african literatures

Poetic inserts and the art of persuasion in the Somali novel “Aqoondarro waa u nacab jacayl” (“Ignorance is the enemy of love”) by Faarax M. J. Cawl
Poetic inserts and the art of persuasion in the Somali novel “Aqoondarro waa u nacab jacayl” (“Ignorance is the enemy of love”) by Faarax M. J. Cawl

Horn of Africa, Interventions

Poetic inserts and the art of persuasion in the Somali novel “Aqoondarro waa u nacab jacayl” (“Ignorance is the enemy of love”) by Faarax M. J. Cawl

By admin_mulosige|2018-01-27T14:31:28+01:00February 19th, 2018|Categories: Horn of Africa, Interventions|Tags: african language novels, african literature, african literatures, Horn of Africa, somali, somali language, somali literature, somali poetry, somalia|

Ruixuan Li is a first year PhD student at SOAS University of London focusing on modern Somali poetry. Her research looks at the complex identities expressed by the new generation of Somali women poets through a comparative study of their poetry in Somali and English. Ignorance is the enemy of love: the novel

The Pulaar book network: transnationalism from below?
The Pulaar book network: transnationalism from below?

Interventions

The Pulaar book network: transnationalism from below?

By admin_mulosige|2018-01-27T14:30:09+01:00February 5th, 2018|Categories: Interventions|Tags: african diaspora, african language novels, african languages, african literatures, novels, paris, small press, west africa|

Researcher Melanie Bouret examines the grassroots movement for literacy in Pulaar, an African Fulani language spoken in Senegal and Mauritania (and in a vast diaspora), and shows how books circulate throughout a transregional network that is at once coordinated and spontaneous.