Journal of the African Literature Association, Volume 13, Issue 2 (2019)

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Ala Presidential Address 2017

Could anything under the sky be truly new?
Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́
Pages: 163-171
Published online: 27 Aug 2019
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Articles

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“Something Radical”: Problematizing the masculine state in Tendai Huchu's The Hairdresser of Harare
Asante Lucy Mtenje
Pages: 172-187
Published online: 01 Mar 2019
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Convergences urbaines: la ville dans les littératures africaines de l’Atlantique Noir
Antje Ziethen
Pages: 188-200
Published online: 05 Mar 2019
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Between France and me: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alain Mabanckou and Transatlantic mis-readings of race
Kristen Stern
Pages: 201-217
Published online: 05 Jul 2019
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Dire la migration, « Khady Demba » dans Trois femmes puissantes de Marie NDiaye
Malyoune Benoit
Pages: 218-230
Published online: 28 Jun 2019
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Anxieties of mixed-raceness in Kenya: perspectives from music, media, and novelistic representations
Wafula Yenjela
Pages: 231-254
Published online: 27 Aug 2019
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Interview

Discussion
“I am interested in the metaphysics of being and existence”: Chigozie Obioma in conversation with Kunle Ajibade
Kunle Ajibade
Pages: 255-262
Published online: 23 Apr 2019
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Book Symposium

Book Review
Left universalism, Africacentric essays
Robert T. Collins
Pages: 263-266
Published online: 09 Apr 2019
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Book Review
The universal and contingent impossibility and desirability of ethics in Ato Sekyi-Otu’s Left universalism, Africacentric essays. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2018. ISBN 978-1138611788
Liam Kruger
Pages: 267-270
Published online: 09 Apr 2019
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Book Review
Rethinking the Center from the Left: Postcolonial Humanity and Universalism in Ato Sekyi-Otu's Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays.
Oladipupo Oyeleye
Pages: 270-274
Published online: 09 Apr 2019
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Book Review
“A Surreal World”: Enigmatic Hermeneutics and the Ethical Turn in Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays
Ivan Babanovski
Pages: 274-278
Published online: 09 Apr 2019
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Book Review
Author’s response – Ato Sekyi-Otu
Ato Sekyi-Otu
Pages: 278-282
Published online: 09 Apr 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Translating Frantz Fanon across continents and languages
El Hadji Moustapha Diop
Pages: 283-285
Published online: 27 Mar 2019
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Book Review
Review of Nigerian Poetry. For every homeland
by Obari Gomba. Lagos, Narrative Landscape Press, 2017, 165 pp., ₦ 800 (Paperback), ISBN 978-978-958-831-2
Pages: 285-287
Published online: 19 Mar 2019
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Film Review

Review
The Poets
Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
Pages: 288-289
Published online: 21 Mar 2019
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