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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, ...
Introduction and decolonial pedagogies, multilingualism and literacies
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This Special Issue of Multilingual
Margins brings together a
number of creative, reflective
and academic writings and artefacts
that emerged from a new interinstitutional
postgraduate module,
Re-imagining Multilingualisms, ...
After thought: Why not a prism?
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This special issue of Multilingual
Margins is an excellent example
of how the guiding concepts of a
project are put into practice. The framing
of the Re-imagining Multilingualisms
project is presented here in what can ...
Inxeba (The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
This article focuses on the controversy caused by the release of the film Inxeba (The Wound). Inxeba depicts a complex intersection of rites of passage, masculinities, queerness and the relationships between men in a ...
‘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 ...
‘Foundational fictions’ Variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa’s early Anglophone-Igbo novels
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)
The Igbo marriage song recorded by Ifi Amadiume in her influential ethnographic study of the Nnobi in Southeastern Nigeria is a reminder of the cross-cultural, trans-historical significance of some form of marriage in 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 ...
Plotting marriage and love in Elechi Amadi's The concubine: Extended realism in the African novel.
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Unlike most other 20th-century African writers, Elechi Amadi foregrounds the theme of romantic love in most of his fiction. Unlike the internationally canonized “village novels” of Chinua Achebe, Amadi’s “village novels” ...
Rethinking medicinal plants and plant medicines
(National Inquiry Services Centre, 2018)
Because plants are perceived as sessile and immobile, they are often represented as objects or
things in current literature. In this paper, I explore variations and shifts in research and literature
since 2000 that ...