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On the Poetics and Politics of the Afar Kassow
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Gidey Alemu Muauz --- Department of Political Sciences, South Africa Mohamed Hassan Saleh --- Research and Study Center of Djibouti (CERD), Djibouti RepublicThe Afar people have a rich poetic tradition pertaining to every aspect of their pastoral way of life in the harsh condition of the Afar desert. One of the many genres of Afar poetics is Afar Kassow the folk’s poetized... -
Tatamkhulu Afrika, Queer Heroism, Triangulated Forms
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Michelle Decker --- , USATatamkhulu Afrika, lauded writer and South African activist, over the course of his life suffered imprisonments under the Nazis and the apartheid state; he also changed his name five times and won almost every literary award in South Africa. Afrika’s... -
Navigating Interiorised Dissonance: Somali Women’s Identity, Agency and The Language of Apparel in Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: R.J. Lim --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaNadifa Mohamed wrote The Orchard of Lost Souls with the impetus of foregrounding Somali women’s intimate experiences throughout the social and political upheaval during the prelude to the Somaliland-Somalia civil war. The Somali people’s centuries-cultivated homogeneity through culture and way... -
Towards a New Poetics of Comedic Performance in Kenya Following COVID-19
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Anne Lanoi Keton --- Maasai Mara University, Kenya Denis Waswa Barasa --- Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, KenyaStand-up comedy in Kenya before COVID-19 relied on close proximity between comedians and their audiences. However, COVID-19 disrupted this arrangement and subverted the performance space of ‘traditional theatre.’ This article examines alternative comic spaces embraced by selected Kenyan stand-up comedians...