Emerging Perspectives On Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa honors the celebrated Mozambican writer, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, who was awarded the 2007 José Craveirinha Prize for his Os Sobreviventes da Noite (Survivors of the Night).

A solid examination of Lusophone African works from a critical, cultural-theoretical vantage point. The interviews with authors open windows of light while analysis is convincingly rooted through African eyes, particularly Yoruba eyes."-Donald Burness, Franklin Pierce College

Ilê Aiyê's unifying identity politics through Afro-Carnival performance, is embedded in its dialectical relationship with the rest of Brazil as it takes ownership of its oppressed status by striving for racial equality and economic empowerment. Against this complex background, performative...

This book examines the cultural and spiritual connections between Africa and the New World where values continue to survive, thrive, and reverberate in the soul, politics, and creative expressions of Africa.