Theresah Patrine Ennin

University of Cape Coast | UCC · Department of English

Francis Selormey’s The Narrow Path and Asare Konadu’s A Woman in Her Prime are two novels that add to the rich Ghanaian literary tradition through their exploration of human relationships and the roles men play in these relationships. Despite gaining a cult readership, these texts have largely been ignored by scholars. This paper examines the men i...

This paper explores masculinity and migration, analyzing the complex processes of sustaining manhood in a differentenvironment in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon. The paper argues that the fraught nature of the migrant experiencecontributes to the creation of toxic masculinities and the perpetuation of gender-based exploitation of the female. Migra...

The COVID-19 outbreak effects and related state responses, especially mobility restriction interventions, contributed to disruption in livelihoods in the coastal communities in Ghana. This paper uses an ethnographic approach to analyse the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and coping strategies adopted by small-scale fishers, fish traders and proces...

There are a number of memoirs/autobiographies and biographies by African writers on their childhoods in Africa. However, many of these texts tend to focus mostly on the child protagonist�s experiences of colonialism, slavery, war, death and deprivation. This article moves away from these narratives of deprivation and trauma, focusing on other versi...

This paper explores Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun as a novel of formation with respect to its portrayal of Ugwu, one of the main focalisers of the novel. The novel follows the representation of Ugwu as he develops from a young house boy till he matures to become the chronicler of his people's war time experience. A core propositio...

The recent incident in Minneapolis, United States, where George Floyd, an African-American man, was manhandled by a police officer has brought about the resurgence of racial awareness as championed by the Black Lives Matter Movement. The concept of race has shaped the lives of so many generations and continues to do so in the 21 st century. Racial...

African literature is famous for the depiction of a type of politics that tends to reflect the reality on the ground, spanning a panorama of incompetent leadership to gross political corruption. As a result, writing about politics in Africa tends to be a risky undertaking as many creative writers who criticize political leadership and corrupt pract...

Names as markers of identity are a source of a wide variety of information. This paper explores the names of characters to show the sociocultural factors which influence the choice of names and the effects that the names of these characters have on the roles they play. Using a variety of personal names from Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments, Buchi Emechet...

In recent times, a lot of studies have been conducted on language use in African literary studies, focusing on literary devices such as metaphor, foreshadowing, imagery. This paper investigates the use of code switching and code mixing in three African novels in order to ascertain how these devices contribute to the stylistic effects of the African...

The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa are two texts that focus on issues of manhood and masculinity in traditional Ghana. These writers subvert the normalization of hegemonic masculinity vaunted by society and to which many of the men in society ascribe. By throwing a critical lens on the male protagonists in the texts as gendered...