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- Africa, UK, and Ireland: Writing Politics and Knowledge Production
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- 2018
- Published by: Mwanaka Media and Publishing
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Africa, UK, and Ireland: Writing Politics and Knowledge Production comprises 6 scholarly/nonfiction essays, 7 short stories, 67 poems, and 2 plays from writers and poets based in the UK, Africa and Ireland the diasporas. It focuses on politics and knowledge production acting as a vehicle in which the production of new knowledge between these three regions/countries intersects in the literary sphere. It dissects the scientific methods of producing knowledge through the act of producing new knowledge, it looks at the management of knowledge, the processing and sharing of knowledge, and dissects, artistically and critically. It further stresses the importance of the ownership of knowledge and how this knowledge shapes politics. The collection contains work from up-and-coming poets and writers, alongside established ones, also included are pieces from academic scholars, essayists, poets, writers of fiction, playwrights. Africa, UK, and Ireland: Writing Politics and Knowledge Production will prove useful to literary and language theorists, poetry collections, political sciences, social sciences and human sciences, general academia and readers, education departments and students.
Table of Contents
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- About the Editor
- p. vi
- Notes on Contributors
- pp. vii-xix
- Introduction
- pp. xx-xxiv
- Non fiction
- It Takes a Village
- pp. 61-64
- Transcription of a Conversation
- pp. 65-70
- Fiction
- One Man and His Axe
- pp. 72-75
- A Modern Rwandan Folk Tale
- pp. 93-95
- The Eyesore
- pp. 96-108
- Life Can Make You Cry
- pp. 109-137
- Haven Hunters
- pp. 138-152
- Beasts in the Farmstead
- pp. 153-154
- Poetry
- I'm honest
- p. 156
- Anagnorisis
- p. 158
- Caballos en Möenchengladbach
- pp. 159-160
- Goree Place
- p. 161
- Bread and Butter
- p. 163
- We Let Them
- pp. 166-167
- Asante Sana – (Thank You Very Much)
- pp. 168-169
- (On the day) Robert Mugabe resigns
- pp. 170-171
- Let My Poem Sets Me Free
- p. 172
- A Prophetic History
- pp. 173-174
- Sunday Lunch in Exile
- p. 178
- The Writer
- p. 182
- Mother Freedom
- p. 183
- The President
- p. 185
- Peaceful Country
- p. 186
- Ethnic Misconception
- p. 187
- The Death Of My House
- p. 188
- Africa of My Feelings
- p. 189
- Lost in-between
- p. 190
- The Land of a Thousand Hills
- pp. 193-197
- Good sports
- p. 198
- The land of peace
- p. 199
- For Geoffrey Philp
- p. 204
- Thoughts of home
- p. 206
- Voices from the ashes
- pp. 207-208
- I have lived at a time
- pp. 209-210
- Inkanyeziyami
- p. 211
- Footprints at Heathrow
- pp. 214-215
- Africa, My Story
- pp. 216-218
- The African Markets
- p. 221
- Read Africa
- pp. 222-223
- Pizza-ingAfrika
- p. 224
- The Plebeians
- p. 225
- Libation of Blood
- p. 226
- So Long a Shortlist!
- pp. 227-228
- An Epitaph for a dramatist-cum-politician
- pp. 229-230
- It’s Complicated
- pp. 231-232
- Surely, there’re two worlds…
- pp. 233-235
- Basahyeade
- p. 236
- Pages of The Diary
- pp. 237-238
- Do not judge her...
- p. 240
- Making Our Love Eternal
- p. 241
- Plays
- Some Other Mother
- pp. 250-296
- Rage of the Devils (An extract)
- pp. 297-316
Additional Information
ISBN
9780797496880
Related ISBN(s)
9780797493346
MARC Record
OCLC
1054961386
Pages
342
Launched on MUSE
2018-10-01
Language
English
Open Access
No