This article examines how both Bekolo and Kahiu deploy afrofuturist aesthetics in their films Les Saignantes and Pumzi in order to critique afro-pessimist perspectives from which socio-economic realities on the continent are often framed. Les Saignantes confronts the viewer with a question: “How can you make an anticipation [or futuristic] film in a country that…
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Journal of the African Literature Association is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, covering Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies, African history and culture studies, Caribbean and African Literature and Culture.
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Chicago, T&F) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Journal of the African Literature Association 12 (3): 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies African history and culture studies Caribbean and African Literature and Culture South African History and Culture African studies and sociopolitical issues |
| ISSN | 2167-4736 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.32 |
| h-index | 10 |
| i10-index | 14 |
| Total citations | 892 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com |
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Since September 2017, the English-speaking peoples of the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon have been subjected to unprecedented repression of genocidal dimension by the Biya regime that needs to be unpacked. What precisely led to this ugly situation which has come to be known as “the Anglophone problem?” This article sets out to lucidly…
The scholarship that gets published in academic journals reflects and replicates particular conversations, and privileges authors schooled in certain methodologies. The friendships and collaborations between scholars of African literature based in different regions of the world are evident in the ongoing work and membership of the ALA, and make the organisation and its gatherings distinctive.…
This commentary examines the contemporary relevance of Uganda’s 1972 Asian expulsion. It describes and argues against “expulsion exceptionalism,” or the ways that expulsion is understood as a singular event and through discourses of African-Asian racial estrangement, the racial victimization of Asians, the excesses of military dictator Idi Amin, and illiberal framings of Uganda, Africa and…
Khal Torabully creates poetry and a poetics for those forgotten by history, a theorem and theory which construct a tangible and sensual landscape, allowing for an empathetically shared experience and expressing the dramatic climax of the third phase of accelerated globalization: a project that would be unthinkable without the cultural theory we now have at…