The recently-opened Tiwani Contemporary gallery brings London its first permanent exhibition space exclusively for contemporary African art. The artists exhibited to date have been predominantly Nigerian, but the curators plan to expand the scope of the collection to incorporate visual… Read More ›
Month: April 2012
Dichotomous traps (again!)
Hi folks, first, I want to thank you again for your replies to my shout for help in the format of a post (april 3rd). Your suggestions kept the ‘thinking machine’ running and, eventually, I came with a solution for… Read More ›
Shakespeare in IsiXhosa, Afrikaans, Swahili, Juba Arabic, Shona and Yoruba
Really excited by this – opens next weekend. Productions from South Africa, Kenya, South Sudan, Zimbabwe and Nigeria come to the UK to perform as part of the ‘Globe to Globe’ festival at the Shakespeare’s Globe in London, each presenting… Read More ›
Seminar: The African Writers Series @ 50
A seminar on African writing, on the 50th anniversary of the AWS: part of the Oxford Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar Series (see below for the aim of the Series as a whole). Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar, University of… Read More ›
Modernity vs tradition trap – help!
Hi girls (and boys, if any is reading this) I have some concerns about my work that I would love to share with you and listen (read, better) any comments/suggestions you may have. As you know, I am currently studying… Read More ›
Brief Thoughts on Othering
The Oppression-Resistance Binary: Authenticity of Representation in Two Post-Colonial Novels Introduction This is an attempt to examine how the inferior representation of another establishes the oppression of that other. For this study, I conduct a discourse analysis of two post-colonial novels,… Read More ›