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When the Light is Fire: Maasai Schoolgirls in Contemporary Kenya by Heather D. Switzer.
Read more: When the Light is Fire: Maasai Schoolgirls in Contemporary Kenya by Heather D. Switzer.As per the old English adage, “Do not look a…
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Tahir’s Youth: Leaderless Revolution, by Rusha Latif
Read more: Tahir’s Youth: Leaderless Revolution, by Rusha LatifRusha Latif’s Tahrir’sYouth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution (2022) joins…
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A Magnifying Glass and A Fine-Tooth Comb: Understanding Girls’ and Young Women’s Sexual Vulnerability, by Mzikazi Nduna. Pretoria: CSA&G Press, Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender, University of Pretoria, 2020.
Read more: A Magnifying Glass and A Fine-Tooth Comb: Understanding Girls’ and Young Women’s Sexual Vulnerability, by Mzikazi Nduna. Pretoria: CSA&G Press, Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender, University of Pretoria, 2020.While reading this monograph, one could not help but be…
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Bouncing Back and Developing Elasticity During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Exploring Intergenerational Partnerships and Interventions among Grassroots Women’s Organisations to Address COVID-19-Related Challenges in Rural Western Cape, South Africa
Read more: Bouncing Back and Developing Elasticity During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Exploring Intergenerational Partnerships and Interventions among Grassroots Women’s Organisations to Address COVID-19-Related Challenges in Rural Western Cape, South AfricaIntroduction The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified pre-existing inequalities and social…
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Land of My Dreams
Read more: Land of My DreamsAbstract An unrelenting policy of francophonisation of the two Anglophone…
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“How to Save the World from Aliens, Yet Keep Their Infrastructure”: Repurposing the “Master’s House” in The Wormwood Trilogy
Read more: “How to Save the World from Aliens, Yet Keep Their Infrastructure”: Repurposing the “Master’s House” in The Wormwood TrilogyAbstract In this essay, we examine the figure of Oyin…
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“One Foot on the Other Side”: An Africanfuturist Reading of Irenosen Okojie’s Butterfly Fish (2015) and Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater (2018)
Read more: “One Foot on the Other Side”: An Africanfuturist Reading of Irenosen Okojie’s Butterfly Fish (2015) and Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater (2018)Abstract This essay argues that Africanfuturism is present in a…
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Africanfuturism and the Reframing of Gender in the Fiction of Nnedi Okorafor
Read more: Africanfuturism and the Reframing of Gender in the Fiction of Nnedi OkoraforAbstract Marvel’s Black Panther movie, released in 2018, sparked renewed…
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Gender and Sexuality in African Futurism
Read more: Gender and Sexuality in African FuturismThis Feminist Africa issue was inspired by my weekly conversations…