From: Odhoji
Date: Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:04 AM
Subject: publish online in East Africa
As I explained to you we are soliciting for original papers to be published in Post-colonial texts. The journal is peer-reviewed. We look to receiving your article ( submit via online by clicking below and following leads:
** Please circulate to other interested folk.
BMOdhoji
Call for Submissions –
Postcolonial Text: Special Issue: East Africa
Christopher Wanjala (ed.)
Postcolonial Text is an open access, electronic journal, which is both internationally peer-reviewed and accessible to a global readership. The editors now seek submissions for a specially-themed volume on the topic “Literature and Culture in East Africa.” This guest issue on contemporary East African literature will be devoted to the political crises in Africa, and an in-depth analysis of narratives from differently challenged communities and individuals. Of particular concern are texts from the past decade and a half that have been composed at the time multiparty elections were taking place in Kenya and Tanzania, in the early 1990s, and during power-sharing negotiations for Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya being held in hotels in East Africa. All these political events have led to an emerging ethos of democratic rule among citizens of Eastern Africa as an African region. Despite the changes that are clearly visible in the social mobility, migrations, access to jobs, training in ICT, the globalization which favours America and Western countries, yet to be seen are credible institutional reforms to accommodate intra-ethnic coexistence and the nature of the extant identities.
The call here is for papers that analyze political party affiliations based on regional strengths and ethnic loyalties. I welcome essays not only on identity crisis in East Africa, Ethnic Identity, but also on the growth of the various genres of literature in the region. Essays that will enhance theoretical pathways and debates which political and cultural identity crises have engendered. In addition to articles, I invite book reviews, narratives and gnomic forms of oral literature translated into English from East African languages, poems, short stories, and contemporary skits on negative ethnicity. The issue will highlight the new dynamics in East African culture and art in respect of language and other modes of communication and show how theatre practitioners, film makers, and media workers are experimenting with artistic forms in order to communicate with their audience.
Deadline for all submissions is September 30, 2008.
How to submit your contributions:
Go into the journal Web site: http://www.postcolonial.org
1. Register as an Author by clicking on the question “do you wish to
register as an author.”
2. Once registered and logged in, follow the submission process, entering
the title, abstract, and index terms – and click on “Submit” or “Complete” at the bottom of the page.
3. Upload the submission as a Word doc. to “Special Issue on East Africa” section. If you encounter any problems, send queries relating to online submission to Ranjini.Mendis@kwantlen.ca
For other queries, please contact:
Prof Chris L Wanjala (E mail: cwanjala1944@yahoo.co.uk)
University of Nairobi,
P.O.Box 5644
00100 Nairobi, Kenya.