Black Lives Matter brings the slavery story into the present in America – but it leaves Africa stuck in the past.
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An African literature lecturer shares how embodied teaching can help students feel that their lives and stories matter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer in African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Emory University
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Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
