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Travelling home: Diasporic dis-locations of space and place in Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician
(SAGE Publications, 2018)
The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician, a novel by Zimbabwean diasporic writer Tendai Huchu, adds to a growing body of global immigrant fiction. Huchu’s novel concerning Zimbabwean émigrés in the United Kingdom ...
Disappeared to Ethiopia’s Bermuda: Tales by a puppet
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
At the Red Terror Martyrs' Memorial Museum (RTMMM) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, there sits upon a wall a chart of the torture houses used during a campaign of terror waged by the Derg regime that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to ...
Last Word: What does “hospitality” really mean?
(Duke University Press, 2018)
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Last year I filled out an endless number of
forms on the internet and had my photo taken
this way for an American visa, that way for a
Schengen one, another way for Britain. I stood
in queues to gather freshly ...
Evaluation of assessment skills using essay rubrics in student self-grading at first year level in higher education: a case study
(South African Association for Language Teaching, 2018)
This paper reports on a study in which students self-graded an assessment task with the aid of an assessment rubric. On comparing student selfgrades with those of the tutor it was found that majority (72.6%) of the students ...
To Write Liberty
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
The keynote for the International Conference, Writing for Liberty, held in Cape Town in 2017
is a response to the contradictory demands made on writers: to respond to the suffering in the
world and to refrain from ...
Reading for hope: a conversation about texts and method
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
In a conversation about their shared interests, the authors discuss methodology, reading strategies, and comparative historiographies relating to the recuperation of residues of hope that linger in the wake of failed ...
Reflecting on the process of teaching reflection in higher education
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)
Higher education plays an important role in nurturing life-long
learning and critical citizenry. One way to foster these is through
developing a reflective practice. Given the importance of reflection, this article ...
Attending to the affective: exploring first year students’ emotional experiences at university
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)
This study engaged students at the affective level in order to acquire a better understanding of their emotional experiences at university with the ultimate aim of improving teaching and learning. A qualitative research ...
Knowledge and unlearning in the Poetry of Koleka Putuma and Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese
(Routledge, 2018)
This paper provides a reading, through a decolonial lens, of the debut work of two recently
published South African poets, Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese and Koleka Putuma. In the work
of both poets, the reader encounters ...
Postnational paradoxes: Nuruddin Farah's recent novels and two life narratives in counterpoint
(Indiana University Press, 2018)
Nuruddin Farah’s most recent novel, Hiding in Plain Sight, provides an
interesting fictional terrain within which to explore postcolonial postnationalism. This novel highlights the impacts of globalization and transnationalism ...