October 2021

Founding Editor & Editor in Chief
Dr. Agya Boakye-Boaten
UNC Asheville

Managing Editor
Dr. Tiece Ruffin
Interim Director, Africana Studies
U.S. Fulbright Scholar & Professor, UNC Asheville

Copy Editor
Taylor Sykes
Lecturer,
English,
UNC Asheville

Production Editor
Brandy Bourne
Interim University Librarian,
Ramsey Library,
UNC Asheville

Administrative Support
Emily Herzog
Administrative Assistant
Africana Studies,
UNC Asheville

From Whence I Came: Totality / From Whence I Came: Mama Wa Wote Shawn Winebrenner	3
Get Over Yourself—What’s Non-native Won’t Harm You / Liberated Mildred K. Barya, UNC Asheville	4
Abibifahodie! Language, Consciousness, and Decolonization Kamau Rashid, Northeastern Illinois University	8
The Strength of a Crocodile is Water: Thought in Tsonga Proverbs Jeremias Zunguze, UNC Asheville	25
Ideological Dissonance in J.P. Clark’s The Raft and Femi Osofisan’s Another Raft: A Postcolonial Perspective Clement Ajidahun, Adekunle Ajasin University	36
Marvelous Math Club as a Catalyst for Asset- and Justice-based Thinking and Practices Marta Alcalá-Williams, Asheville City Schools, and Sam Kaplan, UNC Asheville	50
Philosophy for Children: A potential pedagogy for transformative education in Zimbabwean resettlement primary schools John Bhurekeni, Rhodes University Environmental Learning Research Centre	67