Setor Donne Novieto

Negotiating and navigating colourism in Cuba and Ghana: Perspectives represented in the work of Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén and in Ghanaian TikTok and YouTube content

Franklina Kabio-Danlebo, Setor Donne Novieto

There is a strong body of literature on colourism—discrimination among people of colour on the basis of darkness or lightness of skin tone—as it has manifested, and continues to manifest, among Black communities in the Americas and Africa. The phenomenon, with its …

Ghana (code pays fourni par la source)

Re-reading the prologue of Sóngoro cosongo—Guillén as a poet of interconnectedness and mestizaje.

Setor Donne Novieto

Abstract Critics have read Nicolás Guillén’s prologue to his second collection of poetry—Sóngoro cosongo—as a reflection of the poet’s inclination and attitude towards the issue of mixing of races (mestizaje) in Cuba in the late 1920s. This article considers the prologue to …

Ghana, Zambie (code pays fourni par la source)

Frontière, mémoire, langue et avenir dans La plus secrète mémoire des hommes de Mohamed Sarr et En la frontera del agua de Justo Bolekia

Charles Didier Noa Bela, Setor Donne Novieto

During the past thirty years, African literature has reconstructed the frontier, mostly through the diasporic writers, who re-established the link between the continent's memory, language, and future. Rethinking the border based on diasporic logic is essential in La plus secrète mémoire des …

Ghana (code pays fourni par la source)

Postcolonial Disgust or Regenerative Vision?: The Values and Significance of “The Man” in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

Setor Donne Novieto

Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born has been condemned for its severe criticism of newly independent Ghana, its disdain for its leaders and officials, and for the absence of hope displayed for a future in which the individual …