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Multilingualism and local literacy practices in Ethiopia: Language contact in regulated and unregulated spaces
(University of Western Cape, 2014)
The study of the linguistic landscape has provided a new dimension to theories and issues related to multilingualism, including language policy. In this growing field of inquiry, however, not enough attention has been given ...
The use of KAAPS in newspapers
(University of Western Cape, 2016)
In the increasingly competitive media landscape newspapers, among others, are under
pressure from digital and social media. As a result, the performance and positioning
of traditional Afrikaans newspapers like Rapport, ...
‘I could have done everything and why not?’: Young women’s complex constructions of sexual agency in the context of sexualities education in Life Orientation in South African schools
(University of the Free State, 2015)
Progressive policies protecting women’s rights to make reproductive decisions and the recent increase in literature exploring female sexual agency do not appear to have impacted on more equitable sexual relations in all ...
Knowledge, values, and beliefs in the South African context since 1948: An overview
(Wiley, 2015)
In this contribution, an overview of the distinct waysin which the interplay between knowledge, values, and beliefs tookshape in the South African context since 1948 is offered. This is framedagainst the background of the ...
Love in a State of Fear: Reflections on Intimate Relations in Nuruddin Farah's Dictatorship Novels
(Routledge, 2016)
Romantic love, shot through with passion and the erotic, has extremely rarely been the focus
of the study of African oral traditions or a theme considered in African literature criticism. This
situation prevails despite ...
Dog sacrifice in Isidore Okpewho’s call me by my rightful name and the Works of Wole Soyinka: Ogun, race, identity and diaspora
(Ranchi: Glocal Colloquies, 2016)
This essay considers the ways in which the significance of blood
sacrifice in the propitiation of the Yoruba god Ogun is transformed in the
context of international literature which asserts an endogenous African
modernity, ...
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 ...
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 ...