The Brass-Bells Drum: An African Literary Writer’s imaging of Neo-colonial woes in Nigeria by Arinpe G. Adejumo, Emmanuel Akinyinka Ilori

“…The paper hinged on the Marxist Sociology of Literature and Postcolonial approaches, it critically evaluates inept political leadership and corrupt practices. …”
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TRANSLATION IDEOLOGY OF FRENCH NOVELS INTO INDONESIAN IN COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL PERIOD by Sajarwa Sajarwa

“…This study analyzes the differences in the expression of meaning of the colonial and postcolonial French novels and the ideology of translating French novels into Indonesian during the colonial and postcolonial periods. …”
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Frontier Zones and the Study of Religion by Birgit Meyer

“…Its usefulness pertains not only to the study of colonial settings in which scholarly knowledge aboutreligion in Africa took shape via the introduction of religion as a category,but also to the study of religious Birgit Meyer58plurality in contemporary European cities, which is here proposedto approach as new postcolonial frontier zones. …”
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World Religions in the World by David Chidester

“…Yet, the notion of ‘world religions’ has been enthusiastically embraced by advocates of inclusive citizenship in democratic societies and by advocates of indigenous empowerment in postcolonial societies. This brief essay reviews the terms of engagement for critically reflecting on the various deployments of ‘world religions’ as a prelude to thinking about religion in the world. …”
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Bordel de bled, bordel au Bled : figures rurales de la prostitution au Maroc by Mustapha Qadéry

“…Because too many shortcuts are taken in the study of female prostitution in the Middle Atlas, this article, taking us back to colonial and postcolonial times, will attempt to portray the phenomena in a different manner. …”
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La place de la langue française dans la société cambodgienne contemporaine : enjeux linguistiques, identitaires et politiques by Raphaël Grosbois-Josse

“…The study illuminates the unique significance and role of the French language in the postcolonial context of Cambodia and its ramifications for education and Cambodian society as a whole.…”
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Jeremy Belknap and the Origins of American Exceptionalism by Agnès Delahaye

“…His legacy is problematic, but it represents a crucial avenue of postcolonial inquiry, in which the structuring effects of exceptionalist historiography can be studied.…”
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La « Montagne raciale » : et après ? Parcours identitaires dans deux romans ghanéens contemporains by Marie-Jeanne Gauffre

“…Afro-American poet Langston’s Hughes’s challenge to the "Negro artist" in 1926—to run away from "the race towards whiteness" and climb the "racial mountain" in order to "discover himself and his people" reverberated throughout the colonial and later postcolonial world. Echoes of his plea have long been found in West African literary works concerned with restoring a positive image of the black self, but other "mountains" to be conquered have more recently come into view, especially in women’s writings. …”
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”Kyrkan förvaltar, äger 460 000 hektar av skapelsen” by Laila Jannok Björnström, Julia Kuhlin

“…The study is based on a qualitative content analysis of the recitals during the Ságastallamat 2 conference in October 2022 and draws, theoretically, on Ernesto Verdeja's model for reconciliation in postcolonial societies. Reconciliation, according to this model, includes critical reflection, symbolic and material recognition, as well as political participation. …”
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Resistance and Christian Ethics in Africa by William I. Orbih

“…In engagement with African literature and decolonial studies on the one hand and liberation ethics on the other, this article proposes a Christian ethics for Africa, discussing resistance as both a moral imperative in postcolonial contexts and a constitutive of the Christian identity.…”
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BLUE THEOLOGY AND WATERSHED DISCIPLESHIP IN SOUTH AFRICA

“…Watershed discipleship has the potential to offer a postcolonial interpretation of the great commission as the incarnational yet missional re-inhabiting of the places in which we reside. …”
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Mauritanie 1956-1963 : les multiples dimensions d’une indépendance contestée by Camille Evrard

“…This article aims to describe the contingent and painstaking character of the decolonization process and the complex conditions in which the empowerment of postcolonial elites took place, by going back to the period framing the independence of Mauritania, proclaimed in November 1960. …”
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Caliban’s Dialectic: Decolonizing Thoughts for the Black Question in Latin America by Dana Rosenzvit

“…The location proposed is in the spatial epistemic fracture produced by the thinking of Frantz Fanon, seeking to create another postcolonial and decolonizing knowledge to address the tension between the presupposition of universality and the difference inherent to every nation-state in the current, unequal and combined world-system.…”
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Le langage de la diversité by Sara Ahmed

“…by drawing on interviews with diversity practitioners based in higher education in the United Kingdom and Australia. Feminist and postcolonial scholars have offered powerful critiques of the language of diversity. …”
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Transformation in the Wisdom Books of the Hebrew Bible and its application to the context of Southern Africa by S. Fischer

“…The book of Proverbs is expounded upon with reflections on the ubuntu principle and the postcolonial-critical method Imbokodo. It is shown how folk sayings can be relevant for the transformation of South African university education and how biblical proverbs may transform folk proverbs. …”
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Demographics and the Irony of Existential Profiling in Yorùbá Thought: Policy Considerations for Nigeria by Wale Olajide

“…I then argue that if Nigeria’s lackluster policy on population is taken into consideration, the implications of the Yorùbá, as well as other ethnic groups’, population philosophy will not only aggravate the Nigerian postcolonial predicament, but will eventually explode the population time bomb already ticking in Nigeria. …”
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Les langues kanak, une histoire très politique by Françoise Roche

“…After sixty years of a very unbalanced postcolonial status quo, the Kanak people rebelled in the 1980’s to put an end to their exclusion from social, economic, and professional equal opportunities and to the loss of their ancestral land. …”
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Rhythm, contagion, "cosmic race” by Lorena Grigoletto

“…Una teoría del ritmo (1921), the Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos carries out an interesting rereading of ancient Pythagoreanism to reorient the symbolic-abstract direction of Western thought, which seems to pave a new line of genealogical exploration of the question of mimesis in a postcolonial context. The aesthetic notion of rhythm, as well as shifting the discourse on mimesis from the visual to the acoustic-emotional dimension, nevertheless presents the characteristics and risks of what Scheler calls “unipathy” or contagion and acquires a particularly important significance when considered as the theoretical premise of the famous Vasconcelian essay The Cosmic Race (1925). …”
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‘Exotic Eroticism’: Gwendolen Harleth and Daniel Deronda by Julia Kuehn

“…A brief overview of recent postcolonial reassessments of the concept of ‘exoticism’, and of Butler's reinterpretation into the context of gender studies, precedes the close reading of the literary text.…”
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‘Senses’: Assessing a Key Term inDavid Chidester’s Analysis of Religion by Johan M. Strijdom

“…Chidester’s analysis of the senses in European Christian discourses on the one hand, and in colonial and postcolonial African indigenous religion and imperial religious studieson the other hand, is compared and assessed. …”
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