Intimità sacra e nuove appartenenze nella devozione dei Mauriziani induisti a Santa Rosalia (Palermo) by Eugenio Giorgianni

“…The research subjects position their worship of the patron saint – as the deity of their arrival city – alongside their devotion to Hindu female goddesses, by drawing analogies between local devotional practices and the religious experiences of postcolonial Mauritius. The Santuzza and her sacred mountain (Monte Pellegrino) are adopted as divine mediators of the problems and desires arising from their mobility. …”
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Contemporary Painting as Reflector of Yoruba Cultural Values by Michael Olusegun Fajuyigbe

“…The study traces the origin of painting in Africa, from its earliest forms in African caves, shrines, and palaces, through the colonial and postcolonial eras to the present. Based on their contexts, eight (8) paintings that portray specific values of the Yorùbá and are ingrained with symbolic motifs, patterns and imageries are selected. …”
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A Sociocultural Appraisal of Yorùbá Kegites’ Songs by George Olúsolá Ajíbádé

“…It shows the practice of engagement by the Kegites through which identity can be textually constructed in ways that politicize self-representation and challenge discourses grounded in the colonial and postcolonial histories of the Yorùbá people. Through the discussion of themes such as ancestral presence, the aesthetics of orature, and the political significance of group or society (ẹgbé) ̣ among the Yorùbá, the paper seeks to showcase the presence of a characteristic of Yorùbá oral literature in which personal, cultural, economic, social and political issues become inseparable. …”
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O ESTADO ATUAL DA SOCIOLOGIA: algumas observações face ao próximo Congresso ALAS by Alain Caillé

“…Propõe então que se a sociologia quiser sobreviver terá de se abrir para as novas discussões como a dos postcolonial studies e subaltern studies, e também a dos gender studies e care studies, e aquelas teorias de importante dimensão moral como as do reconhecimento e do dom. …”
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Authority and Moral Conflicts in the Films of Adébáyọ Fálétí: Àfọ̀njá, Gáà, Ṣawo Ṣẹ̀gbẹ̀rì and the Yorùbá Cosmopolis by Olayinka Agbetuyi

“…In Àfọ̀njá and Gáà that context is provided by the empire phase of Yorùbá civilization in which Yorùbá civilization was the dominant point of reference; in Ṣawo Ṣẹgbẹ ̀ rì ̀ the drama is situated in the context of postcolonial Nigerian city, in a nation that boasts large ethnic nationalities of which the Yorùbá are only one and in which Yorùbá culture is mediated by the postcolonial state with its symbol of the English language as the means of communication and its cultural spin offs. …”
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From the Other Shore: Exploring Home and Spatial Duality in Leïla Sebbar’s Le silence des rives (Silence on the Shores) by Nassima Amirouche

“…The concept of spatial duality, as developed by Gaston Bachelard, provides a valuable framework for understanding the intricate relationship between exiles’ experiences of physical and psychological space. The postcolonial reading perspective also elucidates the complexity of (im)migrant subjectivity and the discourse of belonging. …”
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"He told me to hold my tongue" : de la violence physique à la subjectivation politique dans The History of Mary Prince by Frédéric Regard

“…The cooperation between Prince and Strickland has been analysed as one the very first instances of a deep convergence betwen feminist and postcolonial interests. I argue that it would be even more infesting to include Pringle himself in the play of this ’interval’ between Prince’s martyred body and her voice. …”
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Educação do campo no Brasil: um discurso para além do pós-colonial? by Sônia Maria da Silva Araújo

“…El artículo identifica el campo de la educación como un fenómeno social que puede ser analizado con base en la teoría postcolonial. Sin embargo, se insiste en que esto no es posible sin un cambio en la matriz original de la teoría. …”
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Christoph Schlingensief im Spannungsfeld von Kunst und Realpolitik by Alexandra Vinzenz

“…Der kunsthistorische und theaterwissenschaftliche Blick, der methodische Ansätze der Postcolonial Studies mit einbezieht, trägt zur Verortung von Schlingensiefs Arbeiten bei.…”
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Maps and Memory, Rights and Relationships by Sian Sullivan

“…Mapping new administrative domains for integrating conservation and development, and defining rights in terms of both new policy and the citizenry governed thereby, have been central to postcolonial neoliberal environmental governance programmes known as Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM). …”
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How the Internet is Transforming the Bombay Poetry Scene by Manon Boukhroufa-Trijaud

“…This article explores the context of Bombay/Mumbai in an attempt to show how the city’s poetry scene was transformed once it went online. As the postcolonial city of Bombay turned into Mumbai – i.e. a modern-day megacity –, notable literary changes followed, from the dissolution of its traditional poetic scene – as poets dispersed to distant suburbs, neighbouring cities, or even abroad – to the disappearance of an already fragile ecosystem of publishing collectives. …”
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« L’Indépendance, c’est maintenant ! » Réflexion sur le soulèvement populaire en Algérie by Naoual Belakhdar

“…Since the 22nd of February 2019, Algeria is witnessing an unprecedented popular upheaval in its postcolonial history. Millions of Algerian citizens, from all genders, classes, ages and ideologies took to the streets across the whole national territory in order to oppose a 5th mandate of Abdelaziz Bouteflika and to ask for the departure of the entire system. …”
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'Man is the Measure of All Things' by Victor Muñoz Sanz, Dan Handel

“…The term Man, and the humanist tradition which followed from it, have been challenged in feminist, queer, poststructuralist, and postcolonial critiques, which questioned its nature, or even pondered if we are actually human. …”
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A Historical Review of African Scholarship and the Decolonial Discourse: Challenges and Prospects by Juliet Munyaradzi

“…This is pertinent to higher education in postcolonial Africa, whose indigenous knowledge systems and intellectual legacies have played peripheral roles because of coloniality and the global neoliberal trends. …”
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Notes from Field Work on the Ijemo in Abeokuta by Damilola Osunlakin, Toyin Falola

“…It is elementary that the composition of the postcolonial Nigerian state is a fusion of multiple nationalities, people of different cultural and historical backgrounds. …”
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L’ḥarga e le sue bruciature. Riflessioni sulla migrazione “irregolare” tunisina a partire da alcune note etnografiche by Carmelo Russo

“…The ḥarga will emerge in the form of collective representations capable of permeating the singularities of existences in which awareness of the difficulties due to visa restrictions, the paternalism of the “Western” gaze, the postcolonial subservience to Europe, the limitations of qualifying as “legal migrants,” the violence and aggressiveness of controls, and the European will to exclude undesirables play a prominent role.…”
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Cartes et mémoire, droits et relations by Sian Sullivan

“…Mapping new administrative domains for integrating conservation and development, and defining rights in terms of both new policy and the citizenry governed thereby, have been central to postcolonial neoliberal environmental governance programmes known as Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM). …”
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Resisting Material Binaries: Unpacking persisting dichotomies of building materials in Central Africa by Robby Fivez

“…However, as this article argues, this strong binary approach to building materials is heavily influenced by colonial and postcolonial logic. To understand this continuity, I will trace some path dependencies visible in the Central African region from the colonial period to the present. …”
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Concentration and Diversification of Production by Example of Major Indian Business groups by M. A. Vorobyeva

“…We show that the main feature of big business formation in India, due to some conditions of colonial and postcolonial development, is that capital concentration was not accompanied by industrial concentration. …”
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Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin, Yunusa Kehinde Salami and Kola Abimbola (eds.) Exploring the Ethics of Individualism and Communitarianism. Harvest Day Publications ,2016,365p. by Adeshina Afolayan

“…With his African Philosophy: Traditional Yorùbá Philosophy and Contemporary African Realities (1991), Professor Gbadegesin effectively brought deep philosophical insights into significant issues in Africa’s postcolonial malaise. The 16-chapter volume has a sufficiently wide array of significant scholars whose different perspectives provide a wide context within which to situate the brilliant scholarship of Segun Gbadegesin. …”
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