{"title":"Omumu: Disassembling Subordination, Reasserting Endogenous Powers","authors":"Nkiru Nzegwu","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2020.1742074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2020.1742074","url":null,"abstract":"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”.","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121848903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Africa and Her Perennial, Elusive Quest for Peace: A Reflection on Possible Causes and Solutions","authors":"Mojanku Gumbi","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2020.1830709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2020.1830709","url":null,"abstract":"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).","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123798286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ubuntu, Rights, and Neoliberalism in South Africa","authors":"Peter Mwipikeni","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2019.1688096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2019.1688096","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124813271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negotiating Linguistic Boundaries: Francophone Immigrant Children’s Experiences as Language Brokers in South Africa","authors":"Quinta Kemende, V. Nomlomo","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2019.1681900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2019.1681900","url":null,"abstract":"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 ...","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116449743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Disarticulate Intersection of Parallels”: The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania and the African Renaissance Philosophy","authors":"K. Kondlo","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2019.1677163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2019.1677163","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121514985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Valorising University Education in Ghana","authors":"C. Amo-Agyemang","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2019.1697187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2019.1697187","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132625474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing Desire and History: Collecting as Postcolonial Feminist Methodology in South African Art","authors":"L. V. D. van der Merwe","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2019.1690398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2019.1690398","url":null,"abstract":"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 ...","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123894211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pixley ka Isaka Seme and the Politics of Black Emancipation","authors":"Bongani Ngqulunga","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2019.1662158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2019.1662158","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117330079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Ethics Fail: Unmasking the Duplicity of Eurocentric Universal Pretensions in the African Context","authors":"Nokuthula Hlabangane","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2019.1620617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2019.1620617","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125357518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Staying Human: Forty Years of Black Studies Practical-Critical Activity in the Spirit of (Aunt) Jemima","authors":"J. King","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2019.1690399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2019.1690399","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116175239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}