Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies
2327-7416 (Online)
1.0 (2024) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.779 (2024) SNIP
0.188 (2024) SJR
Accredited with the DHET (SAPSE)
Latest Issue
Volume 11, Issue 2, 2025
Articles
A Critical Analysis of the Intersection between Masculinity and Sodomy in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novels
The quest(ion) of Leaning Towards a Liberal Historiography in Edgar Tekere’s A Lifetime of Struggle (2007) and Cephas Msipa’s In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice: a Memoir (2015)
Re-storying Nature: An Eco-critical Reading of Parkes’s Tail of the Blue Bird
The Portrayal of China in Ethiopia’s Creative Works
Research Article
Childhood Trauma and Remembrance: Weaponised PTSD in Glaydah Namukasa’s The Deadly Ambition
Aims & Scope
Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (EALCS) is a new international peer-reviewed journal which offers a distinctive, integrated forum for scholarship on the literature, culture and arts of the Eastern Africa region and their widespread influence. The arts and culture have played an instrumental role in the post-colonial project, and indeed in the forging of twenty-first century identities and realities, where they have actively engaged with ideas from other fields including economics, politics, history and religion. This dynamic interface is explored in the journal. Exceptional creative work from and about the region is also considered for publication. The journal invites submissions of research articles, review essays, roundtable debates, interviews, creative work, book reviews and conference alerts.
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2014 - current Published as Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies
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2013 - 2013
Editors
EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Godwin Siundu, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Lynda Gichanda Spencer, Rhodes University, South Africa
Dina Ligaga, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Tina Steiner, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS
Akinwumi Adesokan, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Carli Coetzee, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, UK
Lutz Diegner, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Mohammed Eno, St Clements University, Somalia
Graham Furniss, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, UK
Simon Gikandi, Princeton University, USA
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kent University, UK
Isabel Hofmeyr, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
David Kerr, University of Birmingham, UK
Susan Kiguli, Makerere University, Uganda
Ambreena Manji, Cardiff University, UK
Syned Mthatiwa, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Malawi
Grace A. Musila, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Evan Mwangi, Northwestern University, USA
Stephanie Newell, Yale University, USA
Brendon Nicholls, Leeds University, UK
George Ogola, University of Central Lancashire, UK
James Ogude, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Okello Ogwang, Makerere University, Uganda
Dan Ojwang, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Senayon Olaoluwa, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Fred Opali, International University of Management Windhoek, Namibia
Jin-Kyung Park, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
Meg Samuelson, University of Adelaide, Australia
Imani Sanga, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
M.G. Vassanji, Independent Scholar & Writer, Canada
Abebe Zegeye, Woldia University, Ethiopia
Co-FOUNDING EDITORS
Tom Odhiambo, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Godwin Siundu, University of Nairobi, Kenya
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