Pages Of Africa

About Pages Of Africa

Pages of Africa: Let's Talk African Literature is a platform that discusses Africa and the uniqueness of each country through African literature. It's a dive into the African reality both past and present through the exploration of words woven together beautifully by African writers.

Publisher

Khirnan Dikas

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Feb 2024

Latest episode

5 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

8 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Apr 2026

   ‘Diaspora Blues’: Home, Absence and the Distance between

   When leaving becomes survival, home is indeed the mouth of a shark. This episode talks about the effects of migration on those left behind.

2. 

   14 Mar 2026

   Home: Why People Leave and the Walls That Pretend Otherwise

   An exploration of the reality of migration especially in Africa using Warsan Shire’s poem ‘Home’.

3. 

   22 Apr 2025

   Cycles of Violence

   In Small Country, Gaby’s peaceful childhood in Burundi unravels as ethnic violence erupts in Rwanda and Burundi. Through his experience, we witness the theft of innocence, the trauma of war and the identity crisis that builds up with exile. This captures the cycles of violence in postcolonial Africa.

4. 

   30 Mar 2025

   Built to Divide: The Lasting Architecture of Apartheid

   This episode explores some of the laws of apartheid in close connection to two texts Sizwe Bansi is Dead a play by Athol Fugard and Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. These texts explore the social realities of apartheid South Africa.

5. 

   9 Mar 2025

   Colonial Legacies

   This episode delves into the African reality and how it is a product of colonialism.

6. 

   10 Mar 2024

   Weep not, Child: An Exploration of Kenyan Colonial Experience

   This episode delves into the Kenyan colonial experience encapsulated in the historical fiction by Ngugi wa Thiongo titled Weep not, Child. It discuses dispossession and decolonisation as focal points addressed in the text.

7. 

   25 Feb 2024

   A Beautiful Defence of Africa

   This episode is a review of a classic novel side by side an essay by the same writer which serves as a beautiful way of asserting the African cultural identity.

8. 

   19 Feb 2024

   Introduction

   This is basically an expanded trailer episode that contains a summary of all I hope to discuss in this podcast.

Reach and audience

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 13 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

13

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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