Costume, hair and dance allow her to modernise Tsonga culture – and help shape youth identity.
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One of the greatest artists ever to emerge from Cameroon had a fraught relationship with his homeland – but because of it touched all corners of Africa and the world.
There is a thriving counter-current of transnational African literary life that confounds rather than caters to an international taste for “digestible” fiction.
Its critics complain that current Afrodiasporic literature is not in tune with everyday life on the continent. They see its versions of Africa as sanitised and Westernised.
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Assistant Professor of World Anglophone Literature, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor, Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor in Performing Arts, Tshwane University of Technology
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Lecturer in Costume Theory and theatre costumer, Tshwane University of Technology
