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The study illustrates how the German-speaking author Cătălin Dorian Florescu challenges simplistic identity constructs in his short story collection Der Nabel der Welt (2017), thus transcending the label of a writer who merely exoticizes the Eastern-European other, as some critics have previously asserted. Employing Lotman's model of the semiosphere as framework for analysis, this paper offers an interpretation of Florescu's fictionalized border areas as spaces of cultural bilingualism and signification recoding for the ›Self‹ (i.e., the Western European elite culture) and the ›Foreign‹ (i.e., the migrant milieu from Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How might one make sense of the intimate but often assumed connection between social inequality and social death? In this paper, I offer an answer. It develops in stages. First, I set out in some detail an account of person prominent in sub-Saharan African thought systems, specifically the version of it found in the writings of Ifeanyi Menkiti. Second, I show how this account entails both that persons are social entities and that consequently they belong in a social ontology. Third, I suggest a perspective on Orlando Patterson's notion of social death and then show how Menkiti's account of persons as psycho-social entities can provide ontological grounding for the phenomenon of social death. Roughly, the overarching claim is that rather than merely disrespect their victims, oppressive forms of social inequality essentially depersonalise them in the sense at issue in Patterson's social death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article deals with the emerging local currency bond markets in Africa. It begins by exploring why these bond markets are a key element in the general project of deepening peripheral financial markets and an important building block for any further market-based development finance. In this context, the article also discusses the political, economic, and social consequences of these bond markets. Building on this, the text highlights the prominent role of German institutions in establishing these bond markets in Africa and interrogates the underlying interests. The article discusses the thesis that German capital factions have an interest in deepening peripheral financial markets in order to recycle their own surplus capital and open up new markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By focussing on two objects originating from the former German colony in East Africa, this article showcases an entangled Tanzanian- British-German history. The objects in question are human remains; or, to be more precise, a skull and a tooth. Firstly, the article traces their itineraries. Secondly, it demonstrates how human remains, which were taken as colonial trophies, could become objects of faith and attain their own ›life‹ in Europe. Their interpretation as objects of faith is supposed to challenge the prevailing understanding of the collection of human remains as part of a history of knowledge. Instead, the article offers a different reading which emphasises an African-European dialogue of meanings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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