Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation of (Re-)Colonisation

Yaya Fonye Odette

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Contemporary scholarly discourses about decolonising materialities are taking two noticeable trajectories, the first trajectory privileges establishing �connections�, �relationships� and �associations� between human beings and nature. The second trajectory privileges restoration, restitution, reparations for colonial dispossessions, lootings and disinheritance. While the first trajectory presupposes that colonialism was merely about �separation�, �alienation�, and �disconnections� between human beings and nature, the second trajectory stresses the colonialists� dispossession, disinheritance and privations of Africans. Drawing on contemporary discourses about materialities in relation to semiotics, (non-)representationalism, rhetoric, ecocriticism, territorialisation, deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, translation, animism, science and technology studies, this book teases out the intellectually rutted terrain of African materialities. It argues that in a world of increasing impoverishment, the significance of materialities cannot be overemphasised: more so for the continent of Africa where impoverishment �materialises� in the midst of resource opulence. The book is a pacesetter in no holds barred interrogation of African materialities.

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• Anthropology

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• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 28 novembre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9789956764570
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation of (Re-)Colonisation? Symbolisms, Languages, Ecocriticism and (Non) Representationalism in 21st Century Africa

Edited by Artwell Nhemachena, Jairos Kangira and Nelson Mlambo

Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation of (Re-)Colonisation? Symbolisms, Languages, Ecocriticism and (Non)Representationalism in 21st Century Africa Edited by Artwell Nhemachena, Jairos Kangira &Nelson Mlambo L a ng a a R esea rch & P u blishing CIG Mankon, Bamenda

Publisher: LangaaRPCIG Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Region Cameroon [e-mail] www.langaa-rpcig.net Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective [e-mail] www.africanbookscollective.com ISBN-10: 9956-763-94-2 ISBN-13: 978-9956-763-94-8 ©Artwell Nhemachena, Jairos Kangira &Nelson Mlamboe 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or be stored in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher

About the Contributors Dr Artwell Nhemachenaholds a PhD in Social Anthropology; MSc in Sociology and Social Anthropology; BSc Honours Degree in Sociology and a Certificate in Law. He lectures in Sociology at the University of Namibia. His current areas of research interest are Knowledge Studies; Development Studies; Environment; Resilience; Food Security and Food Sovereignty; Industrial Sociology; Conflict and Peace; Transformation; Science and Technology Studies, Democracy and Governance; Relational Ontologies; Decoloniality and Anthropological Jurisprudence. He has published in the areas of social theory, research methods, democracy and governance; conflict and peace; relational ontologies; industrial sociology; development; science and technology studies; anthropological jurisprudence, environment, mining, biotechnology and knowledge studies; transformation and decoloniality. Professor Jairos Kangiraearned his PhD in Rhetoric Studies from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is an international scholar of rhetoric, particularly presidential rhetoric. Prof Kangira has travelled the length and breadth of the world delivering conference papers, guest-lecturing and conducting workshops in universities - the latest workshop being the International Rhetoric Workshop that was held at Uppsala University, Sweden. The workshop was attended by 50 PhD students in rhetoric from across the world. He has published extensively in the field of rhetoric and language. He is the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Namibia (UNAM). Previously, he was the Head of the Department of Language and Literature Studies at UNAM. He was the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zimbabwe before he relocated to Namibia in 2006, joining the then Polytechnic of Namibia (now Namibia University of Science and Technology). Having great interest in research and publication, Prof Kangira successfully established two international journals in Namibia,Nawa Journal of Language and Communication at

NUST in 2007, and theJournal for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciencesat UNAM in 2012, and became the founding editor of both publications. He is also the founding board member of the UNAM Press where he has played a leading role in the publication of many academic books. Prof Kangira’s other qualifications are: a Master of Philosophy in Linguistics, a Special Honours in Linguistics degree and a Certificate in Education from the University of Zimbabwe; a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Africa; and a Postgraduate Certificate in Tertiary Education Management and a Master of Tertiary Education Management from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Prof Kangira has made a great impact in the development of the English language in Namibia. Dr Nelson Mlambo holds degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, University of Namibia and Stellenbosch University. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Language and Literature Studies at the University of Namibia. An author of three books and more than twenty refereed journal articles, Dr Mlambo has also supervised more than fifteen Masters and PhD students. Dr Mlambo’s research interests are in the area of literary studies, particularly focusing on recent theorisations which are of relevance to Africa’s present challenges. Of late Dr Mlambo has been researching on the value of health communication in multilingual societies as well as the significance of postcolonial ecocriticism in genocidal literature, with a specific focus on the Herero/Germany fiction about the genocide. Professor Ruby Magosvongweis an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Zimbabwe. Professor Magosvongwe holds a DPhil from the University of Cape Town, Master of Arts Degree in English, Bachelor of Arts Special Honours in English Degree, Bachelor of Arts Degree and Graduate Certificate in Education, all from the University of Zimbabwe. Professor Magosvongwe is also a Research Fellow with the English Department, University of the Free State, South Africa. With effect from March 2017, she was appointed the interimEditor-in-Chief, ofZambeziaof Zimbabwe’s Journal of the Humanities. University Professor Magosvongwe is the current Chairperson of the

Department of English, University of Zimbabwe where she currently lectures English Literature and African Literature. She has co-edited and publishedAfrican Womanhood: Emerging Perspectives on Zimbabwean Women’s Writing in Indigenous Languages (2006), College Press, with Zifikile Mguni;Rediscoursing African Womanhood in the Search for Sustainable Renaissance: Africana Womanism in Multi-disciplinary Approaches, College Press (2012), with Zifikile Mguni, Itai Muhwati and Tavengwa Gwekwerere;Dialoguing Land and Identity in Zimbabwe and other Developing Countries: Emerging Perspectives(2015), with Zifikile Makwavarara and Obed Mlambo;Africa’s Intangible Heritage andLand: Emerging Perspectiveswith Obed Mlambo and Even though (2016), Ndlovu. She has also widely published in Literature and Gender, African Literature and Comparative Literature. She is the current Chairperson of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair Association General Council and has also been recently appointed a Board Member of the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe. Lázaro Pedro Chissano is an English-Portuguese Translator. In 2016, he graduated from the University of Namibia, where he obtained the degree of Master of Arts in English Studies. He also holds BA (Honours) in Translation and Interpretation from Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique. He is currently employed as Translator (Portuguese) at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) at its Headquarters in Gaborone, Botswana. Before joining the Secretariat, he worked for four years as a legal translator (Portuguese) at the SADC Tribunal in Windhoek, Namibia. His research interests have been focused on political rhetoric in Southern African countries. Dr Tapiwa Victor Warikandwaholds a Doctor of Laws. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Namibia. He specializes in International Trade Law, Labour Law, Indigenisation Laws, Mining Law and Constitutional Law amongst other disciplines. Prior to coming to Namibia, Dr. Warikandwa worked as a legal officer and later legal advisor in the Ministry of Public Service Labour and Social Welfare in Zimbabwe. Key amongst his duties was legal drafting. Dr Warikandwa worked with the law reviser of the Ministry of Justice in Zimbabwe in reviewing

laws administered by the Ministry of Public Service Labour and Social Welfare. Dr Warikandwa also completed an ordinary and advanced training in Labour Law Making at the International Labour Organization’s International Training Centre in Turin Italy. On numerous occasions, Dr. Warikandwa was actively involved in the activities of the Cabinet Committee on Legislation on behalf of the Ministry of Public Service Labour and Social Welfare. Dr. Warikandwa has since written books on labour law and women’s rights in South Africa and Namibia amongst others, as well as publishing articles in accredited peer reviewed journals such as Law, Development and Democracy, Speculum Juris, Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Comparative International Law Journal for Southern Africa and the African Journal of International and Comparative Law, amongst others. Dr. Warikandwa has also been awarded a number of merit based scholarships and has served as a Post-doctoral Fellow with the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. He has also worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Fort Hare and presented papers at conferences in and outside South Africa. Dr Warikandwa studied for his Bachelor of Laws, Master’s degree and Doctoral degree at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. Dr Munetsi Ruzivoholds a PhD in Religious Studies. He is a Senior Lecturer for Christian History and Thought, and Christianity in Africa. He is based in the Department of Religious Studies, Classics and Philosophy at the University of Zimbabwe. Juliet Sylvia Pasiis a lecturer in the Department of Communication at the Namibia University of Science and Technology. She teaches linguistics, communication and literature courses to Undergraduate, Honours and Masters Degree students. She holds a Masters in English Degree, an Honours Degree in English, a Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Zimbabwe and an on-line Certificate on Building Teaching Skills through the Interactive Web from the University of Oregon. Her research interests are in gendered identities, ecocriticism and ecofeminism and children's literature. A number of her articles in these areas have been

published in academic journals. She is currently pursuing Doctoral studies at the University of South Africa. Njabulo Chipanguraemployed by the National Museums and is Monuments of Zimbabwe as an archaeologist and is based in Eastern Zimbabwe at Mutare Museum. His research interests include looking at the configuration and reconfiguration of museum collection and exhibition practices within colonial and post-colonial settings. He has also carried out research on the hosting of cultural festivals at heritage sites specifically looking at the dissemination of public culture at these festivals and how they give communities a sense of heritage ownership. His other research focus is on the different classifications of heritage in Zimbabwe with an interest on the category of colonial historic buildings and he has looked at how it has lost relevancy in the present conservation discourse. This research saw him critically analysing the emergence of the category of liberation war heritage in the country and how it has seemingly supplanted all the other forms of heritage in terms of conservation priority. This research was extended to take an inside look at liberation war heritage and he analysed the narratives that have emerged from exhumation exercises of liberation war fighters which he has been involved in as an archaeologist. He is currently a Wenner Gren PhD Fellow in the Anthropology Department at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. His PhD research looks at the archaeological, ethnographic and historical characteristics of artisanal and small scale mining of gold in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. In this research, he intends to establish the historical connection between ancient gold mining and contemporary artisanal mining by ‘illegal miners’ who are presently exploiting the gold reef around Mutanda cultural landscape. Pauline Chiripanhuraholds a BA Honours Degree in Archaeology and a Master’s Degree in Heritage studies from the University of Zimbabwe. In 2014, she began full-time study towards a PhD in Archaeology with the University of Cape Town. She recently submitted her PhD thesis for examination. She works as a Curator of Archaeology at Mutare museum which is administered by the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (hereafter

NMMZ), since 2012. She has researched a lot on legacy collections housed in Zimbabwe museums and is working on publishing her findings. She also researched and mounted a permanent exhibition at Mutare museum, the first post-independence permanent exhibition within NMMZ. Martin Uadialeis an academic, scholar, and researcher. He has held fellowships, won laureateships and grants. He was an international researcher at the Center for Trans-Atlantic Relations, Paul H. Nitze’s School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., United States of America; Leading to the completion of a book chapter in a recently published book: Dark Networks in the Atlantic Basin: Emerging Trends andImplications for Human Security, published by Johns Hopkins University and The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. He is also a scholar-in- residence, at the Minerva Center for the Study of the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, at the University of Haifa, Israel. He has since 2014 being a Scholar at The Democratic Governance Institute, of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal. He was at the Harvard Law School, Institute of Global Law and Policy (IGLP), New England, Massachusetts, United States. He is currently completing a thesis on: Neo-liberal Spatial Dynamics and Applied Agrarian Political Economy, at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria. His most recent published works includes;Boko Haram; A Concoction of State Failure, Elite-Class Competition and Alienation in Nigeria, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, United Kingdom, 2017;,Land Grabs, Food Sovereignty and Sustainable Development, in, Agenda 2030 and Africa`s Development in the Twenty-First Century,published by the United Nations University, International Institute of Global Health, Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia, 2017. Awala-Ale Anirejuoritse attended Benson Idahosa University for undergraduate studies. He graduated with second-class honours, upper division (2:1) in International Studies and Diplomacy. His postgraduate studies were based at Coventry University where he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts, with distinction in International Relations.

Dolphin Mabaleobtained her Master of Arts degree in Anthropology at the UniversityVenda, South Africa. She also of graduated with the Postgraduate Diploma in Arts specialising in Heritage Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her areas of specialisation are AnthropologyHerita and ge Studies, with a focus on Public Culture and Politics of Identity. Mabale is currently employed by her alma mater, the University of Venda, as ajunior lecturer in Anthropologyand Archaeologyat the E’skia Mphahlele Centre for African Studies, since 2008. Coletta M. Kandemiricurrently a student at the University of is Namibia in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is completing Master of Arts in English Studies. Her main interest is in literature that relates to social life, and her passion for literature is driven by the fact that literature is all about “creatures” called human beings. Kandemiri has the following publications which are mainly in literature:Interrogating the Literary Representations of an Exceptional Group in Society - Old eople; Articulating the Unsayables; Multifaceted Didacticism of Ba’s So Long a Letter; Healing approaches: African versus Western Approaches in Chinodya’sStrife. She has five newspaper publications, in a local Namibian newspaper, on different topics from the courses that were offered in her master studies. Also, forthcoming are her two book chapters in literature and one paper on academic writing. She obtained her first degree at the University of Zimbabwe after which she joined the University of Namibia to complete a B.A (Hons.) degree before enrolling for a Master of Arts in English Studies degree. She sees literature as a point from which all other life affairs stem from. Okom Emmanuel Otegwuis a Nigerian and a PhD student with the Department of French and Francophone Studies, School of Language, Literature and Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. His area of study is on translation and mediation in the teaching of French as a Foreign Language. He has lectured, in Federal College of Education, Yola, Nigeria, for a decade before transferring to Nigeria French Language Village, Inter-University Centre, Ajara – Badagry, Lagos, Nigeria. He holds a B.A Education/French from