiri, Meh Nge Deris, and Suzanne Ayonghe Lum. "The impact of English-Shona translation of adverts on consumer attitudes in Zimbabwe." GPH-International Journal of Educational Research 7, no. 12 (2024): 15–31. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14566512.

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Abstract This study aims to explore and investigate translation procedures and how linguistic and cultural adaptation affects communication and marketing outcomes on consumer attitudes and behaviors in Zimbabwe. To answer pertinent questions, the study adopted a mixed-method research design, combining qualitative corpus analysis and quantitative data from questionnaires. Two different questionnaires were administered to different groups, and English-to-Shona translated adverts were collected. The study made use of participant observation and responses from both company representatives and cons

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Porter, Abioseh Michael. "Post-Civil War Literary Fiction: A Catalyst for Understanding Sierra Leone's Recent Past, Present, and Future." African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review 13, no. 1 (2023): 129–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/acp.2023.a900893.

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ABSTRACT: Until very recently, it seemed that a major difference between the literature of Sierra Leone and the literatures of its other West African neighbors was the absence, especially in prose fiction, of a sustained body of work by Sierra Leonean authors. This situation might seem mystifying to scholars of Sierra Leone's social and intellectual history because, after all, that country had played a major and pioneering role in the development and spreading of Western education in West Africa. This fundamental narrative of the inability of Sierra Leone's creative writers to produce high qua

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Koffi, Monfaye. "African Intellectuals and the Re-Making of Africa: A Post-Colonial Reading of Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fiction." International Journal of Geopolitics and Governance 4, no. 1 (2025): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.37284/ijgg.4.1.2607.

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Using post-colonial theory, this work has revealed that there are two types of intellectuals in the light of Ayi Kwei Armah’s fiction. The first type of intellectuals consists of these intellectuals simply referred to as parvenus academic. These intellectuals have nothing to offer. They are just concerned with their own interests bringing nothing as a contribution to their people as well as their society. Another type of intellectual defined by Armah is those who pave the way for development. These intellectuals are ready to sacrifice their life for the liberation of their people. They are dee

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Kumari, Dr. Lakshmi. "Exploring Gender Dynamics in Buchi Emecheta's Fiction Second Class Citizen: A Feminist Literary Analysis." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research 6, no. 21 (2025): 50–54. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15254659.

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<strong>Abstract:</strong> This paper's main objective is to investigate how geography and identity interact in current migration narratives found in contemporary African literature. The fight for autonomy, identity and self-definition is portrayed by African female authors. By creating new subjectivities that specify their positionality inside the metropole, writers transcend restricted patriarchal and hegemonic contexts. Buchi Emecheta writes about her encounters with the diaspora and the complex oppressive systems that impede her from achieving her goals. These systems include racism, class

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Msukwa, Martin K., Munyaradzi P. Mapingure, Jennifer M. Zech, et al. "Acceptability of Community-Based Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment for People Living with HIV in Zimbabwe." Healthcare 10, no. 1 (2022): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10010116.

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As Zimbabwe expands tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) for people living with HIV (PLHIV), the Ministry of Health and Child Care is considering making TPT more accessible to PLHIV via less-intensive differentiated service delivery models such as Community ART Refill Groups (CARGs). We designed a study to assess the feasibility and acceptability of integrating TPT into CARGs among key stakeholders, including CARG members, in Zimbabwe. We conducted 45 key informant interviews (KII) with policy makers, implementers, and CARG leaders; 16 focus group discussions (FGD) with 136 PLHIV in CARGs;

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Nirupa, Saikia. "The Post-Colonial Reality in Chinua Achebe’s Novels." International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies 03, no. 01 (2015): 88–94. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15907.

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The primary concern of Chinua Achebe, the recipient of the <em>Man Booker</em> <em>International Prize, 2007</em>, was his society, more precisely, the destiny of his people. As the fundamental feature of his novels was social realism, they served as an authentic record of the changing African world. Achebe, perhaps the most authentic literary voice from Africa, wrote not only to record the African, especially Nigerian, life but to analyse the reality experienced by the native people in different times and situations. In his view, the writer must be accountable to his society. To him it was ab

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Shrutika, Shrutika. "Fluid Identities and Memories in Rivers Solomon's The Deep." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 9, no. 2 (2024): 267–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.92.40.

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In recent years, there has been a noticeable shift in the realm of speculative fantasy fiction towards incorporating contemporary issues, particularly those concerning marginalized communities. Popular speculative fiction has become increasingly interested in exploring the experiences of marginalized people and how they make their way through a world that is frequently hostile to them. Rivers Solomon, in her 2019 novella, The Deep, skilfully explores the ongoing struggle of marginalized communities to reconcile their past with their present and future. Through this exploration, this study aims

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Sum, Robert Kipkoech, Justus Kizito Siboe Makokha, and Speranza Ndege. "Afrofuturism and Quest for Black Redemption in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix." East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (2022): 328–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajass.5.1.752.

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Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix follows the trajectory of many Afrofuturist texts in the exploration of the Black fortunes in the contested futuristic space. Using science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction, Okorafor appropriate futuristic space as a locale for negotiating the redemption of black bodies. She also contextualises the experiences of Africans or people of African origin in known world history. This, apparently, show that the futuristic space is neither detached from the past nor the contemporary period but rather it is an opportunity to map an optimistic future through

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Kambon, Ọbádélé Bakari, and Lwanga Songsore. "Fiction vs. Evidence: A Critical Review of Ataa Ayi Kwei Armah’s Wat Nt Shemsw and the Eurasian Rhetorical Ethic." African and Asian Studies 20, no. 1-2 (2021): 124–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341486.

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Abstract At the 2018 Outstanding African Thinkers Conference on Nna Chinweizu, attendees – the first author included – took a pledge that “In all branches of our lives, we must be capable of criticizing and of accepting criticism. But criticism, proof of the willingness of others to help us or of our willingness to help others, must be complemented by self-criticism – proof of our own willingness to help ourselves to improve our thoughts and our actions. This is a sacred principle and it is my sacred duty to apply and defend it at all costs” (Chinweizu 2018). In response to that call to action

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Acharya, Rajendra. "Rhetoric of Equating Nature and Native in Henry Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines." Bon Voyage 4, no. 1 (2019): 125–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bovo.v4i1.54187.

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The article has selected Henry Rider Haggard's adventure fiction, King Solomon's Mines, for its eco-feminist critical scrutiny. In so doing, it usurps the working definition of the term "ecofeminism" as a tool of inquiry. Then it demonstrates how the rhetoric of empire constructs and mirrors the African continent in general and people and animals in particular. The article primarily exposes the sinister colonial rhetoric of equating nature - land and animals - with women, thus site for exploration and exploitation opens up. The rhetoric becomes an instrument in defining and understanding them

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