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Academic

‘Tendai Huchu’s Maestro of Lonely Learning’—Read an excerpt from The African Novel of Ideas by Jeanne-Marie Jackson

October 15, 2021October 15, 2021The JRBLeave a Comment on ‘Tendai Huchu’s Maestro of Lonely Learning’—Read an excerpt from The African Novel of Ideas by Jeanne-Marie Jackson

The JRB presents an excerpt from Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s new book The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the…

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Africa

Intimations of an ending—Carey Baraka on the unspoken demise of Kwani?, and the death of a dream

August 27, 2020September 17, 2020Carey Baraka9 Comments on Intimations of an ending—Carey Baraka on the unspoken demise of Kwani?, and the death of a dream

‘Still, there were dreams, and there were dreamers.’ Carey Baraka attempts to gather together the stories of Kwani? 1. One…

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Academic

‘Thinking while black’—Read Grace A Musila’s essay from the award-winning book Black Academic Voices: The South African Experience

July 3, 2020December 21, 2020The JRB10 Comments on ‘Thinking while black’—Read Grace A Musila’s essay from the award-winning book Black Academic Voices: The South African Experience

‘How do we craft a healthy, dignified blackness, in a world where blackness is a captured identity location that needs…

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Fiction

A curiously enthralling existentialist novel—Wamuwi Mbao reviews OK, Mr Field, the debut novel by South African poet Katharine Kilalea

August 6, 2018August 6, 2018Wamuwi MbaoLeave a Comment on A curiously enthralling existentialist novel—Wamuwi Mbao reviews OK, Mr Field, the debut novel by South African poet Katharine Kilalea

OK, Mr Field, the debut novel by acclaimed South African poet Katharine Kilalea, is a pleasingly minimalist, idiosyncratic novel, writes…

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Africa

‘Speaking Shona was associated with humiliation’: Petina Gappah on the influence, on her writing, of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Decolonising the Mind

November 6, 2017April 22, 2020Petina Gappah1 Comment on ‘Speaking Shona was associated with humiliation’: Petina Gappah on the influence, on her writing, of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Decolonising the Mind

Exclusive to The JRB, a new essay by Petina Gappah on the influence of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s work on her…

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