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Youth marginalisation as a faith-based concern in contemporary South African society: Introducing a research contribution
(AOSIS, 2018)
The aim of this article is to introduce a special collection of articles focused on the topic ‘Youth
marginalisation as a faith-based concern in contemporary South African society’. In meeting
this aim the discussion ...
Christian anthropology and the National Development Plan: The role of personhood
(AOSIS, 2017)
This article is an attempt to analyse and assess the use of personal responsibility in the National
Development Plan (NDP). Some signposts that Christian anthropology can make to the
enhancement of the plan will then be ...
Ecumenical space: expanded for whom?
(World Council of Churches, 2013)
In this article we are setting out to address the dire need for reorientation within the ecumenical movement. In so doing, we are going to argue for a shift of emphasis that will take the notion of “ecumenical space” ...
Planning a dictionary for mother tongue education: a conceptual framework for Gabonese languages
(SUN, 2017)
The present article is a plea for mother tongue education dictionary projects in Gabonese lexicography. The latter has been in a fast-developing process for the past twenty years and has experienced quite an important crop ...
Remembering Marikana: Public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
This article investigates the role played by cultural initiatives in urban struggles in South Africa, and the emergence of public art to assert the right to the city. I explore how artistic– activist interventions engage ...
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 ...
Beyond morality: Assessment of the capacity of faith-based organizations (FBOS) in responding to the HIV/AIDS challenge in Southeastern Nigeria
(Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2018)
BACKGROUND: For the world can get rid of the HIV/AIDS pandemic by 2030, there is need for more to be done especially in the case of countries in Africa. In Nigeria, such efforts have included Faith-Based Organizations ...
Socially just pedagogies and social justice: The intersection of teaching ethics at higher education level and social justice
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)
This article is part of a longer term project between the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape and Umea University in Sweden. At both the institutions the teaching of ethics as a module ...
Philosophy of education in a new key: Cultivating a living philosophy of education to overcome coloniality and violence in African Universities
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
In this conversational article, we consider cultivating decoloniality in university education by drawing upon Jacques Ranci ere’s (2010) notion of a living philosophy. Ranci ere’s (2010) living philosophy holds the possibility ...
A qualitative meta-synthesis of interpersonal violence prevention programs focused on males
(SAGE Publications, 2017)
Exceptionally high levels of interpersonal violence have triggered a call by many experts for the need to determine effective ways to address the onset and effects of exposure to interpersonal violence. The specific aim ...