- Africa Writing Europe: Opposition, Juxtaposition, Entanglement
Some of the essays in this collection are reworked versions of papers given during panels held at the First European Conference in African Studies, held in London in 2005. It is noticeable that a large number of papers at that conference dealt with Humanities: the project Africa Writing Europe sponsored the panel, and concluded its own work at a conference held at Vaxjo University in June 2006. Among the ten papers I would like to mention are Gabeba Baderoon on “A Language to Fit Africa, “ dealing with lexical uses and changes in the lexicon of ethnic and cultural relations. I would also point out the paper on “Refugee(s) Writing,” an increasingly important phenomenon that is affecting the “national narrative of formerly homogeneous nation-states,” as Jopi Nyman writes. The introductory essay by Maria Olaussen and the essay on Ndebele’s novel The Cry of Winnie Mandela, by Dorothy Driver, were of special interest to me. [End Page 198]
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