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Not Yet Uhuru: Aspects of Social Realism in Vonani Bila’s Selected Poetry 尚未乌呼鲁:沃纳尼·比拉诗歌选集中的社会现实主义方面

Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n3a5

Moffat Sebola, Olufemi J. Abodunrin

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Rumour – and (Dis)-Unities of Blackness: A Reading of Globalization in Mia Couto’s The Last Flight of the Flamingo 黑的谣言与(非)统一:米娅·库托《火烈鸟的最后一次飞行》中的全球化解读

Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n3a1

Ibrahim Gichingiri Wachira, Mugo Muhia, Kimani Kaigai

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Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n1a0

Ruby Magosvongwe

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Heroes and Heroines in Zimbabwean Fiction 津巴布韦小说中的男女主人公

Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n2a1

Tanaka Chidora

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Postcolonial Identities in Dinaw Mengestu’s Literary Chronotope 狄纳·孟格斯图文学年表中的后殖民身份

Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n2a3

A. Mogire, J. Makokha, Oscar Macharia

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Intra-Gender Complicity and the Objectification of Woman in Djebar’s A Sister to Scheherazade 杰巴尔《舍赫拉扎德的妹妹》中性别内共犯与女性的物化

Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n2a2

Folasade Hunsu

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Ecologies of Knowledge in Chirere’s Tudikidiki (2007): on Decolonial Ontological Turn Chirere的《Tudikidiki》(2007)中的知识生态学:论非殖民化的本体论转向

Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n2a4

Mbwera Shereck

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An Evaluation of the Employment of Cross-referencing in Isichazamazwi SesiNdebele (2001) Isichazamazwi SesiNdebele(2001)中交叉参考运用评价

Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n2a5

Thompson Ndlovu

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Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2116/2020/v1n3a0

Jairos Kangira

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Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2020-08-15 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2116/2020/1n2a0

Ruby Magosvongwe

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