As the nineteenth century drew to a close and the twentieth century began to take shape, literary expressions of anti-colonialism, racial equality, black pride, and Pan Africanism began to define the mission and vision of ...

This dissertation first seek to analyze and evaluate various arguments that have been put forward by Contemporary Feminist thinkers on critical feminist cultural, gender, identity and race theory. These scholarly discussions ...

Julia Alvarez’s In the Name of Salome, Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge, and Margaret Cézaire Thompson’s The True History of Paradise engage their imagination for memory retrieval to construct new historical narratives ...

The source of motivation for this dissertation is my religious experience as a santera and priestess of the Òrìṣá Argayú (Ǫrányàn; an Òrìṣá, deity) which has led me to study Yorùbá religious discourse in Yorùbá land, and ...