On decolonising teaching practices, not just the syllabus
An African literature lecturer shares how embodied teaching can help students feel that their lives and stories matter.
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How women’s untold histories shaped South Africa’s national poet
A study of the late Keorapetse Kgositsile shows how the poet influenced black American culture. It also shows how his mother and his grandmother’s oral traditions in turn influenced him.
Black Lives Matter but slavery isn’t our only narrative
Black Lives Matter brings the slavery story into the present in America – but it leaves Africa stuck in the past.
Black and queer women invite the Black Atlantic into the 21st century
A group of leading black, queer and feminist academics held a colloquium to reconsider a seminal blackness studies text – offering new ways of thinking about the decolonial project.
Nigeria’s queer literature offers a new way of looking at blackness
Despite Nigeria’s draconian laws against homosexuality, authors like the award-winning Akwaekwe Emezi are important new voices that add complexity to the question of identity.
African crime and detective fiction reshapes the genre
Crime fiction is the second most popular literary genre in Africa after romance. A reading of Kenyan author Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ’s Black Star Nairobi reveals how it has disrupted the genre.
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