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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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
South African Drum Writers of Fiction: The English Language and African Identity

Rafapa, Lesibana (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008)

The peer reviewed book chapter discusses how, in idiosyncratic ways, the various South African writers of the 1950s domesticate their medium of writing through the infusion of Africanist outlook into their fiction.

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