Despite having been celebrated for autochthonous renewal, Sindiwe Magona's Mother to
Mother (1998) and Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness (2000) perpetuate ontological …

This study is informed by a womanist epistemology that recognizes the centrality of the
community in the ubuntu worldview. The womanist approach used here is applied within a …

This essay aims generally at examining the relationship between literary discourse and
nation-building. In specific terms, the aim has been to show the place of the post-apartheid …

Abstract The study of South African English literature written by black people in the post-
apartheid period has focused, among others, on the so-called Hillbrow novels of Phaswane …

This article focuses on the voices of protest by Uganda women writers against age-old
discriminative habits, and on the rebuttal made by women on questions of social and …

In their article" Nationhood and Women in Postcolonial African Literature" Elda Hungwe and
Chipo Hungwe, through an analysis of Pepetela's Mayombe, Achebe's Anthills of the …

This paper examines Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga in the light of
postcolonial concepts of essentialism and time. This study is motivated by the observation …

This article examines A Human Being Died that Night: A Story of Forgiveness by Pumla
Gobodo-Madikizela and Red Ink by Angela Makholwa, which are, respectively …

This essay explores the implosion of racial and religious harmony in the postapartheid
fiction of South African Indian writer Ahmed Essop, who problematizes the accommodation …

Underpinned by Leonard Praeg's notion of “ontological betrayal” in ubuntu as lived-praxis,
this article argues that post-apartheid “city writing” by Phaswane Mpe, K Sello Duiker …