From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.
Articles on decolonising literary studies
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An African literature lecturer shares how embodied teaching can help students feel that their lives and stories matter.
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.
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.
A decolonising curriculum would consider ways in which writers negotiate linguistic, literary and cultural legacies of the colonial era.
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford
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Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer in African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of English and Chair of the English Department, Princeton University