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Historical Fiction

Fiction Classics Historical Fiction Literature

Botlhodi – The Abomination

A Postcolonial Setswana Novel by T.J. Pheto Botlhodi – The Abomination is a powerful story about British colonialism and its aftermath in Molepolole, Botswana.…

Historical Fiction Literature Oral Literature

The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat

by Yemi D. Prince

{The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat} is redolent with creativity, weaving folklore and faith into literary and historical memoir. It is…

Historical Fiction Literature

Les Aventures Maritimes

by Bill F. Ndi

Recit Autobiographique d’Edward Coxere Pour réveiller l’intérêt du public du sort qui aurait été pendant longtemps celui de ce délice de récit d’aventure, Bill…

Historical Fiction Literature Novels and Short Stories

The Death of Asobo-Ntsi

by Mbuh Tennu Mbuh

This novel re-visions history through narrative fiction: the history of his people that has long been silenced and distorted as a colonial strategy, the…

Historical Fiction Literature

Foot Prints of Destiny

by Azanwi Nchami

The edifice of colonial Africa starts cracking as the Black experience with colonialism becomes intimately personal. There is Martin Paul Samba, whose adopted German…

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Billan Omar, Doctoral Research Fellow at HUMA, University of Cape Town on Ringtone Stories: Voices from Bamenda’s Mobile Generation
Vito Laterza is Associate Professor in Global Development at the University of Agder, Norway, and a 2024-2025 Visiting Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. on Uitlanders in Stellenbosch: Identities, English, and Learning to Live Together
Professor Tinyiko Maluleke, Theologian, leading academic, Vice Chancellor and Principal, Tshwane University of Technology. on Uitlanders in Stellenbosch: Identities, English, and Learning to Live Together
Achirri Ismael, (PhD) Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Policy Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA. on Centres and Peripheries in Literatures: Interrogating Hegemonic Canonism
Viviane Koua, (PhD) Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Auburn University, Auburn AL. USA on Centres and Peripheries in Literatures: Interrogating Hegemonic Canonism