CURRENT ISSUE

 

Volume 11 • Number 1 • December 2017

 

On the cover: 1982 passport photo of A:JPAS senior editor Itibari M. Zulu.

 

● In Memoriam: Dick Gregory
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● In Memoriam: Mabogatsu Violet Sarah Matlou
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● Fragmented Exchanges: The Impact of Cultural Mistrust on Student Faculty Interaction in a Predominantly White University
by Brettjet L. Cody
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● Responses to Feminist Literature: Lecturers' Engagement with Feminist Literary Texts at a University in Zimbabwe
by Winnet Chindedza
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● Deconstructing the Concept of ‘African Print’ in the Ghanaian Experience
by Osuanyi Quaicoo Essel
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● Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Thematic Study
by Gladys Agyeiwaa Denkyi-Manieson
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● Killing Poetry: An Interview with Javon L. Johnson
by Itibari M. Zulu
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● The Quest for Regulating Traditional Medicine and Its Discontents in Ethiopia
by Dejene Teshome
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● Annual Street Carnivals and Youth Violence in South-West Nigeria
by Usman A. Ojedokun and Dauda A. Busari
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● Orality in Contemporary African Poetry: The Example of Ezenwa-Ohaeto
by Stephen T. Ogundipe
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● Contending Issues in Political Parties in Nigeria: The Candidate Selection Process
by Sadeeque A. Abba and Dele Babalola
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● Contexts and Proximisation Features in President Muhammadu Buhari’s Speech on Regional Security in West Africa
by Olajimbiti, Ezekiel Opeyemi
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● Land, Political Power, and Violence in Republican Rome and Cotemporary Zimbabwe: A Comparative View
by Obert Bernard Mlambo, John Douglas McClymont and E. Zvoma
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● Animating the DRC: An Interview with Congolese Animator Jean-Michel Kibushi
by Paula Callus
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● The Felicity and Discursive Structure of Warnings on Tobacco Advertisement in Nigeria
by Ayotunde Ayodele
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● Defiant History and Agency in Assia Djebar’s Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
by Ferma Lekesizalin
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● The Elaborative Logico-Semantic Relation of Conjunctions in Ekegusii Texts
by Opande Nilson Isaac
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● “Tsada Getzu, Tsada Libu (White Face, White Heart)”: An Exploration of Skin Lightening in Eritrea
by Fikrejesus Amahazion
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● A Critique of Julius Nyerere’s Education for Self-Reliance Proposal
by Adeyanju Olanshile Muideen
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● Postcolonial Studies: An Avenue to Examining Africa’s Indigenous Knowledge Systems
by Abdou Ngom
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● Development and Peace Are Conjoined and Cannot Be Separated
by Robert G. Mugabe
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● Venezuela, Zim: Revolution, Patriotism and Resolve
by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
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●Farida Karodia’s A Shattering of Silence: Colonial Violence and the Politics of Female-Driven Sympathetic Pushback
by Mamadou Abdou Babou Ngom
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Book Review

● Africology: An Introductory Descriptive Review of Disciplinary Ancestry
by Tracy Keith Flemming
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● México's Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women a book review
by Kevin M. Anzzolin
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Relevant Books

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Announcements

● The History of the Department of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles
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● Brazilian Centre for African Studies
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● The Centre for Reparation Research: University of the West Indies
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● The Tombouctou Manuscripts Project
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● The Mamma Haidara Memorial Library
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