How Thomas Mofolo's Chaka Turned the Zulu Monarch into a Messiah
Despite Chaka being considered an African literary masterpiece, Thomas Mofolo has paradoxically been dismissed by critics as a "mission boy" who wrote "as a Christian" and, thus, naively extolled the virtues of the white man's "civilizing mission" in Africa. David Mengara's, Colonial Discourse and the Jesus-fication of King Chaka: How Thomas ......
Often examined separately, play and hauntings in fact act together to frame postcolonial issues. Sushmita Chatterjee showcases their braided workings in social and political fabrics. Drawing on this intertwined idea of play and hauntings, Chatterjee goes to the heart of conundrums within transnational postcolonial feminisms by examining the ......
Americans are preoccupied with political polls. In this book, John Zogby, one of America's most prominent pollsters, offers readers a master class in understanding what polls can reveal about public opinion. He argues that those who focus only on the horse race numbers-who is leading and who is trailing-miss the many ways that polls can help us ......
The Intertextuality of Hubert Harrison, George S. Schuler, and Wallace T
For decades, scholars have placed the "New Negro" and Harlem's Literati movements and their participants under the Harlem Renaissance's umbrella with these monikers used interchangeably in scholarship to describe a seemingly singular literary and cultural moment in history. In Rewriting Literary Blackness in Harlem: The Intertextuality of Hubert ......
In Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Knowledge in East Africa: Swahili, Kikuyu, and Kamba, Esther Mukewa Lisanza and Catherine Ndungo argue that African languages and indigenous knowledge forms are the tools which have made African communities such as Swahili, Kikuyu, and Kamba thrive for generations. Using interviews and research data, this ......
Against the background of a changing world order, former colonial powers frequently challenged Pan-Africanism and reasonable arguments voiced in Pan-African congress petitions and speeches. In this book, Mano Delea traces Pan-Africanism from its roots in a time dominated by the necessity to engage to a time in which it increasingly was able to ......
The Ill-Fated Ambazonia-Cameroun Political Partnership
African-on-African Colonization: The Ill-Fated Ambazonia-Cameroun Political Partnership is an extensive study of the phenomenon of African-on-African colonialism in postcolonial Africa; an egregious and vexed development that is causing instability and insecurity in many parts of the continent. Using Ambazonia as a case study, Carlson Anyangwe ......