Research Areas

1. The African Novel and 21st Century Migration 2. African/Malawian Popular Arts in the Digital Age. 3. Contemporary Spoken word and Vernacular Poetry in Malawi 4. Refugees Creative Arts in Malawi 5. African Popular Culture in the Digital Age,

Profile

Emmanuel Ngwira holds a PhD (English Studies) from Stellenbosch University, South Africa‎. He is a literary and cultural critic and Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Malawi where he teaches (African) literature and popular arts.

Publications

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  “Educating for marginalization: Normative implications of the Malawian medium of instruction policy”, Multilingual Margins, 2021. (2021)
  

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  Daughterly Texts: Fathers and their daughters in Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town and Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. Journal of the African Literature Association, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2020.1786930 (2020)
  

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  Moyo wa Mtauni: Imagining the city in Malawian Popular Music. Muziki, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/18125980.2020.1777187 (2020)
  

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  Row: A Thinkivist Art Intervention. Nordia Geographical Publications, 47: 5, 2018: 39–54. (2018)
  

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  A Country Laughing at Itself: Malawian Humour in the Digital Age. English Studies in Africa, 61.2, 2018: 21-35. (2018)
  

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  ‘Black on the inside’: albino subjectivity in the African novel. Disability and the Global South, 5: 2, 2018: 1472-1487 (2018)
  

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  Daughters of Eve: Portrayal of the Female Body in Selected HIV/AIDS Songs in Malawi. Journal of Humanities 25.2, 2017: 94-111. (2017)
  

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  Gendering the Transnational: history, migration and material culture in Zoe Wicomb’s The One That Got Away and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck. Social Dynamics 43.2, 2017: 286-297. (2017)
  

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  “Reading the Gardening Trope in Zoe Wicomb’s Playing in the Light” Current Writing 28(2), 2016: 184-192. (2016)
  

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  ‘He Writes About the World That Remained Silent’: Witnessing Authorship in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. English Studies in Africa 55.2 (2012): 43-53. (2012)
  

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