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“Daughterly texts”: fathers and their daughters in Zoë Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

July 29, 2020October 16, 2020

By Emmanuel Ngwira This article analyzes how the relationship between fathers and daughters is portrayed in Zoë Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. The paper observes that in these Read More …

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Traumatic memory, autobiography and history in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s memoirs and A Grain of Wheat

May 13, 2020October 16, 2020

By Syned Mthatiwa The publication of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s childhood memoirs, Dreams in a Time of War and In the House of the Interpreter, gave his readers a glimpse of his troubled past as a young boy growing up in Read More …

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Bearing witness and documenting suffering in two Moroccan prison memoirs: Tazmamart: Cell 10 and from Skhirat to Tazmamart: a round trip ticket to hell

April 30, 2020October 16, 2020

By Elham T. Hussein This paper compares and contrasts two Moroccan prison memoirs: Tazmamart: Cell 10 and From Skhirat to Tazmamart: A Round Trip Ticket to Hell by Ahmed Marzouki and Mohamed Raiss respectively. The memoirs under discussion can be Read More …

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Lake lore: a study of lacustrine artistic representations in the Malawian imaginary

April 20, 2020October 16, 2020

By Ken Junior Lipenga Lake Malawi, with its flora and fauna, exists as a pervasive presence in the collective creative imaginary of Malawian artists. This is evident through the presence of the lake as a feature in poetry, painting, and Read More …

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