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 …
Category: Recent JALA Articles
Traumatic memory, autobiography and history in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s memoirs and A Grain of Wheat
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 …
Bearing witness and documenting suffering in two Moroccan prison memoirs: Tazmamart: Cell 10 and from Skhirat to Tazmamart: a round trip ticket to hell
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 …
Lake lore: a study of lacustrine artistic representations in the Malawian imaginary
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 …