In her debut novel, Zebra Crossing, Meg Vandermerwe privileges the voice of Chipo Nyamubaya, an albino girl from Zimbabwe, to capture the gripping and tragic experiences of African immigrants in South Africa. This article ...

This study was an exploration of how language is managed in the subordinate courts of Machakos County in Kenya. It was an investigation into the language policy used in the courts, and whether the languages serve the ...

Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria quartet is a tetralogy which explores the multi-perspectival nature of truth and reality. Using the first two novels, Justine and Balthazar, this article will briefly explore the palimpsestic ...

This thesis uses a postcolonial framework to analyse the construction and representation of identities of Shona women in selected black and white Zimbabwean-authored fiction in English published between 1890 and 2015. The ...

This paper considers the timing and entry into public discourse of ‘Radical Economic Transformation’ as a concept that is open to deliberate misinterpretation in the media. Whilst, as the title suggests, it is necessary ...

This dissertation examines how three dystopian texts, namely Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey and Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy, exhibit social conformity as a disciplinary mechanism ...

This article examines the fluid gender boundaries embodied in the figure of Pierrot in Christopher Dowson’s The Pierrot of the Minute. The central pivot of this slight play is the ambivalent figure of Pierrot and his ...

Through an in-depth analysis of selected texts, this study engages with the ways in which Ogun is reimagined by recent selected Nigerian playwrights. Early writers from this country, influenced by their modernist education, ...

The themes of uncertainty, muddle and imprisonment, which are inextricably linked, permeate Charles Dickens’s novels. In his ‘early’ first five novels, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity ...

Trees, as threshold beings, effectively blur the line between the real world and fantastical alternate worlds, and destabilise traditional binary classification systems that distinguish humanity, and Culture, from Nature. ...