African Women in Sports: A Critical Analysis of Selected Media Discourses

It is axiomatic that African women have been compromised by patriarchy for centuries, with culture used as a subterfuge. This paper, therefore, strives to subvert existing cultural adversities meted out against African women for African development. These unsavoury patriarchal tendencies are used to subjugate women by stifling their potential to make a meaningful contribution to Africa’s growth. The paper is, furthermore, based on a critical analysis of the dilemmas of women in Malatji’s short fiction from her text Love Interrupted (2012). It is underscored by African Feminism which is a transformative theory that seeks to popularise the emancipation of women from socio-cultural deprivation. directed by the qualitative research approach. Purposive sampling was employed to select the short stories from other short stories by the same author, and textually analyse them. The paper recommends that for Africa to flourish, she should empower women for equal participation in socio-cultural engagements.

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Wspólnoty pamięci Hołodomoru w USA i Kanadzie w latach 50.-80. XX wieku

Politeja ◽

10.12797/politeja.18.2021.70.05 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (1(70)) ◽

pp. 57-72

Author(s):

Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

American History ◽

Social Life ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Point Of View ◽

The Social ◽

The Usa ◽

The 1950S ◽

Media Discourses

Communities of Memory of the Holodomor in the USA and Canada in the 1950s-80s The main goal of this article is to show how the Ukrainian community in North America, thanks to cultivating the memory of a marginal event from the point of view of American history, managed to appear in the social life of the USA and Canada. Here I use the concept of ‘community of memory’ to emphasize those Ukrainian communities in the USA and Canada that are of utmost importance in the commemoration of Holodomor. They also managed to retain this event’s memory in many other competing memories, dabbling in the memory of their identity as American Ukrainian. Therefore, in the following sections of the article, I will attempt to answer why it was the diaspora that undertook a tremendous effort to commemorate Holodomor’s victims and the course of that process for years. Finally, I employ critical analysis of media discourses. Moreover, I will consider the Holodomor generation’s role in cultivating that memory and emergence of the ‘communities of memory’.

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