Emmanuel Ngwira
Biographic Data
| ID | 1263646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emmanuel Ngwira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emmanuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngwira |
| SIGNATURE | NGWIRA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malawi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1557-8916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Migration, Borders and Precarity in Massa Lemu’s Selected Conceptual Art Projects
This paper focuses on how Massa Lemu, a Malawian artist living and working in the United States of America, reflects on and interrogates migrant experiences through three of his conceptual art projects namely Passages for the Undocumented (2010–2012), Stamp Collector: Coyotes (2016) and Precariot (2013–2016). Using the critical discourse analysis approach and drawing on studies on migrant arts in general and conceptual art in particular as well a…
Meme-ing Malawi’s 2019 presidential election
On 21 May 2019, Malawi went to the polls to elect leaders in what turned out to be highly contested presidential, parliamentary and local government elections. Compared to previous elections, the 2019 tripartite elections also featured highly on social media. Focusing on the presidential election, this article analyses how these elections were depicted in popular imagination particularly in internet memes. Our contention is that the internet meme…
Viral giggles
Social media played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic both as a tool for communicating COVID-19-related messages and as a platform for sharing lighter moments during the distressful time. My article focuses on these lighter moments in the form of internet memes. My interest is on internet memes shared by the cyber public in Malawi. I contend that besides the humour, the memes carry insightful commentary on and criticism of society’s rea…
Daughterly texts”
This article analyzes how the relationship between fathers and daughters is portrayed in Zoë Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. The paper observes that in these texts, daughters occupy spaces, both in and outside the home, that are usually considered reserved for sons who are often groomed as heirs to their fathers’ worlds. Drawing on discourse on women, history and the nation, particular…
Moyo wa Mtauni
Cities in Africa and beyond have been sites of conflicting and contradictory associations in human cultures from their very beginning. Some regard the African city as a place of hope and fulfilment, freedom and opportunity, while others view it as an emblem of cultural decay and a nexus of corruption, perversion, greed, destruction and death. In this article we explore these ambivalent attitudes towards the city and urban life by focusing on Mala…
Gendering the transnational
This paper analyses how selected stories from Zoë Wicomb’s The One That Got Away (2008) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck (2009) explore transnational migration from women’s perspectives. The paper explores how the African woman migrant’s experiences allow alternative readings of migrant existence. Significantly present in the stories analysed in this paper are cultural and historical artefacts that protagonists engage wit…
Reading the Garden(ing) Trope in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light
This article examines how gardening in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light is symbolic of efforts to cultivate white identity. It argues that gardening is a significant trope in the novel where the Campbells’ meticulous tending of their garden echoes their efforts to cultivate and nurture white identities by repressing their coloured past. The article employs Zygmunt Bauman’s idea of “the gardening state” to appreciate the Campbells’ attempts to cu…
Daughterly texts”
This article analyzes how the relationship between fathers and daughters is portrayed in Zoë Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. The paper observes that in these texts, daughters occupy spaces, both in and outside the home, that are usually considered reserved for sons who are often groomed as heirs to their fathers’ worlds. Drawing on discourse on women, history and the nation, particular…
Gendering the transnational
This paper analyses how selected stories from Zoë Wicomb’s The One That Got Away (2008) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck (2009) explore transnational migration from women’s perspectives. The paper explores how the African woman migrant’s experiences allow alternative readings of migrant existence. Significantly present in the stories analysed in this paper are cultural and historical artefacts that protagonists engage wit…
Reading the Garden(ing) Trope in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light
This article examines how gardening in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light is symbolic of efforts to cultivate white identity. It argues that gardening is a significant trope in the novel where the Campbells’ meticulous tending of their garden echoes their efforts to cultivate and nurture white identities by repressing their coloured past. The article employs Zygmunt Bauman’s idea of “the gardening state” to appreciate the Campbells’ attempts to cu…
Gendering the transnational
This paper analyses how selected stories from Zoë Wicomb’s The One That Got Away (2008) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck (2009) explore transnational migration from women’s perspectives. The paper explores how the African woman migrant’s experiences allow alternative readings of migrant existence. Significantly present in the stories analysed in this paper are cultural and historical artefacts that protagonists engage wit…
Moyo wa Mtauni
Cities in Africa and beyond have been sites of conflicting and contradictory associations in human cultures from their very beginning. Some regard the African city as a place of hope and fulfilment, freedom and opportunity, while others view it as an emblem of cultural decay and a nexus of corruption, perversion, greed, destruction and death. In this article we explore these ambivalent attitudes towards the city and urban life by focusing on Mala…
Daughterly texts”
This article analyzes how the relationship between fathers and daughters is portrayed in Zoë Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. The paper observes that in these texts, daughters occupy spaces, both in and outside the home, that are usually considered reserved for sons who are often groomed as heirs to their fathers’ worlds. Drawing on discourse on women, history and the nation, particular…
Viral giggles
Social media played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic both as a tool for communicating COVID-19-related messages and as a platform for sharing lighter moments during the distressful time. My article focuses on these lighter moments in the form of internet memes. My interest is on internet memes shared by the cyber public in Malawi. I contend that besides the humour, the memes carry insightful commentary on and criticism of society’s rea…
Meme-ing Malawi’s 2019 presidential election
On 21 May 2019, Malawi went to the polls to elect leaders in what turned out to be highly contested presidential, parliamentary and local government elections. Compared to previous elections, the 2019 tripartite elections also featured highly on social media. Focusing on the presidential election, this article analyses how these elections were depicted in popular imagination particularly in internet memes. Our contention is that the internet meme…
Migration, Borders and Precarity in Massa Lemu’s Selected Conceptual Art Projects
This paper focuses on how Massa Lemu, a Malawian artist living and working in the United States of America, reflects on and interrogates migrant experiences through three of his conceptual art projects namely Passages for the Undocumented (2010–2012), Stamp Collector: Coyotes (2016) and Precariot (2013–2016). Using the critical discourse analysis approach and drawing on studies on migrant arts in general and conceptual art in particular as well a…
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works)