Serah Namulisa Kasembeli
Biographic Data
| ID | 203117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Serah Namulisa Kasembeli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Serah Namulisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Kasembeli |
| SIGNATURE | KASEMBELI S N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6430-6832 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Female Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is historically structured as masculine, often through the voices of slave trade merchants, Arab Sultans, male white missionaries, and male white colonial settlers who dominated the Eastern African archipelago. This article reads Swahili culture and its relationship to the Indian Ocean to offer a gendered analysis of Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s House of Rust . The article argues that the novel subverts male-dominated Indian Ocean n…
Blue Stories
Stereotypes and the Ambiguities of Humour in Kenya
The Churchill Show is a weekly live and recorded comedy show, originally staged at the Carnivore Grounds in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and later hosted in various parts of the country. The live recordings were disseminated on Kenya’s NTV television network and published on YouTube by Laugh Industry Limited and NTV Kenya. The Churchill Show’s theme song includes a reference to bringing Kenyans back together, and the so-called ethnic jokes in the sh…
Slow Research and Peer Support
Cape Littoral colonial constructions of barrenness and desire in Therese Benadé'sKites of Good Fortuneand Rayda Jacobs'sThe Slave Book
Early histories of the Cape refer to a remote littoral; uninhabitable land with a difficult terrain and hostile environment. Yet, the Cape Littoral was also described as desirable by the Dutch East India Company for its establishment as a provision fort on the sea route to Asia. This paper examines how two novels published in the post-apartheid present (Kites of Good Fortune (2004) and The Slave Book (1998)), reimagine the inventions of these two…
The South African Student #Fallist Movements
The embodied reading strategy I develop in this article provides us with an alternative to the large literature that reads #RMF from the global North. My argument is that this approach is crucial if we are to understand the South African student movements from locations elsewhere across Africa. This highlights the connections and disconnections between the many histories of decolonisation across the African continent. The attention to the geo-his…
Of Oceanic Crossings and Discordant Cultural Adaptations in Post-apartheid Neo-slave Narration
This paper adopts the sea as a productive metaphor to interrogate colonial and apartheid constructions that silence African Indian Ocean cultures. It analyses Therese Benadé’s debut novel, Kites of Good Fortune (2004) to show that whereas the novel depicts the Cape Peninsula as an oceanic crossroads, it rejects the cultural hybridity of the Indian and the Atlantic Oceans. Here, I look towards the sea to examine ‘oceanic crossings’ as a precursor …
The South African Student #Fallist Movements
The embodied reading strategy I develop in this article provides us with an alternative to the large literature that reads #RMF from the global North. My argument is that this approach is crucial if we are to understand the South African student movements from locations elsewhere across Africa. This highlights the connections and disconnections between the many histories of decolonisation across the African continent. The attention to the geo-his…
Stereotypes and the Ambiguities of Humour in Kenya
The Churchill Show is a weekly live and recorded comedy show, originally staged at the Carnivore Grounds in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and later hosted in various parts of the country. The live recordings were disseminated on Kenya’s NTV television network and published on YouTube by Laugh Industry Limited and NTV Kenya. The Churchill Show’s theme song includes a reference to bringing Kenyans back together, and the so-called ethnic jokes in the sh…
Cape Littoral colonial constructions of barrenness and desire in Therese Benadé'sKites of Good Fortuneand Rayda Jacobs'sThe Slave Book
Early histories of the Cape refer to a remote littoral; uninhabitable land with a difficult terrain and hostile environment. Yet, the Cape Littoral was also described as desirable by the Dutch East India Company for its establishment as a provision fort on the sea route to Asia. This paper examines how two novels published in the post-apartheid present (Kites of Good Fortune (2004) and The Slave Book (1998)), reimagine the inventions of these two…
Of Oceanic Crossings and Discordant Cultural Adaptations in Post-apartheid Neo-slave Narration
This paper adopts the sea as a productive metaphor to interrogate colonial and apartheid constructions that silence African Indian Ocean cultures. It analyses Therese Benadé’s debut novel, Kites of Good Fortune (2004) to show that whereas the novel depicts the Cape Peninsula as an oceanic crossroads, it rejects the cultural hybridity of the Indian and the Atlantic Oceans. Here, I look towards the sea to examine ‘oceanic crossings’ as a precursor …
The South African Student #Fallist Movements
The embodied reading strategy I develop in this article provides us with an alternative to the large literature that reads #RMF from the global North. My argument is that this approach is crucial if we are to understand the South African student movements from locations elsewhere across Africa. This highlights the connections and disconnections between the many histories of decolonisation across the African continent. The attention to the geo-his…
Cape Littoral colonial constructions of barrenness and desire in Therese Benadé'sKites of Good Fortuneand Rayda Jacobs'sThe Slave Book
Early histories of the Cape refer to a remote littoral; uninhabitable land with a difficult terrain and hostile environment. Yet, the Cape Littoral was also described as desirable by the Dutch East India Company for its establishment as a provision fort on the sea route to Asia. This paper examines how two novels published in the post-apartheid present (Kites of Good Fortune (2004) and The Slave Book (1998)), reimagine the inventions of these two…
Stereotypes and the Ambiguities of Humour in Kenya
The Churchill Show is a weekly live and recorded comedy show, originally staged at the Carnivore Grounds in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and later hosted in various parts of the country. The live recordings were disseminated on Kenya’s NTV television network and published on YouTube by Laugh Industry Limited and NTV Kenya. The Churchill Show’s theme song includes a reference to bringing Kenyans back together, and the so-called ethnic jokes in the sh…
Slow Research and Peer Support
The Female Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is historically structured as masculine, often through the voices of slave trade merchants, Arab Sultans, male white missionaries, and male white colonial settlers who dominated the Eastern African archipelago. This article reads Swahili culture and its relationship to the Indian Ocean to offer a gendered analysis of Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s House of Rust . The article argues that the novel subverts male-dominated Indian Ocean n…
Blue Stories
Colonialism (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works)