Exploring Cultural Identity and Gender in Post-Colonial Anglophone African Literature
Oyeyemi Modupeola African literature, with its rich tapestry of stories, has long served as a vital means Houssine Dehbi Exploring the Depiction of African societies in the novels of Doris Lessing and Abdulrazak Gurnah: A contribution to the African literary Renaissance The novels of Doris Lessing and Abdulrazak Gurnah provide profound insights into African societies, capturing the socio-political complexities and cultural dynamics of the continent. This research proposal aims to investigate how their literary works contribute to a deeper understanding of African societies and play an important role in the African literary renaissance. The symposium explored the intersections of forced migration, gender, and race. In his presentation, Houssine introduced a paper that positions literature as an empathetic medium, one that bears witness to and offers testimony of the experiences of immigrants expelled from their homelands and compelled to seek refuge in places that often reject them. In his presentation, Houssine discussed how literature transcends charts and statistics, breathing life into the hidden human realities behind migration narratives.
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2024/2025
for Africans to communicate their histories, cultures, and identities. The continent’s diverse literary tradition includes a range of genres and languages, reflecting the complexities of its societies.
PhD Houssine Dehbi Participates in the “Queer(y)ing Asylum” Symposium at Lund University
Houssine Dehbi, a second-year PhD student at the Center for African Studies (CAS), participated on October 31st, 2025, in a symposium titled “Queer(y)ing Asylum” held at Lund University in Sweden.