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Just living: genealogic, honesty and the politics of apartheid time
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kathleen Lorne McDougall --- Department of Anthropology, South Africa“We were just living,” I was told of growing up an Afrikaner as apartheid was born. Is it possible for living at this time to be anything but political? To say “we were just living” of being an Afrikaner at... -
Historification and Kenya's Plural Identities: Re-reading Ngugi's Historiography
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jairus Omuteche --- Department of Language and Literature Education, KenyaThis article critiques Ngugi wa Thi ong'o's strategies of constructing nationalism and heroism in some of his creative works. This critical re-reading focuses on Ngugi's choice and projections of characters in relation to historical epoch and setting, evaluating how the... -
The quest(ion) of Leaning Towards a Liberal Historiography in Edgar Tekere’s A Lifetime of Struggle (2007) and Cephas Msipa’s In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice: a Memoir (2015)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Walter Kudzai Barure --- , South AfricaZimbabwe’s historiography is commonly confined to a singular narrative that glorifies the deeds of a few prominent figures while sidelining the contributions and perspectives of other political actors. This paper redirects the narrative focus by examining Edgar Tekere’s A Lifetime...