Re-thinking Afropolitanism: the kinship and differences

Anasiudu, Okwudiri

doi:10.1080/14725843.2022.2057278

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“…Such Africans are described as Africanized-cosmopolitans (Tiovanen,2021), or Africans with "polyphonic Africanness" (Anasiudu, 2022) whether they are in the continent or the New African Diaspora. They have an existence whose "social framework and spatial structure are now decentered, and which goes in the direction of both the past and the future " (Mbembe, 2021, p.5).…”

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Transcending Hegemonic Phallic-Culture and Imaginaries: Afropolitan Feminism and Relocation as an Emancipatory Metaphor

Anasiudu

2022

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The representation of the struggles of contemporary African women from low-income/middle-class families, and their attempt at breaking free from the hold of such struggles have not gained much attention in the criticism of recent African novels. To bridge this research gap, this study interrogates Helon Habila‘s Travellers; NoViolet Bulawayo‘s We Need New Names; and Chimamanda Adichie‘s Americanah. It underscores the experiences of Darling, Ifemelu, and Mary, as existential struggles which allegorize real-life challenges of low-income/middle-class contemporary African women, and their attempt to break free from the bounds of such challenges aggravated by a hegemonic phallic culture and imaginaries. Adopting a qualitative content-based analytic method and a conceptual framework anchored on the conflated term Afropolitan-feminism; the study demonstrates how the characters’ dissatisfaction with patriarchal exertions and their local geography animated by limited existential opportunities spurred their desire to relocate outside Africa. Importantly, their relocation constitutes a signature of action which could be read as an emancipatory metaphor for transcending those hegemonic structures, norms, worldviews, and imaginaries which militate against twenty-first-century African women's quest for agency.

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Transcending Hegemonic Phallic-Culture and Imaginaries: Afropolitan Feminism and Relocation as an Emancipatory Metaphor

Anasiudu

2022

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“…To call global attention to this fact, Mbembe and others coined the term Afropolitanism', i.e. a political and cultural stancenotably of Africans, including the African diaspora -concerning the nationhood, race, and the issue of socio-cultural pluralism, Africanised hybridity and social difference in general (Mbembe & Chauvet, 2020;Anasiudu, 2021). gallery play (Rath, 2020).…”

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Machine Ethics and African Identities: Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence in Africa

Kohnert

2022

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Re-thinking Afropolitanism: the kinship and differences

Cited by 2 publications

References 28 publications

Transcending Hegemonic Phallic-Culture and Imaginaries: Afropolitan Feminism and Relocation as an Emancipatory Metaphor

Transcending Hegemonic Phallic-Culture and Imaginaries: Afropolitan Feminism and Relocation as an Emancipatory Metaphor

Machine Ethics and African Identities: Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence in Africa

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