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slums on the bill of institutions like “USAID, IMF, AIC” (29) is not enough. It is more important to look at the causes of the f ...

exclusionary measures are taken to prevent the form of “civilization” they too
like First World migrants of imperialism did dur ...

Ghana home in a feast of highlife cultural things”. It is a telling comment upon the highpoints of multiculturalism achieved thr ...

fixity in the opening stanzas to show how cultural resilience is negotiated and integrated into the social consciousness of an u ...

More clearly, the Atlantic racial slavery comes up for reflection. Reminding us first that part of the end goals of the obnoxiou ...

they] engaged in various struggles towards emancipation; autonomy and citizenship”. Again, that these cultural activities show “ ...

home.^34 Even where the ideals of multi-racial liberalism seem to be triumphant, the fleeting nature of such victory calls for a ...

So I must reject the honeyed call of distant dreams I come back home to ragged hopes of Earth The wealthy child’s wardrobe may n ...

forced upon a land. Nevertheless, the challenge is in being able to rise above the tide and make home possess a magnetic pull by ...

both texts draw inspiration from the historical epoch. United apparently by the commonality of exile, each text is however disti ...

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such fantasies lies the exclusionary persecution into which individuals perceived to be enemies of the state are caught. Therefo ...

of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The subsequent division of the continent into colonies and the imposition of western ontology upon ...

In other words, modernity’s first apprehension was to work within a binary of the “self” and “other”, the progressive and the ba ...

many of them use their reason as much as more than we do... it is more custom and example that persuades us than certain knowled ...

task for writers at the point in time, whether in diaspora or on the continent, was that of the obligation to set the record str ...

criticism. Cannibalism as a concept dates back to Columbus’ travel to the Americas in the 15 th century and his identification o ...

The veritable substance of this project of modernity mediated through imperialism was the establishment and consolidation of Chr ...

and writing. It is against this backdrop that a reading of Mapanje’s “Sketches from London” in Of Chameleons and Gods makes a co ...

“knowledge generated by many individuals working freely and creatively for the pursuit of human emancipation and the enrichment ...