Purpose The purpose of this article is to underscore postcolonial approaches that undercut racial inequities as they foster racial equality and inclusivity at higher institutions of learning, especially in racialised ...

This article argues that historical issues that shaped racial relations in Kenya continue to undermine mixed-raceness in social imaginaries. It links the Kenyan public’s stigmatisation of mixed-race couples and mixed-race ...

This article examines how legendary representations enable reinterpretation of the histories of women in Africa. It shows that ascribing heroic and revolutionary qualities to re-membered African women seeks to significantly ...

This article articulates novelists’ constructions of prostitutes’ humanity in the city’s complex spaces that are both enabling and problematic. Through a reading of selected novels in tandem with Kenyan social histories, ...

In a study of dedications in eighteenth-century Croatian religious writing, Zoran Velagic, following Micheline White, observes that few researchers “have explored dedications as complex documents that, among other things, ...

This chapter critiques post-2000 Kenyan novelists’ counter-narratives that reinterpret as they unsettle mis/uses of traumatic pasts reinforced through fiction. Pioneer post-independent Kenya Mau Mau War narratives reconfigured ...

This article explores memory as remembered and re-presented by Valerie Cuthbert (1970) in The Great Siege of Fort Jesus: an Historical Novel. In the article, I reflect on the significance of memory in the novel as agency ...