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  • Aesthetic interruptions: boda drivers and political expression in Kampala

  • Christine Chalifoux
  • Journal:
    Africa / Volume 95 / Issue 2 / May 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 September 2025, pp. 141-157
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    May 2025
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  • The ubiquitous presence of motorbike taxi drivers on the streets of Kampala, Uganda, has long been the subject of academic inquiry. This article interrogates the visible political symbols displayed on the motorbikes and the clothing of drivers, arguing that the aesthetic choices of drivers offer new ways of imagining Ugandan state pasts and futures. While the 2021 Ugandan presidential election has often been framed as a binary choice between President Museveni and Robert Ssentamu (popularly known by his stage name Bobi Wine), I propose that drivers’ conscious decision to display divergent political symbols must be understood through the history of cosmopolitanism in Kampala. Taking seriously the diversity of political visions suggested by the aesthetic markers of drivers enables us to appreciate the multifaceted challenges and possibilities for Uganda’s political future.

  • AFR volume 95 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Africa / Volume 95 / Issue 2 / May 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 September 2025, pp. f1-f4
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    May 2025
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The Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince
  • Edited by Nicole N. Aljoe
  • Published online:
    24 April 2025
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    08 May 2025
  • The History of Mary Prince was the first account of the life of a Black woman to be published in the United Kingdom. Part of the avalanche of print culture that accompanied the transatlantic abolitionist movement, it has in recent years become an increasingly central text within pedagogy and research on Black history and literature, thanks to its vivid testimonies of Prince's thoughts and feelings about her gendered experience of Caribbean slavery. Embracing and celebrating a growing international scholarly and general interest in African diasporic voices, texts, histories, and literary traditions, this Companion weds contributions from Romanticists, Caribbeanists, and Americanists to showcase the diversity of disciplinary encounters that Prince's narrative invites, as well as its rich and troubled contexts. The first published collection on a single slave narrative or author, the volume is not only an authoritative, highly focused resource for students but also a model for future research.

  • David Hall (193?–2025)

  • Terry Barringer, Barbara Spina
  • Journal:
    Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation ,
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 April 2025, pp. 1-3
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Kielezo cha Insha
  • Shaaban Robert
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    Wits University Press
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    17 April 2025
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    01 December 2024
  • The definitive Kiswahili guide to essay writing with pertinent examples.

    Kielezo cha Insha is the earliest guide to essay writing in Kiswahili, published by Wits University Press in 1954.

    After Tanzania's independence in 1961 the book was not available for several decades because of the political and economic sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa.

    The book covers pertinent issues in composition writing, including the purpose and types of composition, preparation, structure, language and style, cohesion, objectivity and punctuation. It includes 60 model essays together with Robert's thoughts and perspectives on the issues he addresses. The topics include some of the issues current at the time, such as 'secret marriages', culture, the environment, language and nationhood, patriotism, women's oppression, health, and the meaning of life and death.

    After being out of print for more than sixty years, Wits University Press has reissued the text as a testament to its enduring historical value. Kielezo cha Insha is an example of Robert's educational and pedagogical writing at its best.

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