Recentering African Perspectives
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| The ‘science’ of superiority: Africa and scholarly colonial assumptions | Steven Friedman | Journal of Contemporary African Studies | 2018 |
| What/who is still missing in International Relations scholarship? Situating Africa as an agent in IR theorising | Isaac Odoom & Nathan Andrew | Third World Quarterly | 2016 |
| Decolonising Universities in South Africa: Rigged Spaces? | Cheryl Hendricks | International Journal of African Renaissance Studies | 2018 |
| The future of African Studies: what we can do to keep Africa at the heart of our research | Insa Nolte | Journal of African Cultural Studies | 2019 |
| Confronting the Colonial Library: Teaching Political Studies Amidst Calls for a Decolonised Curriculum | Sally Matthews | Politikon | 2018 |
Africa's Digital Futures
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Do African digital natives wear glass skirts? | Teju Cole | Journal of the African Literature Association | 2017 |
| Africa and the Digital Savior Complex | Bhakti Shringarpure | Journal of African Cultural Studies | 2018 |
| Digital media, territory, and diaspora: the shape-shifting spaces of Eritrean politics | Victoria Bernal | Journal of African Cultural Studies | 2018 |
| Speaking for the dead: testimonies, witnesses and the representations of Gukurahundi atrocities in new media | Mphathisi Ndlovu | Journal of African Cultural Studies | 2017 |
| Rethinking publics in Africa in a digital age | Sharath Srinivasan, Stephanie Diepeveen & George Karekwaivanane | Journal of Eastern African Studies | 2018 |
| “Who are you?”: representation, identification, and self-definition in Black Panther | Anthony Michael D’Agostino | Safundi | 2018 |
| The future is digital: an introduction to African digital arts | Lizelle Bisschoff | Critical African Studies | 2017 |
Spotlight on East Africa
The African Studies Association of Africa's Biennial Conference was held for the first time in East Africa this year, at the United States International University-Africa in Nairobi, Kenya (24-26 October 2019). Enjoy the opportunity to dive deeper into the literature, culture, and arts of the region with access to the below articles from Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Journeying into Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies | Tom Odhiambo & Godwin Siundu | Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies | 2014 |
| “Dwelling-in-Travel”: Of Ships, Trains and Planes in M.G. Vassanji's Fiction | Tina Steiner | Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies | 2014 |
| Agamben at Legon, or, Teaching “Theory” in an African University | Akin Adesokan | Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies | 2017 |
| Hostile Witnesses and Queer Life in Kenyan Prison Writing | Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi | Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies | 2015 |
| Popular Cultural Memory in Chris Abani’s Graceland | Christopher Ouma | Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies | 2017 |
| Presence, Agency and Popularity: Kenyan “Socialites”, Femininities and Digital Media | Dina Ligaga | Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies | 2017 |
Radical Change in Africa
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| ‘We paid a heavy price for hosting them’: Villagers and Freedom Fighters in Mgagao, Tanzania | Arrigo Pallotti | South African Historical Journal | 2018 |
| Nationalism and Internationalism in the Liberation Struggle in Mozambique: The Role of the FRELIMO’s Solidarity Network in Italy | Corrado Tornimbeni | South African Historical Journal | 2018 |
| Connections 2: Roape Workshop in Dar es Salaam, 16–17 April 2018 | Janet Bujra et al | Review of African Political Economy | 2019 |
| The rush for land in Africa: Resource grabbing or green revolution? | Ward Anseeuw | South African Journal of International Affairs | 2013 |
| Migration, African migrants, and the world: towards a radical political economy | Franklin Obeng-Odoom | African Identities | 2016 |
Rethinking African Literature
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
Literary Prizes, Writers’ Organisations and Canon Formation in Africa | Doseline Kiguru | African Studies | 2016 |
| Thematic milestones and literary explorations of black existentiality in black literature | Psalms Chinaka | Journal of the African Literature Association | 2017 |
| The writer as social thinker | Wale Adebanwi | Journal of Contemporary African Studies | 2014 |
| Writing (as) Africans — French Fiction Between Empathy and Orientalism | Oana Panaïté | Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies | 2017 |
| ‘To See Us As We See Ourselves’: John Tengo Jabavu and the Politics of the Black Periodical | Khwezi Mkhize | Journal of Southern African Studies | 2018 |
Gender in Africa
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Towards African-centred theories of masculinity | Sakhumzi Mfecane | Social Dynamics: A journal of African studies | 2018 |
| Gender and Popular Imaginaries in Africa | Lynda Gichanda Spencer, Dina Ligaga & Grace A Musila | Agenda | 2018 |
| The emergent middle class in contemporary South Africa: Examining and comparing rival approaches | Ronelle Burger, Cindy Lee Steenekamp, Servaas van der Berg & Asmus Zoch | Development Southern Africa | 2014 |
| Sexuality and gender politics in Mozambique: Rethinking gender in Africa | Susanne M. Klausen | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2012 |
| Decolonising gender and peacebuilding: feminist frontiers and border thinking in Africa | Heidi Hudson | Peacebuilding | 2016 |
Urban Africa
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction: Re-Imagining Cities in Africa | Till Förster & Fiona Siegenthaler | Social Dynamics | 2018 |
| Cultural identity in the peri-urban African landscape: a case study from Pikine, Senegal | Thomas M. Hanlon, Amy Krakowka Richmond, Joseph Shelzi & Garth Myers | African Geographical Review | 2017 |
| Cities Beyond Networks: The Status of Water Services for the Urban Poor in African Cities | Horman Chitonge | African Studies | 2014 |
| Where to draw the line: Data problems and other difficulties estimating urbanisation in Africa | Jacqueline Borel-Saladin | Development Southern Africa | 2016 |
| Mathematical model showing how socioeconomic dynamics in African cities could widen or reduce inequality | Obiora Cornelius Collins, Thokozani Silas Simelane & Kevin Jan Duffy | African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development | 2019 |
New Narratives for the African Diaspora
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| The “Outsider Within”: counter-narratives of the “New” African diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013) | Shane A. McCoy | Journal of the African Literature Association | 2018 |
| The African second generation in the United States – identity and transnationalism: an introduction | Kassahun Kebede | African and Black Diaspora | 2018 |
| The politics of Afropolitanism | Amatoritsero Ede | Journal of African Cultural Studies | 2016 |
| Thinking Africa + the diaspora differently: theories, practices, imaginaries | Harry Garuba | Social Dynamics: A journal of African studies | 2012 |
Mobility and Migration
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| A comparative political economy of regional migration and labour mobility in West and Southern Africa | Hannah Cross & Lionel Cliffe | Review of African Political Economy | 2017 |
| Migration, African migrants, and the world: towards a radical political economy | Franklin Obeng-Odoom | African Identities | 2016 |
| Family dynamics in transnational African migration to Europe: an introduction | Reinhilde Sotiria König & Marina de Regt | African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal | 2009 |
| Local villages and global networks: the language and migration experiences of African skilled migrant academics | Ellen Hurst | Globalisation, Societies and Education | 2014 |
| Common agenda or Europe’s agenda? International protection, human rights and migration from the Horn of Africa | Heaven Crawley & Brad K. Blitz | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | 2018 |
The African Middle Class
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Middle-) Class analysis in Africa: does it work? | Roger Southall | Review of African Political Economy | 2018 |
| The Evolution of the Middle Class During Nearly Two Decades of Democracy in South Africa | Hennie Kotzè & Carlos García-Rivero | Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies | 2018 |
| The uneasy boundary work of ‘coconuts’ and ‘black diamonds’: middle-class labelling in post-apartheid South Africa | Lieve de Coninck | Critical African Studies | 2018 |
| What middle class? The shifting and dynamic nature of class position | Grace Khunou | Development Southern Africa | 2014 |
| Not marrying in South Africa: consumption, aspiration and the new middle class | Deborah James | Anthropology Southern Africa | 2016 |
Rethinking Perspectives on Southern African Histories
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe’s Liberation War and the Everyday in Honde Valley, 1975 to 1979 | Enocent Msindo & Nicholas Nyachega | South African Historical Journal | 2019 |
| An Accommodation of Patriarchs: Theophilus Shepstone and the Foundations of the System of Native Administration in Natal | Jeff Guy | Journal of Natal and Zulu History | 2018 |
| Imagining the Future through the Past: A Political History of Constitution Hill since 1983 | Temba John Dawson Middelmann | South African Historical Journal | 2019 |
| An In(ter)vention of Tradition: Medical Male Circumcision in KwaZulu-Natal, 2009–2016 | Liz Timbs | Journal of Natal and Zulu History | 2018 |
| Attempting to Assert African Agency: Kenneth Kaunda, the Nixon Administration, and Southern Africa, 1968–1973 | Andy DeRoche | South African Historical Journal | 2019 |
| The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire | Antoinette Burton, Faisal Devji, Mrinalini Sinha, Jon Soske, Ashwin Desai & Goolam Vahed | Journal of Natal and Zulu History | 2018 |