« Un morceau de bois sous l’eau ne deviendra jamais caïman ». proverbe cité dans Djeli, conte d’aujourd’hui, film de Fakika Kramo-Lanciné (Côte d’Ivoire, 1981)Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Postconialism… Les Anglo-saxons auraient-ils…

There were probably fewer theories about the sex of angels than there are versions and interpretations of postcolonialism in the Anglophone world. The origins of the term are, however, clear.…

In a previous interview (Africultures 13, Dec. 1998), Abdelwahab Meddeb called for an end to North Africa’s inhibitions about its African identity. Here, he similarly calls for a meditation on…

On the trail of the black movements in France in the first half of the twentieth century. The troubling persistence of representations, and the unity the black world draws from…

And what if the virtual absence of debate on post-colonialism in France were related to its close history with Africa, more a continuity than a rupture?

How would you describe the emergence of a post-colonial aesthetic? Adriano Mixinge outlines major trends in African sensitivity and logic using the idea of the crossing much cherished by Jean-Godefroy…

In her book Siting Translation, Indian academic Tejaswini Niranjana takes a fresh look at accepted translation theory. She discusses the inequalities between languages, linguistic and cultural domination and the manipulative…

Postcolonialism in film theory still only rarely tackles the question of difference head on. And yet, it is thus that it could encourage Western critical discourse at last to focus…