Browsing School of Arts by Author "Rafapa, Lesibana"

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Antidote for Global Feminist Gaps As Encoded in Sindiwe Magona’s Black South African Autobiographies

Rafapa, Lesibana (Nova Science Publishers, 2014-09)

The relatively new black woman South African writer Sindiwe Magona’s autobiographies To My Children’s Children (1990) and Mother to Mother (1998) urge the agency of oppressed black South African women in a nuanced manner. ...
Artistic Innovation Through Cultural Symbols: A Strategy for Sustainable Development in Kgebetli Moele's Room 207

Rafapa, Lesibana (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)

This peer-reviewed book chapter looks at the post-1994 Hillbrow novel, Room 207 by Kgebetli Moele, (2006), with a view to tracing its thematic and stylistic successes or failures in branding indigenous African thinking as ...
At the heart of African rainmaking

Rafapa, Lesibana (Southern African Folklore Society, 2008-07)

This paper reports on findings regarding one African community that has practiced rainmaking until the early 1960s. Rainmaking among Africans was recorded in 19th century travel writing by imperialist Europeans such as ...
Circumcision and Celebratory Orality among Some Black South African Cultural Groups

Rafapa, Lesibana (Hawaii University International Conferences (HUIC), 2019-04)

My premise in this study affirms views like those of Abraham (2015) that the African personality pervading all African cultures has selectively preserved its traditional identity even as it dealt with hybrity that has been ...
The content, handling and role of oral history in the Zion Christian Church

Rafapa, Lesibana (Research Institute for Theology and Religion of the University of South Africa, 2013)

The Zion Christian Church (ZCC) has been documented as an AIC the trope of Christian religion of which is tampered with Africanism. Such an Africanism encapsulates the valuing of oral history and other aspects of orature ...
A credo to guide the new SA

Rafapa, Lesibana (City Press newspaper, 2006-11-19)

The credit that may not justifiably be taken from towering African figures such as Nkrumah, Kaunda and Nyerere in whom political power and theoretical originality interfaced, is the contribution they made towards the ...
Dissolved black identity in dominant critiques of black South African literature

Rafapa, Lesibana (2015-08-20)

This paper outlines dominant views of South African English literature critics from the 19th century to the present. Against this backdrop, I examine some English texts written by blacks in order to demonstrate how attempts ...
Es’kia Mphahlele’s etching of two axes of religion using the framework of his concept of Afrikan humanism in father come home

Rafapa, Lesibana (University of Pretoria, 2007)

This article looks at Mphahlele’s application of his theory of Afrikan Humanism in his novel Father Come Home (1984). Since he regards religion as pervasive in the life of Africans, the novel is analysed from a religious ...
Exorcising the ghost of the past : the abandonment of obsession with apartheid in Mpe’s welcome to our Hillbrow

Rafapa, Lesibana; Mahori, Freddy (University of Pretoria, 2011)

This article examines how Phaswane Mpe’s post-apartheid novel, Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2000), responds to Njabulo Ndebele’s idea of “rediscovering the ordinary”. This is probed through analyses of themes, characterization ...
The Impact of 1950s Banning of Some South African Writers on Teaching African Literature Today

Rafapa, Lesibana (University of Venda School of Human and Social Sciences, 2007)

This article argues that credit given to South African writers who were exiled during the fifties when banning by the apartheid government was rife, is sometimes premised on inadequate awareness of the contributions of ...
Indigeneity in modernity: The cases of Kgebetli Moele and Niq Mhlongo

Rafapa, Lesibana (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018-01-26)

The study of South African English literature written by black people in the post-apartheid period has focused, among others, on the so-called Hillbrow novels of Phaswane Mpe and Niq Mhlongo, and narratives such as Kgebetli ...
Instances of Bessie Head’s distinctive feminism, womanism and Africanness in her novels

Rafapa, Lesibana; Nengome, A.Z.; Tshamano, H.S. (University of Pretoria, 2011)

Bessie Head was one of the Drum writers of the 1950s. As critics such as Huma Ibrahim have indicated it was only after her death in 1986 that she was included in discussions on the Drum generation. The result of her prior ...
The intersection of experience, imaginative writing and meaning-making in Es'kia Mphahlele

Rafapa, Lesibana (University of Pretoria, 2009)

After his birth in Pretoria on 17 December 1919 followed by the formative years of his cognition at the Maupaneng village of GaMphahlele in Limpopo - as both expository and fictive writings by and on him reveal - Es'kia ...
Micro and macro Intergenerational oral communication in the Zion Christian Church

Rafapa, Lesibana (Routledge, 2016-04)

This chapter looks at the cultural significance of poetry that is presented orally within the Zion Christian Church (ZCC). While such poetry belongs to the African Initiated Church's oral tradition, my method of analyzing ...
Negotiating Social Change in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions

Odoi, D.A.; Rafapa, Lesibana; Klu, E.K. (Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2014)

Black African women writers have been publishing for well over five decades. They have, through their works, attempted to lend agency to hitherto objectified female characters within male dominated literary discourse. In ...
Oral literature and the evolving Jim-goes-to-town motif: Some early Northern Sotho compared to selected post-apartheid novels written in English

Rafapa, Lesibana (2016-09-16)

The continuation of the discourses of apartheid era African language literature characterized by the makgoweng motif in post-apartheid English literature written by black people has not been studied adequately. In this ...
Popular music in the Zion Christian Church

Rafapa, Lesibana (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2013-05-29)

The article dwells, in the main, in rationalizing the popularity of ZCC (Zion Christian Church) worship songs. Lest the point of this paper is misconstrued as a homogenization of the ZCC and the collective of South African ...
Post-apartheid transnationalism in black South African literature: a reality or a fallacy?

Rafapa, Lesibana (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association, University of Pretoria, 2014)

The quest of this paper is to probe whether globalising post-nationalism impacts on post- apartheid black South African English literature in a manner that suggests a blurring of distinctive African identities. This is ...
Representations of the National and Transnational in Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow

Rafapa, Lesibana; Masemola, Kgomotso (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2014-04)

As creative agents of knowledge production in the domain of humanities knowledge, South African writers such as Phaswane Mpe have the historical burden of participating in the transformation of knowledge in ways ...
Rethinking Marikana: Warm and Cold Lenses in Plea for Humanity

Rafapa, Lesibana (Routledge, 2014-06-09)

This article examines a rethinking of the historic Marikana tragedy of 16 August 2012, as encoded in the eNCA documentary film The Marikana Massacre: Through the Lens. My approach is in the form of commentary on the act, ...

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