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Eros and politics: Love and its discontents in the fiction of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
In this study I focus on how Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s fiction portrays his socio-political vision through the prevalence of the intimate relationships it displays. The study critically analyses the significant role romantic ...
Figuring the heroine in the ankara romance series against the archetype of Flora Nwapa’s efuru: marriage, procreation, love, sex, and work, master’s
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
Romantic love has been neglected in the study of African literature and culture. It has been
misconstrued and overlooked in canonical African literature, and the scholarship of that literature.
Only recently has some ...
Place, space and patriarchal femininities in selected contemporary novels by African women writers
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
In much feminist literature, women’s spaces are analysed as constructive and supportive sites that may offer respite from patriarchy. However, women’s spaces are not inherently emancipatory. Through the socio-spatial ...
Science fiction and magical realism: African environmentalism in the organic fantasy of Nnedi Okorafor
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
This is a work of ecocriticism—the interdisciplinary study of literature and environment—
which takes as its point of departure the environmental and literary insights of Amitav Ghosh
in The Great Derangement: Climate ...