Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2020.1742074
Nkiru Nzegwu
Abstract Colonial/neocolonial/postcolonial patriarchy advanced a myth of the “proper woman” to whip African females into line. At the same time, post-1970s feminist literature characterised power as patriarchal and critiqued it for its oppressive domination of women. Because the conceptions of power underlying both positions are inimical to the well-being of women, we must radically transform masculinist societies into female-affirming ones. A reconceptualisation of power is necessary, but where does one look to for female-affirming models of power? I begin by highlighting a contestation of power between Ikporo-Onitsha, a community-wide organisation of adult daughters, and the modern state, with the aim of explicating the nature of power possessed by Ikporo-Onitsha. I then examine Euromodernity’s conception of power and feminists’ responses to it. The goal is to provide an understanding of how omumu power—the creative, life-regenerative force at the core of Ikporo-Onitsha’s power—disassembles female subjugation and clears the way for the re-emergence of the “proper African woman”.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2020.1830709
Mojanku Gumbi
Abstract In this exercise I engage with Africa’s perennial and elusive quest for peace. In order to do so, I examine cases of conflict on the African continent, an exercise which may, hopefully, point towards possible solutions to lasting peace. Such an exercise, which is no mean feat, has been a preoccupation of great and competent African thinkers across the continent for the entire post-colonial period. In approaching this intricate issue, I move from two premises. The first is that African conflicts issue from interconnected dynamics spawned by the slave trade and the colonial, anti-colonial, and post-colonial periods. The second premise is connected to the first: In order to appreciate the present conflict situation in Africa, we need to look at African conflicts through the lens of Colin Bundy’s observation that those who wish to construct a better future have to work with “materials stamped ‘Made in the past’” (2019, 79).
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2019.1688096
Peter Mwipikeni
The juridical constitutional order of the South African postcolonial state grants socio-economic rights and the right to life and acknowledges the humanity of all human beings. However, these right...
南非后殖民国家的法律宪法秩序赋予社会经济权利和生命权，并承认所有人的人性。然而，这些权利……
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2019.1681900
Quinta Kemende, V. Nomlomo
This article discusses a qualitative research study investigating francophone immigrant children’s experiences as language brokers for their families in the multilingual environment of the Western ...
本文讨论了一项质性研究，探讨了法语移民儿童在西方多语言环境中为其家庭充当语言中介的经历。
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2019.1677163
K. Kondlo
One of the important philosophies which has dominated in South Africa, especially during the presidency of Thabo Mbeki (1999–2008), and which continues to be important even today, is the African Re...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2019.1697187
C. Amo-Agyemang
There has been a neoliberal re-ordering of the political intent behind education in Ghana. Prior to the said re-ordering, education was a means by which the government facilitated the citizen's acq...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2019.1690398
L. V. D. van der Merwe
This article explores the work of Dineo Seshee Bopape and Stephane E. Conradie through a postcolonial feminist lens by reading it in counterpoint to the literary fiction of Bessie Head. The visual ...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2019.1662158
Bongani Ngqulunga
Pixley ka Isaka Seme is an ambiguous historical figure who has been praised for the outstanding speech that he delivered in 1906 as a student at Columbia University, and condemned for his lacklustr...
Pixley ka Isaka Seme是一个模棱两可的历史人物，他曾因1906年在哥伦比亚大学(Columbia University)读书时发表的杰出演讲而受到赞扬，也因其平淡无奇而受到谴责。
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2019.1620617
Nokuthula Hlabangane
Research ethics are one of those issues in academia that, while receiving incessant critique, have settled at problematic notions. This article argues that the Nuremberg Code of Ethics that governs...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2019.1690399
J. King
In this African-centred autoethnography, the author self-reflexively narrates and critically interprets 40 years of selected examples of her teaching and activist social inquiry as Black Studies “p...
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