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"Ghana Fiction."
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So much for democracy
The political upheaval in Ghana in 1979 puts Astrid and the rest of her Canadian family at risk.
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The god child
\"Maya is the only child of an expat Ghanaian couple based in Germany, where as the sole African girl in her school, the pressure is on her to succeed. While her father is taciturn and reserved, her mother-heir to a crumbling dynasty in Ghana-is glamorous and charismatic s both in awe of and intimidated by her overbearing beauty and her ability to command a room, especially with tales of the family's former glory that seem so far removed from Maya's reality. But when Maya's mother adopts her god child, Kojo, his mission to heal their story begins to bring to Maya the sense of possibility and purpose she has longed for.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Cosmopolitanism with African roots. Afropolitanism's ambivalent mobilities
This paper explores some aspects of the controversy which is now surrounding Afropolitanism, and examines the philosophical and literary output in relation to the concept. Mobility between spaces, in the cosmopolitan tradition, as well as digital mobility and visibility through the use of social media, are considered as key elements of Afropolitanism as a diasporic movement. So Afropolitanism can be described as a form of cosmopolitanism with African roots. However, the commodification of the term as a brand, and the class bias of Afropolitan lifestyle are more problematic. In the second part of the paper, the positions of African intellectuals are shown to convey more philosophical depth and moral relevance to Afropolitanism. In this vision of the concept, as it was initiated by Achille Mbembe, Afropolitanism is relevant for both the diaspora and for Africa. Afropolitanism in this understanding of it decentres, de-essentializes and valorizes the continent. The paper closes with readings of two novels of celebrated writers of the Afropolitan generation, namely Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go and Teju Cole's Open City. These novels feature complex Afropolitan characters and create a dense literary landscape through which to explore contemporary Afro-diasporic identity politics. The spatial and cultural mobilities expressed in this literature confirm Mbembe's repositioning of Africa as a philosophical locus of passage and mobility.
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No place like home: the anxiety of return in Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor's Dust
Popularised by Taiye Selasi, \"Afropoliran\" foregrounds the sense of belonging to the African continent for a young diasporic generation. This emphasis on Africa's centrality marks an interesting reconceptualisation of diaspora, usually rendered in terms of destination, in relation to the originary point of departure, one that is discernible particularly in recent fiction about the African diaspora. In Selasi's Ghana Must Go (2013) and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor's Dust (2014), Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana loom large in the imaginations of its diasporic protagonists. Yet neither novel frames the African \"home\" as a straightforwardly celebratory location, and the prospect of the return is one characterised by paradox, for it is an outcome both deeply desired and feared. This essay explores how both novels deploy narrative strategies to dramatise and work through the anxiety of the homecoming for today's Afropolitans. Ultimately, although the experience of the Afropolitan subject is portrayed as melancholic, the positioning of Africa as central to the contemporary diasporic experience is read here as a progressively utopian gesture./ Popularisé par Taiye Selasi, le terme « afropolitain » met en évidence le sentiment d'appartenance au continent africain chez les jeunes générations diasporiques. Cette insistance sur la centralité africaine témoigne d'une intéressante reconceptualisation de la diaspora, généralement envisagée en tertnes de destination et en reference au point de depart originel, une reconceptualisation particulièrement perceptible dans la fiction récente sur la diaspora africaine. Dans Ghana Must Go de Selasi (2013) et Dust d'Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (2014), l'imaginaire des personnages principaux, issus de la diaspora, semble aimanté par le Nigeria, le Kenya et le Ghana. Pourtant, aucun de ces deux romans ne campe « le foyer » africain comme un lieu a célébrer sans am bigultés, et la perspective du retour apparalt paradoxale, dans la mesure où est objet de crainte, autant que de désir. Le present article etudie les strategies narratives que ces romans déploient en vue de dramatiser et de négocier les anxiétés du retour chez les Afro politains d'aujourd'hui. En dernier ressort, et quoique l'expérience du sujet afropolitain soit dépeinte comme mélancolique, l'opération plaçant l'Afrique au centre de lexperience diasporique contemporaine apparaît ici comme un geste utopique et porteur de progrès.
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How Did They Come to This?: Afropolitanism, Migration, and Displacement
In a comparison of three recent novels, this article examines representations of migration within the “new African diaspora” that explore divergent experiences within that global space. In particular, it argues that the “Afropolitanism” held up in two of the novels as an emerging avenue of African agency to transcend the strictures of nationalism in fact represents a position of privilege granted within the framework of nation-state power. By putting these novels in conversation and juxtaposing characters on both sides of that privilege (legal and illegal, wealthy and impoverished, liberated and displaced), this article elucidates the degree to which these portrayals of migration recognize and interrogate the power structures inherent in immigration policies that help to create such differential experiences. Though not directly challenging the value of Afropolitanism, the article calls for careful examination of its conditions and possibilities—who has access to its agency, under what structures of privilege, and to what consequence for those excluded?
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