Essays about: "Afropolitanism"

Found 4 essays containing the word Afropolitanism.

1. 1. CROSSING BORDERS: A Study of Transnational Living in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go (2014) and No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2014)

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Ingegerd Stenport; [2019-10-22]
   Keywords : Taye Selasi; No Violet Bulawayo; Sara Ahmed; Afropoitanism;

   Abstract : Abstract: A number of authors of African descent published ‘Afropolitan’ novels around the year 2010. Several of these diaspora novels dominated the literary scene and caused intense debates about the contested concept of Afropolitanism. The authors Taye Selasi and No Violet Bulawayo challenge colonial images of Africa in their writing. READ MORE

3. 2. Formation Within the Nation : Migration and Marginalization in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Engelska

   Author : Emma Flodqvist; [2018]
   Keywords : Migration; Marginalization; Nationality; Mimicry; Colonial Discourse; Race; Identity; Afropolitanism; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie;

   Abstract : Migration and its consequences are often discussed in contemporary postcolonial discussions. This topic of migration is central in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Adichie’s portrayal of the migrating subject has placed her in the center of the Afropolitan discussion about transnational Africans and their right to represent. READ MORE

4. 3. The Biafra War: Cultural Memory in two novels of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chinelo Okparanta

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Afrikanska studier

   Author : Dora Cassano; [2018]
   Keywords : Cultural Memory; Adichie; Okparanta; Biafra; Afropolitanism;

   Abstract : Recently new novels about the Biafra war have appeared, proving the ongoing impact of the Nigerian civil war on writers’ interest, and the importance of memory in our life. For all these reasons, I decided to write the present thesis on how memory function in a literary work. READ MORE

5. 4. Race, Gender and Entrepreneurship : The Perception of Self within the Social Construct of the 21st Century Afropolitan Identity

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

   Author : Olayinka Makinwa; [2016]
   Keywords : Entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship; embodiment; sense-making; leadership; culture; identity; Afropolitanism; multiculturalism; globalization; feminism; Black feminism; racism; employment; female leadership;

   Abstract : This study explores the role identity plays in entrepreneurial opportunity identification as well as entrepreneurial engagements. At the core of the research problematization stands the very definition of national, ethnic, personal and constructed identities as perceived by the actors themselves versus others. READ MORE