Digital media, literacies and African literature by Pier Paolo Frassinelli, Lisa Treffry-Goatley

Subjects: “…Digital media, literacies and African literature…”
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African Literature in Translation: Towards Adopting a Minor Translation Theory by Bethlehem Attfield

Subjects: “…african literature…”
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The Predominance of the French Language in Francophone African Literature: The Case of Konan Roger Langui’s Wandi Bla! by Métou Kané

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The Dialectics of Political Ideology and Power Relations in African Literature: A Reading of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Baṣọ̀run Gáà by Sola Owonibi

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The African writer between two languages: reflections of a toubab by Ewa Kalinowska

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A Literary Turn in African Studies by Kelvin Acheampong

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Re-performing African Literature: A Review of Owonibi’s Translation of three Yoruba Literary works into English – Chief Gaa, Delusion of Grandeur and The Tight Game by Titilope Oluwaseun Oriola

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The Journey of Adoption and Adaptation: A Reading of The Tight Game, Sola Owonibi’s Translation of Akinwumi Isola’s Ó Le Kú by Gifty Akua Nyarko, Rita Ndonibi

“… Language has long defined the discourse of African literature. Africa’s colonial experience has left its enduring legacy of colonial languages which have been imbibed to the detriment of the usage of indigenous African languages. …”
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Daring to Be Different: The First-Person HIV-Positive Narrator in Two South African Novels by Lizzy Attree

“…Reading these two novels together helps us to understand literary patterns, associations and dissociations, which reveal a cultural symbology of HIV/AIDS, part of a wider cultural symbology of illness in South African literature. …”
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Variétés de pidgin nigérian dans « Girls at War » et A Man of the People de Chinua Achebe, Jagua Nana de Cyprian Ekwensi et Sozaboy de Ken Saro-Wiva : questions de traduction de ce... by Catherine Paulin

“…This paper, by looking at some texts by Nigerian writers, deals with some problems that are raised by the translation of Pidgin Englishes in African literature in English-speaking countries. The reasons for the translation difficulties are linguistic and ideological. …”
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Resistance and Christian Ethics in Africa by William I. Orbih

“…In engagement with African literature and decolonial studies on the one hand and liberation ethics on the other, this article proposes a Christian ethics for Africa, discussing resistance as both a moral imperative in postcolonial contexts and a constitutive of the Christian identity.…”
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Public relations education by Betsie Ferreira

“…In this article, an attempt is made to test the validity of this model by reviewing it in terms of both international and South African literature. It is suggested that the model has international validity but lacks sufficient emphasis on international public relations. …”
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Language and the African Philosophical Traditions by Kọ́lá Abímbọ́lá

“…Numerous scholars have explored this very question from Africana perspectives: Kwasi Wiredu (1996) explored the philosophical issue of whether there are culturally defined values and concepts; Hallen and Sodipo (1986) examined the question of whether there are unique African indigenous systems of knowledge; Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1994) evaluated the role of colonialism in the language of African literature; Oyerò nkẹ ́ ́ Oyěwumi (1997) argued that “gender” is a Western cultural invention that is foreign to Yorùbá systems of sociation; and Helen Veran (2001) argued that even though science, mathematics, and logic are not culturally relative, “certainty” is nonetheless derived from cultural practices and associations. …”
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Cultural Devotion as Depicted in J.C. Buthelezi’s Kushaywa Edonsayo by Zilibele Mtumane, Nkafotseng Laurencia Motloung

“…The revelation of how Buthelezi handles this aspect will add value to the study of isiZulu and, even, African literature. …”
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