Upon receiving this volume, I did not think it was possible for anyone to read through this intimidatingly large book in its entirety. Yet I soon found myself at its final line, and all I could t…
Just like social occurrences such as human sacrifice and slavery enhanced retardation of progress in Africa in the past, trafficking is another social occurrence addressed in contemporary African…
Just like social occurrences such as human sacrifice and slavery enhanced retardation of progress in Africa in the past, trafficking is another social occurrence addressed in contemporary African…
In the autumn of 1981 I went to a conference in Mainz. The theme of the conference was 'The Role of Women in Africa'; it was a traditional academic conference and proceeded in an orderly fashion wi…
This article analyses the presentation of women characters by male writers such as Okot p‟Bitek, Ngugi wa Thiongo and Francis Imbuga. It will look at the woman question both as a historical and…
Western culture produces binaries of power that are deeply inscribed both in language and in the collective imaginarium. Subversions tend to appear in the more affluent class, as is the case with f…
This article deals with Isaiah Shembe’s hymns and proposes that they should be read as literature because, in them, Shembe employs a number of literary features. He also uses features of oral lit…
The hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHerName remind non-African Americans of issues that black communities in the United States have long faced: disproportionate police killings of black person…
This article aims at applying some of the principles guiding Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) to Helon Habila’s Oil On Water (2011). One of the major principles of Systemic Linguistics is that t…
Men and women across racial and class divides have disparaged women’s organisations at various times and places (Abdullah 1995; and Molyneux 1998). The literature is replete with the tendency t…