Journal ArticleAfrican Studies Review · November 28, 2025
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This contribution includes an original poem, “Benediction” in tribute of Valentin-Yves Mudimbe and the first translation in English of selections from
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Book · November 15, 2019
Winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s second full-length collection of poems, Mother Tongues, begins at home, with the first words and loves we learn, and the most intimate vows we ... ...
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Journal ArticleInterventions · October 3, 2018
In April 1966 thousands of artists, musicians, performers, and writers from across Africa and its diaspora gathered in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to take part in the First World Festival of Black and African Culture (Premier Festival Mondial des arts n ...
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Book · March 2017
Others reflect on how diasporic life shapes family relations. The praise songs in this volume pay particular homage to the powerful women and gender-queer ancestors of the poet’s lineage and thought. ...
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Chapter · April 24, 2015
INTRODUCTION Western films produced, or sometimes co-produced, by Italian
studios in the 1960s and 1970s – the so-called Spaghetti Westerns1 – are, in
their whole as a sub-genre, the best known and most studied Italian contribution
to ... ...
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Book · January 10, 2014
on a particular axis of exchange, between U.S. African American music and
Ghanaian, Senegalese, and South African ... transnational black solidarity
expressed in numerous cultural forms animated by a range of pan-African
discourses. ...
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