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Embodied urban health and illness in Cape Town: Children’s reflections on living in Symphony Way temporary relocation area
(National Inquiry Services Centre, 2015)
This paper explores ideas about health and illness held by six children who live in the
Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area in Cape Town, South Africa. The research shows
that solutions to illness and health problems ...
New imperatives for librarianship in Africa
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)
Africa, in colonial times regarded as the “Dark Continent,” faces
many challenges, whether infrastructural, cultural, or political. Despite these challenges, countries on the continent cannot afford to
be complacent. The ...
Zimbabwean foodways, feminisms, and transforming nationalisms in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s nervous conditions and no violet bulawayo’s we need new names
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)
Food studies are a productive lens through which to view the impact of social, cultural, historical and political shifts on conceptions of female identity. Nervous Conditions (1988) and we need new names (2013) are two ...
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 ...
An aligned alliance in allegiance to the drum beat of higher education's transformation agenda: A critical discourse lens
(MCSER Publishing, 2014)
This paper includes an overview of transformation challenges faced by Higher Education globally, nationally and provides concluding remarks of the urgency that all staff who works in this sector understands and exemplify ...
“Ndiyindoda” [I am a man]: Theorising Xhosa masculinity
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2016)
Masculinity studies in South Africa depend on Western gender theories to frame research questions and fieldwork. This article argues that such theories offer a limited understanding of Xhosa ...
Intersection of personhood and culture: A narrative approach of pastoral care to gender-based violence
(Klaasen, J. (2018). Intersection of personhood and culture: A narrative approach of pastoral care to gender-based violence. Scriptura ,117 (1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.7833/117-1-1348, 2018)
What contribution does a narrative approach make to effective care for those
affected by gender-based violence? Notwithstanding the contributions of feminist
theologians who take experience and identity seriously (Ackermann ...
Politicization and resistance in the Zimbabwean national army
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
While the dominant discourse in Zimbabwe on and about soldiers is that they are perpetrators of political violence, this does not always reflect the lived experiences of soldiers who joined the army in post-independence ...
‘… Oi, oi! … you must go by the right path’: Mofolo’s Chaka revisited via the original text
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
Thomas Mofolo never defended himself against accusations that his novel Chaka distorts historical facts to express anti-Nguni sentiments under the guise of Christianity. But in a way he foreshadowed the possibility of it, ...
Understanding refugee durable solutions by international players: Does dialogue form a missing link?
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2018)
This study evaluates durable solutions in relation to refugees from EastAfrica. It particularly focuses on the Great Lakes countries of Rwanda, Burundi,Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The study is based on the ...