Kuvaka ukama--building bridges
Subtitle: a tribute to Flora Veit-Wild
By: edited by Julius Heinicke ... [et al.].
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Kalliope Paperbacks
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9783981495300
Subjects: African Arts; African literature; Africanists; History and criticism
Other titles: Building bridges
Notes: Festschrift.

Includes bibliographical references.

English, and poems in Shona and Swahili (one of each) with English translations.
Table of contents: title: Maiguru Flora  -- Chiedza Musengezi; title: Researching with life and limb: a personal tribute to Flora Veit-Wild and Edith Ehekweazu  -- Marion Pape; title: Letter to a friend  -- Liselotte Glage; title: "I learned to work and not to live": the life and work of the German-Jewish female academic Käte Laserstein  -- Maria Kublitz-Kramer; title: "What is Africa to me?": meanings of Africa for a "first-family" Afro-German  -- Anne Adams; title: "A friend in need is a friend indeed": a Northern Sotho fable  -- Annekie Joubert; title: Flora Veit-Wild: mentor, vakoma, friend  -- Shumirai Nyota; title: Poems  -- Lesego Rampolokeng; title: Spoken word goes digital: new forms of literary expression in Southern Africa  -- Ricarda de Haas; title: The sympathetic imagination in J.M. Coetzee's Summertime  -- Hilmar Heister; title: Modern literature and the invention of modernity's 'authentic' other: a comparative German-African case study of Hans Paasche's Lukanga Mukara, Erich Scheurmann's Papalagi and Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lawino  -- Frank Schulze-Engler; title: "Do not uproot the pumpkin": commemorating the 30th anniversary of Okot p'Bitek's death  -- Bettina Weiss; title: Justo Bolekia Boleká: searching for a new profile of the Bubi community  -- Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger; title: Francophone African literatures in the German academia between Romance studies and African studies: a critical evaluation and an appeal for recognition  -- Susanne Gehrmann; title: Antaeus  -- Helon Habila; title: Myth, poetry, and social vision: a reading of Maik Nwosu's Suns of Kush  -- Sule Egya; title: Josiah Afful's Schooldays: nostalgia and social change in the (West) African school story  -- Tobias Robert Klein; title: Women in Birago Diop's Tales of Amadou Koumba  -- Kahiudi Claver Mabana; title: Truth and reconciliation, or masculine redemption at the Cape of Good Hope?: religious legitimation of national constructions of gender  -- Ulrike Auga; title: Mandara's kingdom  -- Jane Bryce; title: Mabhasikoro--Bicycles  -- Chirikure Chirikure; title: Art festivals as laboratories of the postcolonial predicament in Africa  -- Tobias Wendl; title: Talking about art in Dakar  -- Eileen Julien; title: Contesting African-ness in African film criticism: Djibril Diop Manbéty's Hyenas  -- Dirk Naguschewski; title: Performing the public sphere: theatre in current Zimbabwe  -- Julius Heinicke; title: "Stark raving sane" or playing Kupenga kwa Hamlet (The Madness of Hamlet): Tonderai Munyevu in conversation  -- Christine Matzke; title: Wasifu wa Siti Maua binti Wazi--Life and times of Siti Maua binti Wazi -- Luti/Lutz Diegner.