African DiasporaPub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1163/18725465-bja10036
Ayobami Onanuga, P. Onanuga
{"title":"Transnational Mobilities in Search of Refuge","authors":"Ayobami Onanuga, P. Onanuga","doi":"10.1163/18725465-bja10036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18725465-bja10036","url":null,"abstract":"Geographical considerations continue to manifest in and influence the narratives surrounding non-heteronormative sexualities. Within this context, borders become central to the politics of inclusion-exclusion. In this study, we engage Jude Dibia’s Walking with Shadows, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Shivering,” and Uzondinma Iweala’s Speak No Evil in view of their engagement of the tripodal issues of homosexuality, home and migration. We interrogate the depictions and counterbalances evoked by the juxtaposition of the artistic motifs of ‘home’ versus migration; and argue that this dichotomy is wielded firstly as a form of escape from a judgmental ‘home’ and then as a means of providing a contrastive engagement of the perception of homosexuality within different territorial borders. Such transnational enactments of mobilities, we believe, also constitute platforms though which these authors channel energies and support on the way to soliciting acknowledgement and acceptance for people of alternative sexualities.","PeriodicalId":42998,"journal":{"name":"African Diaspora","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139214432","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}
African DiasporaPub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1163/18725465-bja10035
Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja
{"title":"Speculative Cartographies","authors":"Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja","doi":"10.1163/18725465-bja10035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18725465-bja10035","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 There are far too few studies on Namibian art and artists in the diaspora. In response to this, I look at the work of Herman Mbamba, Jackson Wahengo and Shishani Vranckx. Mbamba is a visual artist based in Haugesund, Norway while musicians Wahengo and Vranckx are based in Copenhagen, Denmark and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, respectively. I offer an aesthetic reading, unpacking their work as counter-hegemonic maps, that signal the places of imagining otherwise. Wahengo and Vranckx’s songs lean towards national cultural memory while Mbamba’s abstract and figurative paintings conceal everyday realities. The concept of speculative cartography is applied, to read how these artists as African Diasporic subjects, speak to historic displacements and scatterings, while orientating themselves within national cultural memory that goes beyond ‘Namibianess’ or the African Diaspora. I argue that the speculative cartographies generate Thirdspaces that collapse binaries between settled and unsettled, imaginable and unimaginable, material and metaphysical spaces.","PeriodicalId":42998,"journal":{"name":"African Diaspora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46490605","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}
African DiasporaPub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1163/18725465-bja10030
Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot
{"title":"Les convertis noirs au Judaïsme en France","authors":"Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot","doi":"10.1163/18725465-bja10030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18725465-bja10030","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Si les conversions au Judaïsme sont un phénomène encore méconnu en France, les convertis noirs, originaires d’Afrique ou des Antilles, sont parmi les plus invisibles. Embrassant le Judaïsme dans la diversité de ses courants, leurs histoires de vie reflètent une variété de parcours. Il est question de cerner leurs profils individuels religieux et identitaires, les modalités par lesquelles la conversion lie ces Africains et Antillais au monde juif et les processus de recomposition identitaire à l’œuvre. Quels sont leurs choix et motivations ? Comment s’inscrivent-ils dans le paysage juif de France ?","PeriodicalId":42998,"journal":{"name":"African Diaspora","volume":"52 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41269661","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}
African DiasporaPub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1163/18725465-bja10033
A. I. Tewolde
{"title":"Living Insider Positionality with Co-ethnics in Everyday Life","authors":"A. I. Tewolde","doi":"10.1163/18725465-bja10033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18725465-bja10033","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this article I reflect on how I was perceived by members of my own ethnic community in Pretoria, South Africa, in everyday interactions. In these interactions, I was viewed as an integral part of the community, rather than a detached academic. I employ the theory of community researcher and the theory of the everyday to frame my experiences and my argument. Recent debates on insider/outsider positionalities conceptualize co-ethnic migrant researchers as situational insiders. Drawing on my lived experiences, however, I argue that my insiderness has been consistently embraced by my co-ethnics. To establish strong rapport with members of their co-ethnics, migrant researchers need to maintain close social contact, informality and casualness, in their everyday interactions to enhance their positionality as trusted insiders during future actual research encounters. This study contributes to theoretical understandings of migration studies and researcher positionalities.","PeriodicalId":42998,"journal":{"name":"African Diaspora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46466891","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}
African DiasporaPub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1163/18725465-bja10034
Emma-Lee Amponsah
{"title":"Towards a Black Cultural Memory","authors":"Emma-Lee Amponsah","doi":"10.1163/18725465-bja10034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18725465-bja10034","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The article explores how Black people in Belgium have sought meaningful engagement with their history, culture, and identity to create a shared cultural memory, and vice versa: how Black people’s engagement with a shared cultural memory has formed a collective, Afro-diasporic identity and culture. To illustrate how Black identities take shape beyond personal histories, cultures, and memories, I conceptualize a memory framework called Black Cultural Memory (BCM), giving insight into Black people’s interconnected identity constructing/maintaining embodied culture, and shed light on how social media, memory and Black people’s lives interact by discussing how cultural memory is shaped, sharpened and inquired through Black people’s contemporary digital engagement. Examining the memory practices and discoursers of Belgian Renaissance, New Awoken African Generation, and #BLMbelgium, I illustrate how digital platforms helped these initiatives to shape and distribute notions of collective blackness, which ultimately connects them to a global Afro-diaspora culture.","PeriodicalId":42998,"journal":{"name":"African Diaspora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45213412","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}
African DiasporaPub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1163/18725465-bja10032
Nouzha Baba
{"title":"Narrating Cultural Displacement and (Dis)Locating Beur Identity in Fouad Laroui’s De Quel Amour Blessé","authors":"Nouzha Baba","doi":"10.1163/18725465-bja10032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18725465-bja10032","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this article, I analyse the prominent Moroccan-French author, Fouad Laroui’s novella De quel amour blessé (What Wounded Love, 1998) which narrates a story of an intercultural love affair in the diaspora, shaped in-between France and Morocco. This tragicomedy romance story, maps migrants’ cultural displacement and identity (re)construction. I look into how Maghrebian migrants’ French-born youths, known as the Beur generation, plot transcendent cultural and national routes of belonging. Through the protagonist’s case, the son of Moroccan migrants, the novella unfolds how postcolonial Maghrebian migration in France has engendered an intercultural and relational identity that belongs to different cultural subjectivities. It suggests a deconstruction of the idea that migrants’ identity are inextricably linked to a fixed culture, time and place, and instead, stresses identity as a process of becoming. Laroui’s narrative is a productive literary form of self-representation, of contesting homeland roots, (re)deconstructing identity and mapping intercultural attachments of belongings.","PeriodicalId":42998,"journal":{"name":"African Diaspora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48235696","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}
African DiasporaPub Date : 2022-11-29DOI: 10.1163/18725465-bja10031
Marie Godin, Jean-Luc Nsengiyumva, Sarah Demart
{"title":"Pour une redéfinition de la notion de “retour”","authors":"Marie Godin, Jean-Luc Nsengiyumva, Sarah Demart","doi":"10.1163/18725465-bja10031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18725465-bja10031","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 La question du retour des migrants africains installés en Europe est loin d’être neuve avec des travaux qui se focalisent essentiellement sur les aspirations au retour et les processus de sa concrétisation. Aussi pertinent qu’il puisse être, ce focus repose sur une approche limitée, du fait du privilège accordé à la spatialité du phénomène, ce qui trahit une conception normative héritée des politiques d’immigration et de développement. Soumettre notre compréhension du retour à une catégorie qui est indissociable du management des flux migratoires, ne permet pas de penser de manière adéquate le retour comme déplacement spatial, mais aussi politique, culturel, identitaire, devant être resitué dans l’histoire longue de cet espace afro-européen. Ce changement d’échelle temporelle suppose un changement de régime épistémologique que nous souhaitons explorer à partir du point de vue des personnes d’ascendance congolaise et rwandaise nées et, ou socialisées en Belgique.","PeriodicalId":42998,"journal":{"name":"African Diaspora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45577718","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}
African DiasporaPub Date : 2022-11-29DOI: 10.1163/18725465-bja10023
Nnaemeka Ezema
{"title":"Transculturality, Otherness and the Antimonies of Transnational Mobility in Jamal Mahjoub’s Travelling with Djinns","authors":"Nnaemeka Ezema","doi":"10.1163/18725465-bja10023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18725465-bja10023","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The continuous transnational mobility facilitated by various elements of globalisation, evidently, enhances transcultural consciousness. Despite the increasing interest in transnational mobility among critics, its effect on the different perceptions of new identity formation in Mahjoub’s Travelling with Djinns has not got the deserved critical attention. Using Achille Mbembe’s perspectives in On the Postcolony, the paper attempts to critically engage the transcultural sensibility of the characters and otherness that occur in their relationships and how all these affect their sense of belonging. Estranged from their supposed indigenous cultural affiliation, the characters are also unable to get integrated into the mainstream western culture. In the text, it is clear that while transnational mobility continues to influence new identity formation, the characters are still perceived with stereotypical indexicalities. Mahjoub’s text depicts the contested place of identity by juxtaposing transculturality and otherness, portraying their effects on the person, the family and the postcolonial state.","PeriodicalId":42998,"journal":{"name":"African Diaspora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42937510","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}
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