tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14948123618097573922024-02-18T22:28:12.561-08:00African Literature News and ReviewThis is all about African literature, everything: news, reviews, gossips, names to watch, others to forget, deadwood resurrected, others about to die.Chielozona Ezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17531905842036366666noreply@blogger.comBlogger376125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494812361809757392.post-5008333169648338942016-12-03T07:02:00.003-08:002016-12-03T07:02:34.870-08:00Why witch hunting, killing are increasing in Nigeria<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I grew up in a community where people believed in witchcraft and
occasionally I witnessed elderly women tortured or abused for allegedly
perpetrating witchcraft. In 1994, I started the Nigerian Humanist
Movement and made the campaign against witchcraft accusation and witch
hunting one of my main priorities. With both local and international
support, the campaign gathered momentum and today we have activists and
affiliate groups that are working and campaigning to stop these horrific
abuses in different parts of the country and continent.<br />
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<a href="http://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/216979-interview-witch-hunting-killing-increasing-nigeria-activist.html">ENJOY </a>Chielozona Ezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17531905842036366666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494812361809757392.post-72635236464466555382016-11-22T06:01:00.000-08:002016-11-22T06:01:40.466-08:00Limpopo pastor sprays Doom on congregants to 'heal them'<br />
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The photographs were first posted on a Mount Zion General Assembly (MZGA) account‚ Rabalago’s church.<br />
Rabalago and MZGA could not be reached on Monday morning to confirm the veracity of the accounts<br />
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<a href="http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2016/11/21/Limpopo-pastor-sprays-Doom-on-congregants-to-heal-them">Enjoy </a>Chielozona Ezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17531905842036366666noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494812361809757392.post-71160866693310819102016-11-10T05:50:00.001-08:002016-11-10T05:50:33.028-08:00Two-year-old Nigerian boy accused of being a witch rescued by aid workers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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'Thousands of children are being accused of being witches and we've both
seen torture of children, dead children and frightened children'<br />
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<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/two-year-old-nigerian-boy-accused-of-being-a-witch-rescued-by-aid-workers-a6875706.html">Enjoy</a><br />
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Chielozona Ezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17531905842036366666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494812361809757392.post-7111354175114609692016-03-17T01:01:00.002-07:002016-03-17T01:01:24.295-07:00Black pain led me to throw Rhodes poo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Much has been written in SA’s political and academic arenas about the
event of March 9 2015. That day, I threw poo on the statue of Cecil John
Rhodes on the UCT campus. That catalytic act was a political protest
whose possible effect I understood very well. What I did not anticipate
were the events that, as a consequence of our action, unfolded at UCT
and other local universities as well as those abroad including Oxford
University.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/2016/03/16/black-pain-led-me-to-throw-rhodes-poo">Enjoy</a></h2>
Chielozona Ezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17531905842036366666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494812361809757392.post-38935233295362347912016-01-31T02:23:00.001-08:002016-01-31T02:23:31.466-08:00A Rage Against the Eternal ‘Victim’ Status<br />
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"There is nothing more satisfying to the collectivist than the eternal
victim. It is the mainstay of being a ‘race-baiter’ or a ‘race-pimp’. A
race-baiter is any person who uses racial tensions or racially charged
incidents to arouse the passion and ire of a particular demographic. And
a race-pimp is a race monger who feeds off racial tensions. They offer
nothing but a racially-charged narrative. The words race-pimp and
race-baiter can be used synonymously but when pointing out individual
incidents or commentaries; I prefer to use the word race-baiter."<br />
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An interesting read. <br />
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<a href="http://rationalstandard.com/a-rage-against-the-eternal-victim-status/">Enjoy</a>Chielozona Ezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17531905842036366666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494812361809757392.post-36071977963735818482015-12-27T04:32:00.001-08:002015-12-27T04:32:05.347-08:00Did African Decolonization Set Africa Backwards?<br />
Why is it that each time Robert Mugabe is criticized for being a dictator he turns to accuse Britain and the West of having colonized Africa? <br />
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"Decades after the end of colonialism, Africa seems well positioned to
evaluate the successes or failures of Africa as a continent of liberated
people. Nearly all analyses of African liberation movements have
rightly highlighted the glories of decolonisation; very few have
stressed its pitfalls. This article examines the negative moral
consequences of certain philosophical assumptions of the African
decolonisation process. Of particular interest in this inquiry is the
frame of mind of African actors of decolonisation who eventually became
the political and intellectual leaders of their countries. How might we
conceive of the African moral subject within the contexts both of
decolonisation and as a member of the global community in the
twenty-first century? What, if anything, can Africa learn from the
missteps of the decolonisation process?"<br />
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<i>Finding beauty in otherness</i>: The issue therefore is no longer how
different we are from others, but rather what we can learn from them,
from what we have in common with them. This implies a conscious effort
to affirm something in others and to seek to relate to them. Let it be
the starting point of encounter. The first question Afropolitans ask
when they encounter other people is: what do I (or can I) have in common
with this person? The next question is: what is beautiful or admirable
in this other? The third is: what can I learn from this person? By the
time they have answered all these questions, the issue of how they are
different from that person would have taken care of itself. Difference
becomes merely a reference point of individuality and respect rather
than a point of exclusion of the other.<br />
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The submissions are open now through <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1207433509" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">December 1st</span></span>. Here's
the submissions information—if you wouldn't mind posting? The below
text has links included to the Submittable account where writers can
submit their manuscripts:</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-size: small;">Every year<i> Prairie Schooner</i>'s sister organization, the<b> African Poetry Book Fund</b>, publishes the first book of an African poet. The inaugural<b> Sillerman First Book Prize
for African Poets</b> was awarded to<b> Clifton Gachagua</b> of Kenya for his book <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001i2j1ukzFOfJD-0WnS3tBWk2nJiVZ-Q-zKnn1-8kf42jdswDf_I0adSxWBgEGl1I5HqQE3oSfnMzYoi3veUoPtqGLjMMXoAtKUcUqH2duQzG2dAPYiXpzpj4AWLgJvDJ73AeZXosbkcliWyHGVXCi3XHgH77DfqXPZv46CERpi7-oyAuX9xgQLzU6dUyqYPCjbWnwV9tDaJh25Rrqsaai3mfaa11M_431Xh3shHFmkbs3QctV6BgXmg==&c=ivZDH_ccUKgfFnS_6xguazqZ7yYeLnoKtVguvZzXEkZFfjLoMng8hg==&ch=wRYM-XavO3HAvY1BSNuHsLSLqNFLDLY2FxEEecwLqauK--krMzk4vw==" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">Madman
at Kilifi</span></i></a>. The 2014 prize went to Somalian-American poet<b> Ladan Osman</b>'s <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001i2j1ukzFOfJD-0WnS3tBWk2nJiVZ-Q-zKnn1-8kf42jdswDf_I0adcBBH-6O38fqxDZ4eRq7yAGgmK4pQ7DPr4k-QIhPXv_fChGLb6uUz8a0KyvwNqy_6Q17-Tgb_Ldw8Dx1j994dFWM246btKJeqqBQLuqEPoqS7BCQv2nVW9qXMLSEkkm9I6Z2q5vMqi2Jr8Qs40Pf12XcKczvOdFxQkFSF3XD4cYm6NkwFyUGJYVCTMgeC9YoZOW6Q1dr9HQe&c=ivZDH_ccUKgfFnS_6xguazqZ7yYeLnoKtVguvZzXEkZFfjLoMng8hg==&ch=wRYM-XavO3HAvY1BSNuHsLSLqNFLDLY2FxEEecwLqauK--krMzk4vw==" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">The
Kitchen Dweller's Testimony</span></i></a>. The 2015 winner was Ethiopian-American<b> Mahtem Shiferraw</b>, whose book<i> Fuchsia</i> is due out this coming spring from<b> University of Nebraska Press</b> and<b> Amalion Press</b> in
Senegal. This trio of books
represents the exciting range of new and dynamic African voices that
are being heard thanks to the work of the African Poetry Book Fund.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"> The Sillerman Prize is again open for submissions through <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1207433510" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">December 1st</span></span>, so if you’re eligible, please <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001i2j1ukzFOfJD-0WnS3tBWk2nJiVZ-Q-zKnn1-8kf42jdswDf_I0adSxWBgEGl1I5L6-wgpxU-WyO22t44zFxJSYkId5ykh4hG9AbWyBWf7GobLZu2Y8RQtY68s4XWYkOGVEI4eFOEN7HMXxx3eu0OFKO1vmtjqOxJ1yI9j73tpUoM12oKmxS5wBSAHpFznW3TkOeaCrCUw1yQ_OMnM-YsJt1T1BLPs-Q&c=ivZDH_ccUKgfFnS_6xguazqZ7yYeLnoKtVguvZzXEkZFfjLoMng8hg==&ch=wRYM-XavO3HAvY1BSNuHsLSLqNFLDLY2FxEEecwLqauK--krMzk4vw==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">send
your manuscript</span></b></a> (and if you know any other writers who
are, please spread the word). The winner receives USD $1,000 and
publication through University of Nebraska Press. The contest is judged
by the African Poetry Book Fund Editorial Board,
including<b> Kwame Dawes</b>,<b> Chris Abani</b>,<b> Matthew Shenoda</b>,<b> John Keene</b>,<b> Gabeba Baderoon</b>, and<b> Bernardine Evaristo</b>.
Only poetry submissions in English can be considered. Translated work
is acceptable, but a percentage of the
prize will be awarded to the translator. Manuscripts should be at least
50 pages, and eligible writers may submit more than one manuscript.
Finally, no entry fee is required to submit to the contest. <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001i2j1ukzFOfJD-0WnS3tBWk2nJiVZ-Q-zKnn1-8kf42jdswDf_I0adSxWBgEGl1I5L6-wgpxU-WyO22t44zFxJSYkId5ykh4hG9AbWyBWf7GobLZu2Y8RQtY68s4XWYkOGVEI4eFOEN7HMXxx3eu0OFKO1vmtjqOxJ1yI9j73tpUoM12oKmxS5wBSAHpFznW3TkOeaCrCUw1yQ_OMnM-YsJt1T1BLPs-Q&c=ivZDH_ccUKgfFnS_6xguazqZ7yYeLnoKtVguvZzXEkZFfjLoMng8hg==&ch=wRYM-XavO3HAvY1BSNuHsLSLqNFLDLY2FxEEecwLqauK--krMzk4vw==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Click
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In recent years, the issue of gay rights in Africa has generated intense
debate and discussions. Some countries have tried to tighten the laws
against homosexuality and prohibit same sex marriage. They claim
homosexuality is an evil, corrupt and immoral lifestyle which western
societies are trying to impose on African nations.<br />
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<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/igwe20151006">Enjoy </a>Chielozona Ezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17531905842036366666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494812361809757392.post-26385124063050811702015-09-09T14:15:00.002-07:002015-09-10T08:48:27.804-07:00Feminist Empathy -African Feminism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My article on Lola Shoneyin's important novel, "The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives."<br />
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How can best appreciate the works of the new generation African women writers?<br />
This is my take on one of them, "The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives"<br />
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<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00020184.2015.1067996">ENJOY</a>Chielozona Ezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17531905842036366666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494812361809757392.post-15310816147379626162015-08-19T15:27:00.003-07:002015-08-19T15:27:32.562-07:00On EC Osondu’s This House is Not for Sale, jollof rice and all that jazz - Ikhide <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Osondu toys with innovation in this book
and he is successful at it. The mansion “Family House” that houses all
these characters is a living, breathing, brooding character in its own
right, ruled by Grandpa, the patriarch, mafia don, fixer and enforcer.
It is a rowdy house, the reader gets the impression that it is a house
of umpteen rooms. Many people come to this house in this mythical city
to try their fortunes, seek solace from terror, flee their demons, and
in a few cases, their crimes. “Family House” is a not-so-mute witness to
life, dishing out opinions through its many characters that live in
her. As an experiment in writing out of the box of orthodoxy, Osondu
pulled that off nicely." Ikhide </div>
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Chigozie Obioma’s debut work of fiction, <em>The Fishermen</em>,
Chigozie Obioma’s is a work of muscular industry and prodigy, and it is
also an incredibly frustrating book, more on that later. Obioma is one
powerful storyteller. In this book, things fall apart in the worst
possible way, over and over again for a Nigerian family of eight, with
the first four sons the chief protagonists in this story from hell. This
unusual book documents the family’s free fall into one grim tragedy
after the other. This family is a country song, a sad country song. <em>The Fishermen</em>
is a powerful and tragic coming of age book and Obioma writes as if he
is looking through hell’s windows. As an aside, Obioma is incredibly
well-read, his vocabulary is intimidating; that alone is enough reason
to buy the book, your SAT scores will soar.</div>
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The Caine Prize Winner shares her prize money among her fellow shortlisted writers.<br />
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Speaking to the Monitor after the prize ceremony, Serpell praised the
form. “For me the short story is a feminist form, and that’s for a very
simple reason: women often don’t have time to write in more than short
bursts, and short stories are more amenable to that than novels. Because
it’s so contained, it’s also a form that has the potential to be
extremely powerful as a form of political and social critique.”<br />
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At the October 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Perth,
Australia, British Prime Minister David Cameron told African leaders
that if they resisted homosexuality in their countries, they risked
losing aid money from the United Kingdom. Those words registered quite
highly on the scale of African indignation. From Ghana to Zimbabwe to
Uganda, commentators, columnists and government officials encouraged
Cameron to zoom off to hell with his aid.<br />
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A good read.<br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">In November last year, I joined Chinelo Okparanta, author of the
collection Happiness, Like Water, on a panel called “In This Way Comes Morning:
New Writing of the West African Diaspora”. It was the second of a series. (Note:
where the other six readings matched writers on the basis of their writing, for
example Claire Vaye Watkins and Ruth Ozeki on “Weaving Fact into Fiction”, we
were paired for our African-ness alone.) At the reception, Okparanta spoke of a
reader who criticised her story “Runs Girl” for its depiction of a Nigerian
hospital plagued by power outages. Okparanta, who lives in Maryland, spent
weeks with her aunt in a Port Harcourt hospital; she explained that her
description was accurate. The reader was implacable. “You’re writing poverty
porn,” he insisted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/04/taiye-selasi-stop-pigeonholing-african-writers?CMP=share_btn_fb">ENJOY </a></span>Chielozona Ezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17531905842036366666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494812361809757392.post-88825331057706269202015-05-21T08:18:00.002-07:002015-05-21T08:18:29.532-07:00Liberating ourselves from our liberators<br />
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Yes, April was the cruelest month in South Africa in recent history. In
the mid weeks of the month, too many pictures stirred up bad memories. A
black man in his late twenties kissing a sparkly machete. A young man
crouching by the side of a wall, holding a sharp knife, ready to use. A
group of angry black men brandishing hatchets. Three white policemen
pointing their guns at a bloodthirsty mob. If a picture is worth a
thousand words, the last one is a dictionary. Three white policemen
ready to shoot black men, who were after other black men in South
Africa. There can be no greater irony. You can hear Queen Victoria
saying: I told you so. These people needed to be protected from
themselves<br />
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"Before we were married, my husband asked me if I identified as “black.” I
remember thinking this an odd question. I thought it should be obvious
that I identified as black even though I was, “technically,” half black
and half white. But right there, in the making of the half-black and
half-white observation, was, perhaps, where some of my husband’s
concerns lay. What I didn’t fully appreciate at the time was the history
behind my husband’s question. He had grown up in apartheid Rhodesia
where he experienced segregation and racism very much as African
Americans would have experienced it in 1960s America. It was important,
therefore, for my husband to feel reassured, especially for the sake of
any future children, that they would feel secure in their “race.” I, in
contrast, raised in Nigeria during the 1970s and ’80s, did not grow up
with race as a defining element of my upbringing or identity. Nigeria
has no history of apartheid and no established tradition of societies
structured along racial lines"
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Watching the news recently, one would be tempted to believe that South Africa is just about the angry Zulu boys going after blacks from other African nations. It is ugly. There is no getting around that fact. It is also sad that South Africa has Zuma as her president. One can only hope that Z is truly the last letter in the English alphabet.<br />
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Zuma's time will come to pass. The question is: what next? What ideas will guide Zuma's successor? And that brings me back to the idea that South Africa is more than spontaneous violent outbursts of xenophobia. South Africa is still the land of Mandela and Tutu and of TRC despite its flaws. <br />
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In the past two decades, South Africans have produced more comprehensive ideas about the future of the continent than the whole of Africa combined. <br />
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I have put together some brilliant ideas by some of South Africa's leading thinkers on the future of their country, Africa, and the world.<br />
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"Transcultural affinity: thoughts on the emergent cosmopolitan imagination in South Africa."<br />
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The recent outbreak of xenophobic violence (in South Africa)is a direct
consequence of (the political) compromises (of the early 1990s). Usually
labeled a “miracle transition,” the early 1990s were actually a period
of tremendous violence in KwaZulu-Natal and around Johannesburg. The
unrest was fueled in part by the apartheid government’s efforts to
sustain itself by promoting rivalries between the country’s
“traditional” or tribal authorities and the nationalists affiliated with
Nelson Mandela’s A.N.C.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/opinion/south-africa-turns-on-its-immigrants.html?referrer&_r=1">ENJOY</a><br />
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This is an interesting read. Sincere to the bone. <br />
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Thirty years ago, Nigeria ordered up to 2 million illegal immigrants to leave the country within a few weeks.<br />
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In the early years after I got ‘home,’ it took me some time to figure
out how to respond to the idea that Africa was a place that began beyond
South Africa’s borders. I was surprised to learn that the countries
where I had lived – the ones that had nurtured my soul in the long years
of exile – were actually no places at all in the minds of some of my
compatriots. They weren’t geographies with their own histories and
cultures and complexities. They were dark landscapes, Condradian and
densely forested. Zambia and Kenya and Ethiopia might as well have been
Venus and Mars and Jupiter. They were undefined and undefined-able. They
were snake-filled thickets; impenetrable brush and war and famine and
ever-present tribal danger.<br />
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<a href="http://africasacountry.com/belonging-why-south-africans-refuse-to-let-africa-in/">An interesting read. </a><br />
<a href="http://africasacountry.com/belonging-why-south-africans-refuse-to-let-africa-in/">ENJOY</a><br />
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It is on, friends. African poetry has a home now. I am so proud to be part of this project.<br />
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poetry practice in Africa and the rest of the world. What we do have in
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An interesting essay by Helen Rittelmeyer.<br />
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African literature has done a great deal to form the conventional
wisdom about the cultural side of colonialism, that conventional wisdom
being that African societies used to be communitarian, spiritual, and
close to nature, but then these virtues were eroded by contact with the
individualistic, calculating, and earthly-minded West. This
generalization has enough truth in it to make a good starting point (at
least for thinking about the cultural side of colonialism; the political
and economic sides are obviously something else again). Unfortunately,
when pressed to go into more detail about the exact nature of the West’s
cultural inferiority, the argument often runs like this: <br />
“The West is materialistic. It is spiritually impoverished.”<br />
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<a href="http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/10/i-cant-believe-i-was-assigned-things-fall-apart-in-high-school-and-not-this-book/">Enjoy </a>Chielozona Ezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17531905842036366666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494812361809757392.post-88407962657746206452014-03-18T14:46:00.001-07:002014-04-03T19:39:04.306-07:00A scholarly article on Afropolitanism - Chielozona Eze<br />
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Here is my take on Afropolitanism<br />
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Since
the end of the Cold War and, in particular, the demise of apartheid in
South Africa, there has been a sustained debate about African identity.
There seems to be a consensus among scholars of African culture that the
conventional notion of African identity that was conceived in
opposition to the West is anachronistic. But what then constitutes the
new African? Scholars have suggested concepts such as contamination,
cultural hybridity, cultural mutt, conviviality, and most recently
Afropolitanism, as means to understand the complex modern African
identity. This article takes a critical examination of Afropolitanism
and argues that it is an enunciation of the ideas of contamination,
hybridity, hyperculturality and other postmodernist terms that disrupt
essentialist and oppositional notions of African culture and identity. I
hope to achieve two things in this article: situate Afropolitanism
within a larger philosophical tradition of cosmopolitanism and examine
the moral implications of expanding the notion of African identity
beyond the oppositional model.</div>
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<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13696815.2014.894474">You can actually download the PDF from this site</a><br />
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