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CHRISTOPHER, ADETUYI AJIBADE, and ADEOLA ADENIRAN. "Gender Frustration in the African Novel: Matters Arising." GVU Journal of Language, Literature and African Studies 1, no. 1 (2023): 56–67. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8025642.

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In many countries of the world especially in Africa, men have enjoyed patriarchal domination over their female counterparts. This subjugated position women are expected to maintain is reflected in the character representation of women in some male-authored African novels. In recent times however, the focus is gradually shifting from inter-gender conflict to intra-gender conflict as well as trans-sexualism in the African novel. This aspect of gender discourse has not enjoyed adequate scholarly attention. Womanism, Marxist Feminism and Intertextuality are adopted as the theoretical framework of

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PATRICIA, NGOZI ANYANWU. "Narrating the Japa Syndrome in the African Novel: A Post Colonial Evaluation of Selected Novels of Chika Unigwe and NoViolet Bulawayo." International Journal of Novel Research in Humanity and Social Sciences 11, no. 2 (2024): 40–49. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11083599.

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<strong>Abstract:</strong> The recent pattern of desperate migration of many Africans across international borders for survival generally known as <em>Japa</em> in Nigerian parlance has become worrisome. This is not only due to the vacuum created by the departure of these future leaders from their respective African nations, but also because of the inhumanity and annihilation inherent in this movement. The everyday predicaments of these Africans who embark on this journey of uncertainty to the diaspora are vividly portrayed in many contemporary African novels, including the novels of Chika Uni

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Agho, Jude. "The African Novel and Conflict Management." CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics 4 (October 10, 2022): 189–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.56907/g3tr8t7s.

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The novel is a very distinct sub-genre of literature, in fact, the most popular in terms of use of all the literary forms in African literature. The form is not only graphic and elastic in deployment to reflect and portray conflict situations among people, classes and institutions involved in political and syndicalist contestations, for example, it is the most encyclopaedic in recording momentous instances of revolts and revolution arising from conflicts among classes and peoples. Thus, literature has been and still is a handy tool to African writers in portraying the colonial and neocolonial

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Mwetu, Lester, Ahmed Osman Warfa, and Fatha Abdirahman. "RECONFIGURATION OF WOMEN IN THE AFRICAN NOVEL." Global Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 03, no. 12 (2024): 14–24. https://doi.org/10.55640/gjhss/volume03issue12-03.

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The oppression of women has been a salient feature of societies across the globe. Consequently, there has been a continuous effort to write liberation literature to emancipate women from the yoke of patriarchal thought. This paper examines the gender politics articulated by selected authors. The novels have been identified to survey the plight of women in three geographical locations; East, West and South Africa. The aim of this research is to reveal that these writers (re)place the selected female characters in an attempt to subvert the historical conditions of women in African societies. The

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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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Casimir, Komenan. "Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Seminal Novel in African Literature." Studies in Linguistics and Literature 4, no. 3 (2020): p55. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sll.v4n3p55.

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Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is an influential novel in African literature for three reasons. First, it is a novel meant to promote African culture; second, it is a narrative about where things went wrong with Africans; and third, it is a prose text which contributed to Achebe’s worldwide recognition. It contains Achebe’s rejection of the degrading representation of Africans by European writers, and fosters Africa’s traditional values and humanism. The excesses of Igbo customs led the protagonist to flagrant misuse of power. The novel’s scriptural innovations bring fame to Achebe who is consider

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Feng, Yuanqing, Michael A. McQuillan, and Sarah A. Tishkoff. "Evolutionary genetics of skin pigmentation in African populations." Human Molecular Genetics 30, R1 (2021): R88—R97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddab007.

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Abstract Skin color is a highly heritable human trait, and global variation in skin pigmentation has been shaped by natural selection, migration and admixture. Ethnically diverse African populations harbor extremely high levels of genetic and phenotypic diversity, and skin pigmentation varies widely across Africa. Recent genome-wide genetic studies of skin pigmentation in African populations have advanced our understanding of pigmentation biology and human evolutionary history. For example, novel roles in skin pigmentation for loci near MFSD12 and DDB1 have recently been identified in African

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Pasi, Juliet Sylvia, and Josephine Olufunmilayo Alexander. "Problematizing Minor Transnational Identities And Patterns Of Othering In Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing." Forum for Modern Language Studies 56, no. 1 (2020): 4–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqz061.

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Abstract In her debut novel, Zebra Crossing, Meg Vandermerwe privileges the voice of Chipo Nyamubaya, an albino girl from Zimbabwe, to capture the gripping and tragic experiences of African immigrants in South Africa. This article problematizes the notion of minor transnational identities by interrogating the relationships between South Africans and those they refer to as outsiders, and the relationship between the African immigrants themselves vis-à-vis culturally held beliefs about albinos and LGBTs. In the process, we demonstrate the patterns of the idea of Otherness brought about by racism

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Montle, Malesela Eddie. "Scrutinising Eurocentric stereotypes against Afrocentric underpinnings of beauty through Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut." Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies 11, no. 1 (2022): 34–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/rainbow.v11i1.53318.

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This paper has probed into stereotypical attitudes towards Afrocentric underpinnings of beauty through Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut. The genesis of these stereotypes against African beauty could be traced from the colonisation of the African continent. It is the interface between Africa and the West that engendered a shift of identities, which resulted in many Afrocentric depictions assimilated d by Western influence. Despite the decolonisation attempts, the Eurocentric notions that had defined Africa during the colonial period persist in galvanising stereotypes that marginalise Africans, especiall

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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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Thamarai, Selvi, and Arputha Malar Aruna. "The Art of Characterization in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease." ISSRA Journal of Education, Linguistics and Literature 01, no. 01 (2021): 4–10. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5569083.

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Chinua Achebe is considered to be the best novelist even today in African literature. The subject in his novels is the tragic consequence of the African encounter with Europe. This is the main theme of his novels. His novels deal with the social and psychological conflicts created by the incursion of the Whiteman and his culture into the hitherto self-contained world of African society, and the disarray in the African consciousness. His subject also deals with individuals. Achebe’s writing always reflects three essential qualities. The first one is the influence of the colonialism at bot

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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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Edward Montle, Malesela. "Decolonising African Cultural Identity in Es’kia Mphahlele’s Chirundu : A literary Appreciation." Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies 1, no. 3 (2020): 33–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2020/v1n3a2.

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Though Africans are striving to re-define and re-construct themselves through re-asserting their eroded African cultural identity, this appears to be a mammoth, almost insurmountable task. It remains a nuanced terrain because, on the one hand, there is material benefit from being bedfellows with the neocolonial forces while on the other hand, there is hardship which is meted out against the proponents of African decolonisation, particularly the quintessential ones. Sanctions are one of the austerity measures which the neo-colonial powers use to suppress those Africans who genuinely want to adv

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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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Beuving, J. Joost. "ETHNOGRAPHIES OF MARGINALITY." Africa 86, no. 1 (2016): 162–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972015000960.

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Africanist discourse today displays a strong, widespread and growing sense of optimism about Africa's economic future. After decades of decline and stagnation in which Africa found itself reduced to the margins of the global economic stage, upbeat Afro-optimism seems fully justified. One only needs to consider African economies' solid growth rates, the emergence of new export markets earning unprecedented quantities of foreign exchange, and the rise of novel groups such as innovative African entrepreneurs (Taylor 2012) and urban-based middle classes (Simone 2004). Ironically, Africa's bright f

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Ohia, Ben-Fred. "African Literature and The Protest Novel: Neo-Nationalism in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not Child." British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies 4, no. 6 (2023): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/bjmas.2022.0343.

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Every literary writer belongs to a particular society; he writes to reflect the conditions of that society. Therefore, African literature captures the African temperament. This paper attempts an analysis of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not Child. Colonisation turns people into objects in order for the colonialists to facilitate their manipulation and the handing over power to Africans with a hope that this group of Africans will change the cause of events. The inability of these leaders to perform to expectation leading to a period of transition from colonialism to neo-colonialism necessitated the

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Hadiyanto. "REPRESENTASI KOLONISASI TERHADAP MASYARAKAT KULIT HITAM AFRIKA DALAM NOVEL THINGS FALL APART KARYA CHINUA ACHEBE." HUMANIKA 19, no. 1 (2016): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/humanika.19.1.20-34.

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Abstract This article discusses white-skinned race colonization and its impacts on African black-skinned race tribal society and culture in African Anglophone novel Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe. The approach used in this research is post-colonial approach by using post-colonial theory to analyze phenomena as well as the implication of the colonizer and the colonized relationship. The result of this research indicates that the coming of white-skinned race colonialists in African Ibo tribe community with their colonization and cultural imperialism is implemented with varied strateg

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Ejike, Cyril Emeka. "COVID-19 and Other Prevalent Diseases in Africa: A Pragmatic Approach." Conatus 6, no. 1 (2021): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/cjp.24650.

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The aim of this paper is to propose that the development and legitimization of African knowledge and validation systems on a pragmatic basis, is an efficient and effective means of responding to a myriad of health problems plaguing Africans, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic. Whenever there is a novel disease outbreak, the norm is to wait for the development of scientifically proven vaccines for its treatment. However, the scientific validation of drugs is a rigorous and lengthy process, thereby inappropriate for dealing with health emergencies like the COVID-19 outbreak. The alarming rapidit

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King, Adele, and Simon Gikandi. "Reading the African Novel." World Literature Today 62, no. 4 (1988): 714. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40144744.

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Julien, Eileen, and Simon Gikandi. "Reading the African Novel." International Journal of African Historical Studies 22, no. 2 (1989): 360. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220071.

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INNES, C. L. "Reading the African Novel." African Affairs 88, no. 350 (1989): 123–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098126.

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OGEDE, ODE. "TEACHING THE AFRICAN NOVEL." Matatu 41, no. 1 (2013): 518–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401209151_031.

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Hadiyanto. "Kolonialisasi Inggris dan Pengaruhnya Terhadap Masyarakat Tradisional Afrika dalam Novel Things Fall Apart Karya Chinua Achebe." Lensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya 2, no. 2 (2012): 153–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.26714/lensa.2.2.2012.153-185.

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This paper discusses England colonization and its impacts on African tribal culture in African Anglophone novel Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe. The approach used in this research is post-colonial approach by using post-colonial theory to analyze phenomena as well as implication of the colonizer and the colonized relationship. The result of this research indicates that the coming of England colonialists in African Ibo tribe community with their colonization and cultural imperialism is implemented with varied strategies. Those strategies are proven effectively in strengthening Englan

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Wright, Laura. ""Go Back to Africa": Afrocentrism, the 2016 NFL Protests, and Ryan Coogler's 2018 Black." Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies (ISSN 2455 6564) Vol. IV, Issue 1 (January 31, 2019): 45–72. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2554496.

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The concept of an imagined homogenizing shared cultural heritage worked to further the 19th Century “back to Africa” movement, which urged members of the African American diaspora to return to ancestral homelands in Africa (to which, because of their ancestral forced removal during slavery, they had no access), even as that narrative flattened conceptions of African identity to a mythical ideal. Further, the production of mythic fictional Africas – whether negative, as those recently constructed by Donald Trump’s assertion that African nations are “shithole”

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Khalaf, Sarab Husian, and Rudaina Abdulrazzaq M. Saeed. "A FOUCAULTIAN READING OF RESISTANCE IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S NOVEL "THINGS FALL APART "." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES 7, no. 2 (2023): 306–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/lang.7.2.15.

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The field of cultural, human and literature has taken the entire study of the concept of resistance, as this concept is linked to the French theorist Michel Foucault. He asserts that power is what caused us to be in the place where we are now. There is no separation between resistance and power, both come through the other. Chinua Achebe is the greatest and most famous writer in African literature. He attempts to find an escape from the colonial turn that invaded African literature, The goal of Achebe's writings is to enable the African people to have pride in their history. His novel "Things

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Quansah, Emmanuel, and Thomas K. Karikari. "Motor Neuron Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Need for More Population-Based Studies." BioMed Research International 2015 (2015): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/298409.

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Motor neuron diseases (MNDs) are devastating neurological diseases that are characterised by gradual degeneration and death of motor neurons. Major types of MNDs include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). These diseases are incurable, with limited disease-modifying treatment options. In order to improve MND-based biomedical research, drug development, and clinical care, population-based studies will be important. These studies, especially among less-studied populations, might identify novel factors controlling disease susceptibility and resistance. To evalua

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Francis, Ibe Mogu. "Beyond the Igbo Cosmos: Achebe's Things Fall Apart as a Cross- Cultural Novel." NDỤÑỌDE: Calabar Journal of The Humanities 13, no. 1 (2018): 40–47. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1467438.

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Abstract: Much, very much has been written about Chinua Achebe's premier novel, Things fall Apart (1958). This paper establishes that Things Fall Apart which was intended to counter the depiction of Black Africa in Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson and other texts written by European Colonial and Eurocentric authors, has now defied the expectations of even the most adept optimists in terms of its cultural and economic imports. This essay further reveals that Things Fall Apart is not only consistently popular among Igbo students and scholars, it is very popular with other Nigerian and African

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Van der Elst, J. "Regional and current problems in South Africa and their impact on literature with remarks on the evaluation of the Afrikaans Novel." Literator 6, no. 1 (1985): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v6i1.893.

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My paper centres round a specific situation and its impact on literature in South Africa with special reference to the modern novel in the Afrikaans language and the literary evaluation of the novel. This does not mean that I exclude references to the other genres, poetry and dram a and to literatures in other languages within the South African context. Many of you might know but to clarify I would like to point out that I refer to Afrikaans as the Germanic language originating from the 17th century Dutch mother tongue of approximately 3 ½ million South Africans.

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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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Kangira, Jairos. "Editorial note." Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies 1, no. 3 (2020): 5–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2020/v1n3a0.

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The themes of colonisation and decolonisation dominate in this issue of JoALLS. The colonisation of African communities by European forces was so inhuman and brutal that it left skeletons of African people littered in affected areas on the continent. The trails of murder, massacre, plunder and displacement of defenceless and innocent Africans by marauding, bloodthirsty colonialists are unsavory, heart-rending and disgusting. The crucial role literature plays in documenting the trials and tribulations of Africans cannot be overemphasized. The historical novel and (auto) biography have always be

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Cogeanu, Oana. "Inscriptions on the African Body: Alice Walker’s 'Possessing the Secret of Joy'." Linguaculture 2, no. 2 (2011): 55–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2011-2-2-263.

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The final novel of Alice Walker’s African trilogy, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), stands out within Walker’s writing as the literary text that comes closest to political activism. This paper aims at analyzing the inscription of/on the African woman’s body in Possessing the Secret of Joy by close reading the major episodes in the novel related to the experience of female circumcision in Africa and the search for psychological healing in Europe and the United States. The analysis suggests that Alice Walker constructs two archetypes of female complicity with patriarchy, “the betraying mothe

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Baskota, Dhananjaya. "Subalternity in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness." Damak Campus Journal 13, no. 1 (2024): 15–24. https://doi.org/10.3126/dcj.v13i1.74477.

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Human civilization has a long history about power relation among the individuals and the societies. Power relations prominently try to 'other' them who are powerless, voiceless, socially backwards, culturally isolated and economically exploited. 'This paper presents how European elites make 'other' to the native Africans. The process of 'othering' establishes the idea of subalternity;which is reflected through the African natives in Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness.The native Africans are voiceless and put beyond the center of conversations among the non-African characters. The way of k

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Montle, Malesela Edward. "Genesis African-Identity-Crisis through Wole Soyinka’s Death and King’s Horseman." NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching 12, no. 2 (2021): 158–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/nobel.2021.12.2.158-167.

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The main thrust of this study was to explore the genesis of the African identity-crisis from the (pre) colonial times to the post-colonial age. The colonialists revolutionized the cultural backdrop of Africa and imposed European values upon African natives. This affected the social, economic, and political identities in Africa. Today, the imagination of identity-crisis in the African continent is appalling. Notwithstanding her potential to grow socio-economically and politically due to the dispensation of emancipation, Africa is still at the periphery of identity-crisis. This qualitative paper

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Dr., Mexan Serge EPOUNDA. "Cultural Dynamism in Nigeria with Reference to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 05, no. 04 (2022): 1404–11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6463202.

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This article aims at raising the different aspects of life of Nigerian people prior independence and exalting inheritance or profit this people has gained in return after their encounter with the white man. It is certain that the issue of colonization has been the concern of many African and even non-African writers. In fact, colonization has disrupted the socio-economic and political structures and replaced traditional values by another system of values that are not suitable for African customs. From the image the white man has painted Africans, colonization does not acknowledge the existence

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Alharbi, Aisha. "Unveiling the Depths of the African Woman Experience: An Africana Womanist Interpretation of Sefi Atta's Swallow." International Journal of Literature Studies 4, no. 1 (2024): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijts.2024.4.1.4.

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This study is an attempt to analyse Sefi Atta's novel Swallow (2010), from an Africana womanist perspective. The objective is to contribute a deeper and more unique understanding of the African woman’s experience. Additionally, it seeks to challenge the superficial labelling of S. Atta as merely a feminist, based on Western standards. The research adequately demonstrates the key features of Africana womanism that are effectively integrated by the female protagonists in Swallow. The traits of these womanists encompass authenticity, true affiliation via sisterhood, compatibility with males and a

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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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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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Kubata, Bruno Kilunga, Michael Duszenko, Zakayi Kabututu та ін. "Identification of a Novel Prostaglandin F2α Synthase in Trypanosoma brucei". Journal of Experimental Medicine 192, № 9 (2000): 1327–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.192.9.1327.

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Members of the genus Trypanosoma cause African trypanosomiasis in humans and animals in Africa. Infection of mammals by African trypanosomes is characterized by an upregulation of prostaglandin (PG) production in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid. These metabolites of arachidonic acid (AA) may, in part, be responsible for symptoms such as fever, headache, immunosuppression, deep muscle hyperaesthesia, miscarriage, ovarian dysfunction, sleepiness, and other symptoms observed in patients with chronic African trypanosomiasis. Here, we show that the protozoan parasite T. brucei is involved in PG

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Olugunle, Wole. "The Rejection of Men’s Exploitation by Fellow Men: A Literary Approach in Les Bouts De Bois De Dieu." International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies 8, no. 1 (2020): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.8n.1p.21.

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The scramble for the partitioning of Africa during the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 in Germany created the ground for the colonialists to make Africans the victims of social alienation and mental dehumanization during that era of colonialism. Thus, African writers that flayed these social and economic vices armed themselves with different approaches both theoretically and stylistically, for the purpose of engagement littéraire. Reading the Senegalese Sembène Ousmane’s Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu (1960), published few days after the independence of most of the African countries, this paper extrap

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Bah, Adama. "Power as a Means of Corruption in African Society: A Study of Paul Tiyambe Zeleza’s Smouldering Charcoal." Shanlax International Journal of English 13, no. 1 (2024): 36–57. https://doi.org/10.34293/english.v13i1.8214.

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Power is a common aspect of political systems worldwide, but in Africa, the concept of power is often ambivalent, with corruption often causing hardship rather than improving living conditions. The interplay of power and corruption in modern African societies poses significant challenges to governance, economic growth, and social cohesion. This issue is more prevalent in African countries, where people are oppressed and their rights are violated. The study aims to provide a clearer understanding of the problem and its implications for African societies, highlighting the oppressive nature of pe

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Yoder, Lauren W., and Mildred Mortimer. "Journeys through the African Novel." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 28, no. 1 (1994): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/485858.

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Iloh, Ngozi Obiajulum. "Une Étude critique de Madame la présidente de Fatou Fanny-Cissé." Neohelicon 48, no. 1 (2021): 403–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11059-020-00573-8.

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AbstractThis article discusses the Ivorian writer, Fatou Fanny-Cissé’s novel, Madame la présidente, published in 2015. The novel offers a fundamental critique of African democracy and the contemporary politics in Africa. The Republic of Louma is an imaginary country that show-cases electoral crises in an imaginary contemporary continent. The plot about a female dictator has a strong feminist inclination. The feminisation of presidential elections is a caricature of the dictatorial tendencies of African leaders. The themes discussed are true to contemporary political events in Africa as well as

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Rabbani, Golam. "Discrimination in “the City”: Race, Class, and Gender in Toni Morrison’s Jazz." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 10, no. 5 (2019): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.10n.5p.128.

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Toni Morrison, the African American Nobel laureate author, explores the realities where African American women face multiple discriminations in her novel Jazz (1992). This article, following the qualitative method on the bibliographic study, examines the discriminations entailing race, class, and gender and presents Harlem as a discriminatory space in the novel. Jazz narrates the struggles of African American women who settled in Harlem in the early twentieth-century. Haunted by the memories of slavery, the female African American characters in the novel find themselves subjugated in the socie

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Justina N., Edokpayi. "Lexico-semantic Features as Creative/Stylistic Strategies in Joseph Edoki’s The Upward Path." International Journal of World Policy and Development Studies, no. 62 (February 15, 2020): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/ijwpds.62.19.27.

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This study examines and explicates the lexico-semantic parameters, which Joseph Edoki deploys to convey his themes in The Upward Path, his second novel. Edoki is a contemporary Nigerian novelist who is preoccupied with the socio-political problems in Africa with the hope of a brighter future. The novel is the story of Mr. Gaga, a Rhwandan American PhD student, on a fact finding mission in Savannah, an African country, for his Thesis entitled ‘’ Why Africa is Underdeveloped’’. For failing to portray Africa in line with the negative views about the continent in his proposal, Gaga’s supervisor re

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Adejumo, Adewale Ezekiel, Dennis Adebayo Akindutire, and Akintunde Olaoluwa Akintaro. "A Polemic of Mannerpunk in the Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero." Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 13, no. 4 (2025): 38–47. https://doi.org/10.37745/gjahss.2013/vol13n43847.

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Literature has been a work of imagination with little attention paid to Mannerpunk as a sub-genre in prose fiction that suggests status, conversation, ethics, aesthetics and adherence to moral standards that are otherwise known as etiquette or principle of decorum which are the set rules for any society to live peacefully which Africans are inclusive, loving to live life devoid of dystopia. Previous scholarly interests in Nawal El-Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero have viewed the novel from the prism of different variants of feminism, ranging from pure feminism, womanism, and radical African femin

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Ako Odoi, David, and Ernest Kwesi Klu. "Ethnography Within an Autobiographical Portrait: The Case of Camara Laye’s the African Child." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 7, no. 4 (2018): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.7n.4p.87.

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Africa as a continent has many ethnic groups. For most non-Africans, Africa is a homogenous society and therefore all African societies and cultures are lumped together. There may be many similarities between cultures. However, the subtleties in culture for each group are not obvious to people outside Africa and most often they are ignored. Early novelists from Africa like Camara Laye have sought to project their own unique stories and give an expose on what and why their ethnic group puts up certain practices. In these stories however, the artist also invariably writes the history or ethnogra

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Ninčetović, Nataša. "Linking the African Past and Present: Corrective Representation of Women in Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor Stones." Društvene i humanističke studije (Online) 10, no. 1(27) (2025): 235–48. https://doi.org/10.51558/2490-3647.2025.10.1.235.

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Starting from the observation that African women are often underrepresented and misrepresented in both African male literature and Western fiction, this paper offers evidence that Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor Stones (2006) aims at inscribing African women into history by focusing on their experiences. Forna’s debut novel not only challenges gender stereotyping but also deals with themes of women’s position and marriage in past and present West African society. A close reading of the novel suggests that whereas the female principle was valued in Africa’s pre-colonial era, in colonial Africa women

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Mabana, Kahiudi Claver. "Léopold S. Senghor, Birago Diop et Chinua Achebe: Maîtres de la parole." Matatu 33, no. 1 (2006): 223–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-033001031.

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Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), Birago Diop (1906–1989) and Chinua Achebe (1931–) were among the first African intellectuals to make their fellow Africans aware of the riches of their oral literature and proud of their cultural treasures. The two francophone writers from Senegal were major figures of the Négritude movement, while the anglophone Nigerian became famous with , the best-known African novel of the last century. The aim of this essay is to show the importance of the impact of African orature in the creative writing of African authors despite the ostensible differences in their co

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Salami, Minna. "African Feminist Individuation." Feminist Formations 36, no. 3 (2024): 17–32. https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2024.a950658.

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Abstract: This essay explores the relevance of Jungian individuation within African feminist political philosophy. It examines the rise of populism in Africa and the persistent debate between individualism and communitarianism, which often distracts from addressing patriarchy. By integrating Jungian individuation with African feminism and Yoruba cosmology, a novel approach is proposed to transcend this dualism. The essay critiques the rise of Populist Anti-Western Nativism (PAWN), highlighting its detrimental impact on African feminist efforts and its promotion of reactionary, patriarchal, and

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Esposito, Elena. "The Side Effects of Immunity: Malaria and African Slavery in the United States." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14, no. 3 (2022): 290–328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.20190372.

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This paper documents the role of malaria in the diffusion of African slavery in the United States. The novel empirical evidence reveals that the introduction of malaria triggered a demand for malaria-resistant labor, which led to a massive expansion of African enslaved workers in the more malaria-infested areas. Further results document that among African slaves, more malaria-resistant individuals—i.e., those born in the most malaria-ridden regions of Africa—commanded significantly higher prices. (JEL I12, J23, J47, N31, N37, N91)

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