Cajetan Iheka

Biographic Data

ID80909
NAMECajetan Iheka
GIVEN NAMESCajetan
FAMILY NAMEIheka
SIGNATUREIHEKA C
AFFILIATIONSYale University
ORCID0000-0003-1800-458X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Migration and the Path to a More Integrated Africa

    Open AccessMwangi Wa Gĩthĩnji, Cajetan IhekaARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2026

    We live in a world of unprecedented global migrations.Unlike many past largescale migrations, driven by state-sponsored colonizing projects, many of today's migrants are either fleeing trouble at home or chasing better opportunities abroad.African economies endowed with young populations are often both the producers and receivers of migrants.According to recent Afrobarometer surveys, an average of 47 percent of young Africans across twenty-four c…

  • Introduction: The Cultural Dimensions of Africa–China Relations

    Open AccessBenedito Machava, Cajetan IhekaARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2026

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  • The Afterlife of Ken Saro-Wiwa: Thirty Years After

    Open AccessCajetan IhekaARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2026

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  • Kenneth W. Harrow: A Legacy in African Studies

    Open AccessCajetan IhekaARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2025

  • A Field in Flux

    Open AccessAlix Saba, Andrea Saba et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2025

  • (Re)presenting Women's Political Participation on the Continent

    Open AccessAkosua K Darkwah, Akosua Darkwah et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2025References: 11

  • The Intersections of Global Africa

    Open AccessAlix Saba, Cajetan IhekaARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2024

  • A Continent's Beautiful Game

    Open AccessCajetan IhekaARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2024Cited by: 1

  • Finding a Place for TWAIL in African Studies

    Open AccessAnnie Bunting, Cajetan IhekaARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2024

  • The Value of Extending Our Scholarly Geographic Scope

    Open AccessRobert Nyenhuis, Cajetan IhekaARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2024Cited by: 1

  • New Beginnings at the African Studies Review

    Open AccessCajetan IhekaARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2023References: 1

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  • At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War

    Cajetan IhekaARTICLEComparative Literature Studies2023

    African literary history has been enriched by recent scholarship revisiting accounts of the field’s development and relationship to conceptual categories such as modernism and realism. Simon Gikandi’s 2012 essay, “Realism, Romance, and the Problem of African Literary History,” which reevaluates the appropriation of romance and realism by early African writers, is a case in point. The tendency to consider the 1950s as marking the beginning of an A…

  • Knowledge Creation for Africa's Development Contexts

    Open AccessRoseline Wanjiru, Cajetan IhekaARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2023Cited by: 1References: 1

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  • Bright Spots in African Studies

    Open AccessCajetan IhekaARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2023

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  • Envisioning African Presences at ASA and Beyond

    Open AccessAlix Saba, Cajetan IhekaARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2023

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  • Individual Epistemes in The African Novel of Ideas

    Open AccessCajetan IhekaARTICLEThe Cambridge Journal of…2022References: 2

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  • The Postcolonial Nonhuman. An Introduction

    Open AccessErin James, Cajetan Iheka et al.ARTICLEEcozon European Journal of…2022

    Introduction to the guest edited section

  • Intricate Intimacies: Reading the Transatlantic Queer in Dinaw Mengestu's All Our Names

    Cajetan IhekaARTICLENew Literary History2022Cited by: 2

    Intricate Intimacies:Reading the Transatlantic Queer in Dinaw Mengestu's All Our Names Cajetan Iheka (bio) Abstract In Dinaw Mengestu's dual first-person narrative All Our Names (2014), narrator Isaac recounts his departure from a conflict-ridden Ethiopia to Uganda, where he meets the original Isaac from whom he takes the name and passport that eventually enable him to escape from a tumultuous Uganda to the United States. Once in the U.S., the ne…

  • The media turn in African environmentalism: The Niger Delta and oil’s network forms

    Open AccessCajetan IhekaARTICLEJournal of Visual Culture2021

    African ecologies and the various media forms devoted to them remain marginal in the bourgeoning discourse of ecomedia studies despite the implication of the continent in mineral extraction, wildlife conservation, and the dumping of toxic wastes, just to mention a few examples. Turning to media focusing on Nigeria’s Niger-Delta region, the author argues that African cultural forms are crucial for extending the frontiers of ecomedia studies and fo…

  • African Migration Narratives: Politics, Race, and Space

    Cajetan Iheka, Jack TaylorBOOKAfrican Migration Narratives2021

  • African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics

    Cajetan IhekaBOOKAfrican Ecomedia2021

    In African Ecomedia, Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture. Iheka shows how, through visual media such as film, photography, and sculpture, African artists deliver a unique perspective on the socioecological costs of media production, from mineral and oil extraction to the politics of animal conservation. Among other works, he examines Pieter Hugo'…

  • Africa and the Diversity Turn

    Open AccessCajetan Iheka, B N LawranceARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2021Cited by: 2

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  • African Literature, Ecological Interconnections, Theoretical Entanglements

    Open AccessCajetan IhekaARTICLEThe Cambridge Journal of…2019Cited by: 1References: 3

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  • Ecologies of Oil and Trauma of the Future in Curse of the Black Gold

    Open AccessCajetan IhekaARTICLEThe Cambridge Journal of…2019References: 12

    Mineral extraction in Africa has exacerbated ecological degradation across the continent. This article focuses on the example of the Niger Delta scene of oil exploration depicted in Michael Watts and Ed Kashi’s multimedia project, Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta. Analyzing the infringement on human and nonhuman bodies due to fossil fuel extraction, I read the Delta, inscribed in Watts and Kashi’s image-text, as an ecol…

  • Introduction: The Migration Turn in African Cultural Productions

    Open AccessCajetan Iheka, Jack TaylorCHAPTERAfrican Migration Narratives2018

    On September 2, 2000, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Spanish photojournalist Javier Bauluz received a phone call informing him of a drowned African immigrant on the beach at Zahara. When he took this call, Bauluz was in the nearby Andalucian town of Tarifa interviewing and taking photographs of another group of African immigrants who made it to Spain in poorly equipped dinghies. On arrival in Zahara, Bauluz took a photograph of the drowned man, captu…