Introduction: Violence and Genocide in African Literature and Film

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Maurice Taonezi Vambe, University of South Africa

Maurice Taonezvi Vambe is Professor of English Literature in the Department of English Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Prof. Vambe has authored numerous articles on Zimbabwean and African literatures. He is the author of African Oral Storytelling Tradition and the Zimbabwean Novel in English (2004) and co-author, with Abebe Zegeye, of Return to the Sources: Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and the Academy (2009). He is also the author of Genocide in African Literatures: Ethics of Metaphors which is to be published in November 2014 by Africa World Press, Asmara/Trenton. His other academic interests are film and genocide, and particularly child soldiers in Africa.

Urther Rwafa, Midlands State University

Urther Rwafa obtained a Doctor of Literature and Philosophy degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is a lecturer in the Department of Film and Theatre Arts at Midlands State University (Zimbabwe). He has written extensively on film and cultural identity; film censorship; film and the representation of the Rwandan genocide; and music as popular culture. His book Un/Muffled Voices: Film Censorship in Zimbabwe will be published in 2014 by African Institute for Culture, Dialogue, Peace and Tolerance Studies.

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2014-06-01

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Vambe, Maurice Taonezi, and Urther Rwafa. 2014. “Introduction: Violence and Genocide in African Literature and Film ”. Journal of Literary Studies 30 (2):3 pages. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/jls/article/view/13886.

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Vol. 30 No. 2 (2014): Violence and Genocide in African Literature and Film

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LASA Conference 2025 – Status Quo and Besides

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