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Hostile Witnesses and Queer Life in Kenyan Prison Writing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi --- Department of English, CanadaThis article explores three Kenyan political prison narratives, J. M. Kariuki's Mau Mau Detainee (1963), Ngugi wa Thiong'o’s Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (1981), and Maina wa Kĩnyatti's Kenya: A Prison Notebook (2009), as archives of anxious disputes over alternative... -
Queer Subjects in Kenyan Cinema: Reflections on Rafiki
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi --- Department of English and Writing Studies, Canada -
Gender-sensitive training for substance use disorder treatment: Results and implications of a pilot health professionals needs assessment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Liezille Jacobs --- Psychology Department, South AfricaThis study explored mental health practitioner training needs in gender-sensitive substance use disorder (SUD) counselling genderqueer populations. Informants were health professionals in SUD practices and from the Eastern Cape, South Africa (females = 75%; black = 90%, 10% = white,... -
Cruising queer, old Joburg
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jonathan Cane --- Wits City Institute, South AfricaThe article presents a queer reflection on the method of Walter Benjamin in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using a critical method of ephemera collection and collage, it offers a layered and provocative map of the city before the end of apartheid... -
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... -
Queer Fragmentation as Method: Nairobi’s Example
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Eddie Ombagi --- , South AfricaThe everyday life of queer individuals, their experiences and scopes are lived in relation to the various fragments that structure sociability. Queer lives are first and foremost fragmented and fragmentary in their everyday survival practices and tactics. If we understand... -
Lives in Motion: Theorising Mobility in Contemporary Queer African Cinema
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Wesley Paul Macheso --- ,This paper discusses two fictional films — Inxeba (The Wound) (2017) and Rafiki (2018) — as forms of queer representation within the nascent field of queer African cinema. My analysis situates the films within discourses of globalisation with a specific... -
Izingqinamba ezibhekene nabalingiswa abathandana nobulili obufanayo emibhalweni yesiZulu: Kugxilwe enovelini ethi Bengithi lizokuna nethi Mthathe Ungowakho!
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Melusi Ernest Msomi --- University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa Phindile Dorothy Dlamini --- University of KwaZulu Natal, South AfricaLeli phepha lihlose ukuhlaziya nokucubungula izingqinamba nokungemukeleki kwabalingiswa abathandana nobulili obufana nobabo enovelini ethi Bengithi Lizokuna kanye nethi Mthathe Ungowakho! Inoveli ethi Bengithi Lizokuna ibhalwe nguNakanjani Sibiya, yashicilelwa ngowezi-2008 kanti inoveli ethi Mthathe Ungowakho ilotshwe nguScelo Ntshangase kanti ishicilelwe ngonyaka...