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The Boer and the jackal: Satire and resistance in Khoi orature
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)Bushman narratives have been the subject of a large volume of scholarly and popular studies, particularly publications that have engaged with the Bleek and Lloyd archive. Khoi story-telling has attracted much less attention. ... -
Book review: Francis B. Nyamnjoh (2017), Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds
(German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien, 2017)Nyamnjoh’s insightful book offers an original, nuanced, and penetrative interpretation of the late Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, whose true value and influence were mainly recognised only after his demise. According ... -
Book review: scripting defiance: four sociological vignettes
(SAGE, 2023)Background: Scripting Defiance is vast, notwithstanding the modesty of its subtitle – Four Sociological Vignettes. It comes in at 530 pages. It is fundamentally vast in ambition, with its breadth of empirical examples, and ... -
Boon or bane? Urban food security and online food purchasing during the Covid-19 epidemic in Nanjing, China
(MDPI, 2022)This paper examines the relationship between the rapid growth of online food purchasing and household food security during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in China using the city of Nanjing as a case study. The ... -
Border crossings in the African travel narratives of Ibn Battuta, Richard Burton and Paul Theroux
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)This article compares the representation of African borders in the 14th-century travelogue of Ibn Battuta, the 19th-century travel narrative of Richard Burton and the 21st-century travel writing of Paul Theroux. It ... -
Boundaries of benefit sharing: interpretation and application of substantive rules in the Lake Malawi/Niassa/Nyasa sub‑basin of the Zambezi Watercourse
(Springer, 2023)questions regarding how riparian states determine “who gets what, where, and why” in a shared watercourse. To facilitate peaceful coexistence, substantive rules—“equitable and reasonable utilisation (ERU)” and “the duty ... -
Breaking the mold of disciplinary area studies
(Indiana University Press, 2016)At the outset of an edited volume on Intellectuals and African Development, the question is posed about what went wrong.1 The call for self-reflection perhaps anticipates a further question—about how to account for the ... -
The burden of history: Namibia and Germany from colonialism to postcolonialism
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)When former German Foreign Minister Joseph ‘Joschka’ Fischer visited Windhoek in October 2003, he went on record to say that there would be no apology that might give grounds for reparations for the first genocide of the ... -
Bureaucratically missing: Capital punishment, exhumations, and the afterlives of state documents and photographs
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)For their families, the bodies of many of those hanged by the apartheid state remain missing and missed. Judicial executions, and the corpses they produced, were hidden from the scrutiny of the public and the press. While ... -
Camp Lwandle: Rehabilitating a migrant labour hostel at the seaside
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)In southern African narratives of migrant labour, hostels and compounds are represented as typical examples of colonial and apartheid planning. Visual and spatial comparisons are consistently made between the regulatory ... -
Canine embodiment in South African lyric poetry
(University of Pretoria, 2018)This article discusses South African lyric poetry in English including translations since the 1960s. Rather than being private statements, South African lyrics, like all lyrics, are essentially dialogic—in relation to ... -
Cape Indians, Apartheid and Higher Education
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)On a Sunday afternoon, 15 November 2009, the Luxurama Theatre in Wynberg was filled to capacity as Indians in Cape Town gathered to launch the Cape Town 1860 Legacy Foundation in preparation for the 2010 events commemorating ... -
Cape Town as Africa's gateway for tourism to Antarctica - development potential and need for regulation
(2014)Cape Town is one of the five Antarctic gateway cities from which ships and aircraft travel to and from various parts of Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic islands. Gateway cities are used by government scientific expeditions, ... -
The Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)There is an urgency in theorising how diversity is negotiated, communicated, and disputed as a matter of everyday ordinariness that is compounded by the clear linkages between diversity, transformation, voice, agency, ... -
The centre for multilingualism and diversities research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)There is an urgency in theorising how diversity is negotiated, communicated, and disputed as a matter of everyday ordinariness that is compounded by the clear linkages between diversity, transformation, voice, agency, ... -
Challenges for information literacy education at a university of technology
(University of Kwazulu Natal, 2010)The article reports on an action research project to investigate the effectiveness of an information literacy intervention for first year engineering students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). The ... -
Challenges in digitising liberation archives: a case study
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2016)The article reports on a study of the challenges facing a liberation archive which is attempting to digitise its collections and of how the Archive has responded to the challenges. The article is framed by the critical ... -
Challenges in translating RL Peteni’s Xhosa novel Kwazidenge into Afrikaans
(South African Journal of African Languages, 2016-06-28)In a multilingual country like South Africa, translation from one of the official languages into another plays a major role, particularly in the public sector or the public domain. The purpose is to inform ... -
Changing urbanscapes: Colonial and postcolonial monuments in Windhoek
(Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2018)This article investigates how recently-constructed sites that anchor memories of anti-colonial resistance and national liberation have changed the urban landscape of the Namibian capital, Windhoek. The discussion is ... -
Chapter 12 imagination and the eco-social crisis (or: why I write creative non-fiction)
(Brill, 2020)Green Matters reflects on the ‘unique cultural function’ of literary texts with regard to environmental and ecological concerns. Another way of putting this is to ask: what do literary texts enable us to say or do in ...