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{"title":"The African Renaissance Reconsidered: a Synopsis into its Aesthetic and Ideological Manifestations in Modern African Literature","authors":"Amal Jlel","doi":"10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n3a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n3a1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a literary re-interpretation of the African Renaissance. The post-World War II period witnessed an increasing scholarly interest in the African Renaissance. Yet, the emphasis has largely been on the political and economic aspects of the African Renaissance with no significant consideration of its aesthetic and ideological manifestations in contemporary African literature. This article will, however, reconsider the African Renaissance in a new light by studying its contribution in the production of a distinguished contemporary literary African output. I will, accordingly, use Amos Tutuola’s Feather Woman of the Jungle and Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons as two illustrative samples of this post-colonial early literary endeavour to partake in the revival process.","PeriodicalId":325050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115176101","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":"Namibian Poetry as an Expression of Agony: A Postcolonial Analysis of Thaniseb’s Searching for the Rain, Kahengua’s Dreams and Iizyenda and Kinahan’s (ed.) My Heart in your Hands","authors":"Lahja Tomas, N. Mlambo","doi":"10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n3a2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n3a2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analysed how different Namibian poets have utilised different poetic devices to depict the theme of agony in Namibian post-independence poetry. Guided by the postcolonial theory, the paper looked at the use of different poetic devices in selected poems from three Namibian anthologies, Dreams, My Heart in your Hands and Searching for the Rain. The study found that certain socio-political and socio-economic issues act as the main catalysts for the agony prevailing in post-independent Namibia. Such issues include poverty, unemployment, inequality and disillusionment. These issues are the most prevailing themes in the selected poems. In the same vein, the study found that these postcolonial issues play a significant role in the struggles of the masses in post-independence Namibia. Furthermore, the study established that most poets have employed similar poetic devices to portray different dimensions of suffering experienced in the postcolonial era. The commonly used devices are onomatopoeia, imagery, irony, repetition, simile as well as personification. Lastly, the study established that Namibian poets have successfully employed different poetic devices to highlight and emphasise the struggles faced by Namibians in the post-independence era.","PeriodicalId":325050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115255258","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":"The Role of Indigenous Language and Appropriate Channel as Strategies for Effective Health Communication in Vrede","authors":"Udoh James Akpan, Sazelo Michael Mkhize, Hosea Olayiwola Patrick","doi":"10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n3a5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n3a5","url":null,"abstract":"The World Health Organization (WHO) constitution declares health as a fundamental right of every human being, and describes it as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. WHO mandates member states to promote the health of her citizens as the value is to all including the state. To this end, governments including the ones in the global south have evolved policies, institutions and programmes to achieve these objectives. However, the successes or failures of these objectives differ in communities, and it is based on the how health information is delivered to members of the communities so that they can make informed health decisions. In delivering this health information, the use of language that is indigenous and intelligible to the people is important. Thus, indigenous language is autochthonous, and spoken among native people in a community. It is used for communication, expression of identity, play, imaginative expression, and emotional release. This paper examined how health information is communicated to members of the community in Vrede, and which indigenous language has been mobilized to address the dominant groups without excluding the others, to what extend do the indigenous people participate in this mobilization, and also the appropriate medium that is preferred by the community members to achieve their health information needs in order to bring about health development and social change in the community. The paper mobilized a qualitative approach by undertaking interviews with varied demography of Vrede to ascertain which indigenous language is preferred and dominant in the town, and if the people including the migrant community are unilingual, bilingual or trilingual. The paper also ascertained the experiences of the residents on health information from government and health institutions, how they receive it, and the medium they consider appropriate. The outcome of the research concluded that indigenous language is an effective communication strategy in disseminating health information in Vrede, thus leading to the social change in the community and improve their wellbeing. It shows that dominant indigenous language should be used in that communication, and the medium of communication to be deployed by the health information planners should be face-to-face communication, community engagement, and the use of social media, especially Facebook.","PeriodicalId":325050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125460415","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":"Analysis of COVID-19 Neologisms by Facebook Users: The Case of Basotho Netizens","authors":"B. Ekanjume, Thuso Leoisa","doi":"10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n3a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n3a6","url":null,"abstract":"The Language used in every day communication has an influence on how human beings perceive the world. In these modern days, the human race has shown improvement in terms of lifestyle and culture. One of the areas where mankind has shown development and improvement is at the level of language. The changes in language result in the speakers of the language coining new words all the time to suit specific circumstances. Some of these coinages result in neologisms. Neologisms are invented every day through different word formation processes. If social media did not exist, people would not be aware of the COVID-19 neologisms. However, now that people are familiar with new words invented on social media, they spread them to other social networking sites such as WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook and others. The current study focuses on English neologisms created on Facebook due to Coronavirus pandemic. Based on the data analysis, the findings show that the types of neologisms which were used on Facebook were created through the word formation processes of blending, affixation, compounding, acronym, conversion and abbreviation. Of these processes, blending was found to be the most productive one that influences the invention of new words in the language, whereas abbreviation was found to be the lowest. The findings revealed that the rapid usage of neologisms on Facebook makes people to understand the current situation and experience of COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":325050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115908535","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":"‘For Whom There Is Hope’: Imagining Freedom in Selected Post-apartheid South African Fiction","authors":"Robert Rotich","doi":"10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n3a3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n3a3","url":null,"abstract":"Following the election of Nelson Mandela as the first black president of South Africa and the formation of the first majority government of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1994, it was generally assumed that new bonds between South Africa’s white and black races would be forged and a new economic and social order would be established. Hence, the new government promised to lead the transition towards an all-inclusive society that would be a reflection of the linguistic, ethnic and cultural diversity of the country. This larger dream was enshrined, in part, in the formation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that was expected to provide a sense of moral and ethical direction for the country. This article interrogates K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001), Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001), Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of Excelsior (2007) and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999) to uncover the extent to which the different races and classes aspire towards a hopeful and inclusive ‘non-racial’ ethical future. Reading the Rainbow nation alongside its images of nation building and inclusive development, this article builds upon dominant national symbols that portray social, economic, cultural and political reforms in the country. The four texts are evaluated on the basis of the suggested intimated freedoms in those for ‘whom there is hope’ in the ‘new’ South Africa. Locating the place of ethics in contemporary South African literature, the article interrogates the images of the ‘new’ nation and the dominant tropes of sympathy, reconciliation, friendship, forgiveness, and nation building as espoused in the four post-apartheid novels. The article further evaluates the interactions between the different racial and ethnic groups forging forward a collective multicultural nationhood in the present moment.","PeriodicalId":325050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124067524","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":"The Naming Technique(s) in the Depiction of Characters and Development of Themes in Two Selected Xitsonga Novels","authors":"Lushia Kulani Mathye, Itani Peter Mandende, Raesebe Flora Mabaso-Nkuna","doi":"10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n3a4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n3a4","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how character naming is deployed as a technique to depict characters and develop themes in two selected Xitsonga novels, namely; …Swi tlula magandzelo (Shabangu, 2015) and Mibya ya nyekanyeka (Mtombeni, 2008). Undergirded by the Descriptive Theory of Names, this article reveals how the selected authors rely on literary onomastics as an effective technique in character depiction and thematic development. Content analysis was used to analyse the data that were collected through the documentation method and note-taking technique. It was found that some characters’ names have contextual implicatures while other names reflect their bearers’ personalities, behaviour, and/or situations. The choice of names in the selected novels was influenced by the writers’ cultural background as a Mutsonga. Thus, there is an interface between Xitsonga literary onomastics and the ideological outlook of the Vatsonga. Such an observation has momentous implications for onomastics, character portrayal and theme development.","PeriodicalId":325050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129325825","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":"Empathy, Negrophobia and Rape in Zukiswa Wanner’s London Cape Town Joburg","authors":"Dlamini Nonhlanhla","doi":"10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n3a3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n3a3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reflects upon two (un)related spectacular phenomena in South Africa: rape and black racism using Zukiswa Wanner’ London Cape Town Joburg (2014). It examines how the text uses irony to turn postapartheid optimism on its head, while refusing to uncritically borrow and use apartheid language of manufacturing difference. In addition, it makes connections between rape, intimacy and empathy in the contexts of sexual violence by examining the role of tactical empathy during the episodes of rape in the text. It concludes by suggesting that although empathy is an emotion for social good and transformation, it maybe co-opted and used to perpetuate uncanny/predatory masculinities and sexual violence on people perceived to be less privileged, weak and/or ‘deviant’. In addition, this work proffers that foregrounding vaginal discourses on discussions about rape in South Africa render other forms of sexual violence – male and anal rape – invisible/unthinkable.","PeriodicalId":325050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131202486","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":"The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Right of Access to Information Conundrums in Zimbabwe","authors":"Eventhough Ndlovu, Hlengiwe Dube","doi":"10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n3a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n3a6","url":null,"abstract":"The end of year 2019 saw the outbreak of a global pandemic, COVID-19 which is caused by the deadly and novel coronavirus. Zimbabwe was second in Southern Africa to declare a national lockdown and adopted measures such as surveillance, testing and contact tracing to fight and contain the virus. Efforts to fight and contain the pandemic globally led to intensified efforts of information dissemination in various languages and forms of communication. Against this background, this article examines the right of access to information conundrums during the COVID-19 pandemic with particular reference to ethnic minority language speakers, the visually impaired, the Deaf and hard of hearing in Zimbabwe. Data from document analysis of the statutory instruments regulating access to information, language rights and the right to healthcare, observations of the actual practice in as far as information dissemination on the pandemic was concerned and semi-structured interviews with purposively sampled participants showed that in Zimbabwe, the right of access to critical information on the pandemic was not evenly enjoyed, a problem which had a bearing on the right to healthcare and language rights. Some sections of the Zimbabwean society, especially ethnic minority language speakers and persons with disabilities endured information blackouts due to lack of access to information on the pandemic in the languages that they understand and in forms of communication suitable for persons with disabilities. These findings point to the dire need of an explicit information dissemination language policy which takes into account the language preferences of the people affected by governmental communication or measures.","PeriodicalId":325050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies","volume":"738 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133324072","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":"Not Yet Uhuru: Aspects of Social Realism in Vonani Bila’s Selected Poetry","authors":"Moffat Sebola, Olufemi J. Abodunrin","doi":"10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n3a5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n3a5","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses Vonani Bila’s selected poetry for its ability to produce an ‘air of reality’. The central argument of the article is that Bila embraces an aesthetic of realism, which essentially values unsparing, accurate and sordid representations of the psychological, social and material realities of postcolonial (and democratic) South Africa. Undergirded by the Marxist theory of Social Realism, the qualitative approach and descriptive design, this article purposively selected ten poems from some of the anthologies in which Bila published his poetry, namely; Magicstan Fires, Handsome Jita and Sweep of the Violin. Bila’s poetry can best be situated within the historical contexts that shape his texts, namely; the apartheid era, ideas about capitalism in newly democratic South Africa, the emergence of a vibrant immigrant community in South Africa and idealised notions of achieving equality and prosperity through education in South Africa. This article is mainly a critical analysis, and not a historical account of the apartheid era and democratic dispensation of South Africa. In the analysis, it was noted that Bila’s poetry generally manifests the literary categories of social and psychological realism, respectively. As a social realist, Bila explores the problems of economic inequality and captures the experience of both rural and urban life in a post- and neo-colonial context of South Africa. As a psychological realist, on the other extreme, Bila is concerned with delving beneath the surface of social life to probe the complex motivations and (un)conscious desires that shape his literary personae’s perceptions. The article concludes with the notion that, in his commitment to document the realities of everyday life in South Africa, both at social and psychological dimensions, Bila offers a penetrating insight into the repression, alienation, marginalisation, instabilities, and inequalities that structure post- and neo-colonial South Africa.","PeriodicalId":325050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114432365","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":"Rumour – and (Dis)-Unities of Blackness: A Reading of Globalization in Mia Couto’s The Last Flight of the Flamingo","authors":"Ibrahim Gichingiri Wachira, Mugo Muhia, Kimani Kaigai","doi":"10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n3a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n3a1","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how Mia Couto uses representations of rumour in his novel The Last Flight of the Flamingo (2004) as a literary medium for interrogating detachment and/ or attachment of the cultural object/ subject of blackness to modern institutions of Africa and the West through the idea of globalization. The article uses the qualitative research methodology for interrogating the efficacy of the representations of rumour in portraying the idea of globalisation. Through textual analysis, the article examines how the author uses the detached large male sexual organ, discovered outside Tizangara, an imagined remote Mozambican town, to encapsulate the rumour about the cases of some missing United Nations peacekeeping soldiers to the fictionalized idea of globalisation. The United Nations’ commissioned inquiry on the missing soldiers precipitates a parading of the local, national and the international delegation around the severed male sexual organ.","PeriodicalId":325050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133240135","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}