Religion is a universal phenomenon that is as old as the world, just as every people has its own culture so have they, their own religion that is culture-bound. In fact, religion is part and parcel of people’s culture, since it determines their way [...]
History has it that an exiled Edo prince from ancient Benin Empire named Ekaladerhan became the first Ooni, that is to say, the first king of Ile Ife. His people deified him after his passing away, and thereupon they invent about him a legend in wh [...]
The self-assertion of marginalized people has always been made in a conscious distantiation from the cultural values of the mainstream. Self-assertion usually finds its way in literature through cultural memory, language valuation, and voice. John E [...]
In most West African traditions, the idea of vengeful ghosts refers to the spirits of dead persons who return from the afterlife to seek revenge for a horrible, provoked or untimely death. It is thought that the spirit of persons who die this death [...]
AZON SÈNAKPON ADELPHE FORTUNÉ [1], BABA-AGBA MOUHASSINOU [2],
Black and White relationships in the US, by and large, have always been tinged with the psychosis of the demonization of the other. Black people’s resentment about past societal wounds, economic exploitation, and social marginalization offer an od [...]
Music plays a central role in the cultural expression of black people. Thus, a reflection on the cultural identity of the black person cannot discard his/or her musical identity. In setting out to be one of the literary voices of the African American [...]
Le présent article analyse l’oeuvre de fiction de l’Africain Américain John Edgar Wideman Reuben dans lequel l’éponyme et protagoniste Reuben est perçu comme cristallisant tous les principaux attributs imagiques et essentiels de la divinité ouest a [...]
So pathetisch mag diese Geschichte klingeln, so gilt sie doch als Paradigma eines westafrikanischen Schicksals. Sie ist eine Einführung in die „afrikanische Romantik“, die auch das Gepräge des Mittelalters trägt. Ein Konglomerat physisch-psychischer [...]
Cette fiction théâtrale charrie deux pôles de convictions: la première est esthétique, la seconde est idéologique. Elle ne peut donc pas être résumée au sens propre du terme. Seul le lecteur peut s'y aventurer, avec sa propre boîte à outils à lui, po [...]