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 ,

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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