The public politics of African writers has been in the spotlight again due to the bitter disagreement between Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Akwaeke Emezi over transgender issues.
- Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
Black Lives Matter brings the slavery story into the present in America – but it leaves Africa stuck in the past.
An African literature lecturer shares how embodied teaching can help students feel that their lives and stories matter.
La literatura africana ha sido testigo de la proliferación de obras autobiográficas y de ficción que tratan las sexualidades queer.
A study of the late Keorapetse Kgositsile shows how the poet influenced black American culture. It also shows how his mother and his grandmother’s oral traditions in turn influenced him.
Crime fiction is the second most popular literary genre in Africa after romance. A reading of Kenyan author Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ’s Black Star Nairobi reveals how it has disrupted the genre.
Despite Nigeria’s draconian laws against homosexuality, authors like the award-winning Akwaekwe Emezi are important new voices that add complexity to the question of identity.
A group of leading black, queer and feminist academics held a colloquium to reconsider a seminal blackness studies text – offering new ways of thinking about the decolonial project.
African academics draw up a reading list that speaks to the vibrancy of contemporary as well as older African literature.
In some ways, perhaps Morrison is even more relevant in South African universities today than she’s ever been.
Its critics complain that current Afrodiasporic literature is not in tune with everyday life on the continent. They see its versions of Africa as sanitised and Westernised.
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