Recently added articles from The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online):

Exploring Literature: The Language and Logic of Liberation (Kawaida and Mato Oput)

Jul 01, 2008; Zulu, Itibari M ... In my usual call for papers and participation, a few step forward with productive content. This issue is thus the result of part of that effort as JPAS editorial member Dr. Uhuru Hotep organized a call to engage in a discussion of the Kawaida derived concern via Dr. Maulana Karenga for a logic ...

Intellectual Maroons: Architects of African Sovereignty

Jul 01, 2008; Hotep, Uhuru ... Abstract In 1999 Jedi Shemsu Jehewty (Jacob H. Carruthers) coined the term "intellectual maroon" as a moniker for Black thinkers who have "declared their freedom" from European intellectual bondage. Organized into four sections and using the metaphor of the journey toward enlightenment, ...

Communicating the Logic and Language of Black Liberation

Jul 01, 2008; Ball, Jared A ... Introduction Of the many ways to approach a theme such as that of the language and logic of Black liberation room must be made for a critical assessment of the ability to produce and disseminate the linguistic expression of such a logic within an understood context of there being a need ...

The Rhetoric of Revolution: The Black Consciousness Movement and the Dalit Panther Movement

Jul 01, 2008; Jefferson, Antonette ... Abstract The liberation of oppressed people is a global struggle as liberation movements echo one another in proclaiming rights of equality, freedom and liberty inherent to all human beings. The marginalized constituents respond to oppression by donning the armor of struggle to wrest ...

Post-Colonial Reading Strategies and the Problem of Cultural Meaning in African/Black1 Literary Discourse

Jul 01, 2008; Fashina, Nelson O ... Abstract This paper is part of the author's research into the possibility of carving a distinct critical canon for the reading of African/Black literature. It has been observed that postcolonial theory is fraught with many assumptionist errors, one of which is to read all postcolonial ...

Self-Emancipation and Slavery: An Examination of the African American's Quest for Literacy and Freedom

Jul 01, 2008; Mitchell, Anthony B ... Abstract The courageous effort of enslaved Africans to acquire English literacy is an often-ignored story that deserves frequent telling. It is also a political saga that recounts White America's legalization of the enslavement, dehumanization, and cultural domination of African ...

Response of Southern Sudanese Intellectuals to African Nationalism

Jul 01, 2008; Ajuok, Albino Deng ... Abstract This paper provides an overview of the journey of the African intellectual within a globalised world community, juxtaposing neo-colonialism in Africa and its inability to achieve self-sustaining development, except for reluctant agreements on the need for economic unity. Next, ...

African Women, Tradition and Change in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure and Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter

Jul 01, 2008; Ba-Curry, Ginette ... In a 1995 article about the representations of African women in African literature entitled "Francophone African Women Writers: African Feminism and Womanhood," Professor Ojo-Ade warns literary critics about analyzing African novels from a western feminist perspective. According to him, such ...

Barren Rivers and Flowery Women: Metaphors of Domination and Subjugation in Select Poems of Ebi Yeibo and Molara Ogundipe-Leslie

Jul 01, 2008; Daniel, Iyabode Omolara ... Abstract This paper critically investigated how contemporary Nigerian poets employ nature as a metaphor to signify the dissonant relationship between the people of the Niger-Delta and the Nigerian government on one hand, and the African women and their men on the other hand. The ...

The Politics of the Struggle to Resolve the Conflict in Uganda: Westerners Pushing Their Legal Approach versus Ugandans Insisting on Their Mato Oput

Jul 01, 2008; Bangura, Abdul Karim ... Introduction After combing through many different definitions of politics, ranging from the simple to the complex, and varying from the profound to the obvious, James Barnes, Marshall Carter and Max Skidmore assert that "the key idea that underlies them all is that politics somehow ...

The "African Print" Hoax: Machine Produced Textiles Jeopardize African Print Authenticity

Jul 01, 2008; Akinwumi, Tunde M ... Abstract The paper investigated the nature of machine-produced fabric commercially termed African prints by focusing on a select sample of these prints. It established that the general design characteristics of this print are an amalgam of mainly Javanese, Indian, Chinese, Arab and ...

Shona Reasoning Skills in Zimbabwe: The Importance of Riddles

Jul 01, 2008; Gwaravanda, Ephraim Taurai; Masaka, Dennis ... Abstract Riddles have important functions like socialisation and recreation, this paper is focused on the functions of riddles in sharpening one's reasoning skills and quickness of wit, and attempts to show how riddles foster quick mental flexibility on the part of the child as he/she ...