African cinema was born in the 1960s. Afrique sur Seine (1955) by Paulin Vieyra, a brief film
dealing with African immigrants in Paris, could be taken as the preamble. Sembene …

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 …

DEVARAKSHANAM GOVINDEN w ARE LIVING in a period of momentous happenings in
South Africa. One of the most difficult and challenging areas in our communal life is related …

Abiola Irele, a prime witness to the birth of modern African literature, announced in one of
the earliest reviews of Achebe's first novel, Things Fall Apart 1 that what he thought then to …

SOC I 0 LOG Y 0 FLIT ERA TURE is still widely regarded as one of those" sciences" which
straddle the boundary lines of various disciplines, and which, while they are acknowledged …

In a review article published in the Journal of Southern African Studies, entitled"
Reimagining South African Literature"(2014), I argued that most of the attention to the …

I wish in opening to thank Prabhu, Esowanne, and Adeeko for the many windows that they
opened onto Calibrations with their remarks. However, rather than attempt a point-by-point …

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