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   Metropolitan nomads: a journey through Jo’burg’s “little Mogadishu”

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nereida Ripero-Muñiz --- Modern Languages, School of Literature, Language and Media, South Africa Salym Fayad --- , South Africa

   Mayfair, a Johannesburg suburb, is a place where the lives of hundreds of Somalis intersect: a space of opportunity for some, a place of refuge for others, and a home away from home for the Somali diaspora in the city...

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   Imaginings of Khoja, Maasai and Swahili Aesthetics in Artist Ethnographer Sultan Somjee's narratives

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Mala Pandurang --- Department of English, India

   This paper investigates the hitherto unexplored interaction between Asian settlers and the indigenous women with whom they came into direct contact in East Africa from the early 20th century onwards. The impact of their interaction was on the production of...

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   “Lydiate is now our home of a sort”: perceptions of place amongst ageing first-generation Malawian migrants in Zimbabwe

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Johannes Bhanye --- University of the Free State, South Africa

   The notion of “home” amongst the diaspora is complex, with some scholars asserting that home in the diaspora is not singular or exclusionary but that migrants are torn between multiple “homes.” Other scholars highlight that it is not always the...

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   Memory and Swahili Aesthetics in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By The Sea

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ephantus Kamuhuro --- University of Embu, Kenya Justus Kizito Siboe Makokha --- Kenyatta University, Kenya

   Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novel By the Sea (2001) is a remarkable work of art wrought out of a diasporic location on the old East African Coast; particularly Zanzibar, an island in the Indian Ocean that is part of the United Republic...

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