Innovative Research Methods

October 6, 2020

Marcia Semedo Gonçalves

Nigerian English: A variety of English or just ‘bad English’?

Nigeria, like many other African countries, has a multilingual landscape the number of languages spoken in Nigeria today is estimated ...

21st Century (2020/21)

October 6, 2020

Shannon Lorimer

“Repeat: ‘I am a man!’”

Inxeba: The Wound, released in 2017, follows the process of initiation in the isiXhosa culture in South Africa. It is ...

21st Century (2020/21)MA Series

October 6, 2020

Ria Winters

Critical discourse analysis of Kwesi Kwaa Prah’s article ‘The language of development and the development of language in contemporary Africa’ .

One of the methods that the tutors of the course ‘Researching Africa in the 21st century’ of the Master program ...

21st Century (2020/21)

October 6, 2020

Junyang Shen

A discourse analysis on the Swahili hit “Yahaya” by Lady Jaydee

Music has always been a big part in many cultures and Swahili culture is not an exception. The power of ...

Uncategorized

October 6, 2020

Pam Hietbrink

CDA: Stop Filming Us

It was October 1st, 7:30pm. There was a showing of the film “Stop filming us” by Joris Postema at the ...

21st Century (2020/21)

October 5, 2020

Oussama El Khairi

‘Berber Whiskey’ 101

Almost a month ago, I arrived in The Netherlands, I checked-in my student building in Voorschoten. All my neighbors are ...

21st Century (2020/21)

October 5, 2020

Jochem Scheelings

Wann kommen die Deutschen endlich wieder?

Wann kommen die Deutschen endlich wieder? In the period between the World Wars, the German colonial elite underwent something of ...

21st Century (2020/21)

October 5, 2020

Marly van den Boom

A Critical Discourse Look at Slam Poetry

Slam poetry is a form of performance art I only got introduced to about three years ago. Nevertheless, I started ...

Uncategorized

October 5, 2020

Diene de Jong

The boy who harnessed the wind

The boy who harnessed the wind is a movie based on the book by William Kamkwamba from Malawi and cowriter ...