Peter Nazareth

Green Is the Colour

Subtitle: Carbon footprinting is one of the reefer industrys biggest issues. John Fossey reports on South Africas Colors Fruit Holdings groups efforts to cut its emissions and make its cold chain greener.

The Social Responsibility of the East African Writer

Speaking on the development of writing in East Africa at the University of He, Nigeria, in 1968, David Rubadiri said that the colonial experience en veloped everything and almost stifled any indigenous attempt at expression through the newly acquired language. If one passed through a secondary school in East Africa, he said, the best one came out with was an ability to write a composition or a letter in the best basic English and the best gram mar. Rubadiri noted that when the East African writer started to write

Coloured Man's Burden-Albert Wendt

Albert Wendt is the first Samoan novelist to be published. It is inevitable, therefore, that we should read him to find out about the Samoans from the inside: what are they like, how do they live, how do they work, how do they dress, what are their religious beliefs, how do they see the world? In other ~words, we would read Albert Wendt for anthropological information about the Samoans, presented with the pen of an imaginative writer. Such expectations are fulfilled, as we see from the following examples:

Nineteen Fifty-Five“: Alice, Elvis And The Black Matrix

I teach the story “Nineteen Fifty-five” by Alice Walker in my class “Elvis as Anthology“ at the University of Iowa. The story is narrated by Gracie Mae Still, an African American singer, who, though initially cautious, develops a close relationship with the singer Traynor.2 Critics such as Greil Marcus, Todd Rheingold and more recently Michael T. Bertrand assume that the narrator is a thinly disguised Big Mama Thornton (real name Willie Mae Thornton) who sang the original version of “Hound Dog” in 1953, a song which Elvis recorded in 1956 and which was a no. 1 hit for him on the rhythm & blues (later called Soul or Black Music) charts (as Big Mama Thornton’s version had been) and on the pop charts. Traynor seems to be Elvis because Gracie Mae says he comes to see her in 1955, sings and records her song, is in the army in 1960, believes he has made a lot of “dumb movies,” makes a comeback in 1968, and dies in 1977, all events and dates that connect with Elvis‘s life and death. Furthermore, although the song is not named, there is a reference to “hound dogs” in the story. Traynor says to Gracie Mae:

The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Africa Australia Caribbean New Zealand and South Pacific South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan) South East Asia Trans-cultural writing.

Faces of Islam in African Literature

In the works of many prominent African writers, Islam provides a key component, and yet until now Islam has been ignored, unseen or glossed over in English literary criticism. This volume redresses this imbalance and focuses on Islam in the works of authors such as Camara Laye, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Sembene Ousmane, Birago Diop and Hampate Ba. It also includes studies on Songhay epics, Swahili and Somali poetry, Senegalese film, and the role of Sufism and Mouridism.