In 2015, South African university and college students, galvanised by the recent successes
of the country-wide# RhodesMustFall movement, which demanded the removal of a statue …

About a year ago Biodun Jeyifo told me of a conversation he had with one of his Ph. D.
students. She had come to his office in a panic, informing him that her advisor had told her …

Degree: D. Ed. DegreeYear: 1998 Institute: University of South Africa (South Africa) The
colonial history of South Africa and its legacy of cultural and linguistic domination has …

I have two main thoughts on the challenge of the global in the field of African studies, both of
which stem from my own disciplinary position as a comparatist working on African literatures …

This article is an attempt to bring decolonial strands of critical thinking to
African/Zimbabwean literary tradition. It explores how Memory Chirere uses the short story …

A year after the much-celebrated 'Conference of African Writers of English Expression',
which took place in Uganda in 1962, Obiajunwa Wali published a scathing article,'The Dead …

The emergence of African Literature as a serious discipline has been, like the emergence of
the African nations, a struggle for independence and autonomy. First, the question of recog …

University of Cape Town n the prefatory remarks to his new book, The African Imagination,
Abiola Irele traces the trajectory of his professional career from his initial loca-tion in Africa to …

Although anti-colonial readings of history, as well as “people's” histories (see Anderson
2007, Spivak 1996, Rodney 1972, Zinn 1999, Parenti 2003, Kempf 2009, and many others) …

African Studies is characterised by intellectual contestations and epistemic struggles. These
have become accentuated in the context of the current resurgent and insurgent …