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Prevention of civil war in Joshua 22: guidelines for African ethnic groups
(Old Testament Society of SA, 2013)
Have you ever jumped to a conclusion before hearing both sides of a story? Have you ever failed to give someone the benefit of the doubt, even though they had never wronged you? "There Are Two Sides to Every Story." Joshua ...
When orature becomes literature: Somali oral poetry and folktales in Somali novels
(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012)
The article discusses Somali literature, with particular focus given to the influence of Somali oral poetry and folk tales on modern novels. The difference between the concepts of orature and oral literature is examined, ...
Men in Africa: masculinities, materiality and meaning
(Elliot & Fitzpatrick Inc., 2010)
At a public lecture in Cape Town earlier this year, Professor
Sandra Harding, an internationally renowned feminist author,
spoke to the question ‘Can men be subjects of feminist
thought?’ (1 March 2010, District Six ...
Ecumenical perspectives on pentecostal pneumatology
(SUN, 2015)
This contribution responds to the unbearable but undeniable tension between the
ecumenical movement and the Pentecostal movement by exploring the doctrinal
differences in this regard. More specifically, the aim is to ...
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Routledge, 2017)
This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized
at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point
was the observation of a massive ...
God's wrath and judgment on ethnic hatred and hope for victims of ethnic hatred in Obadiah: implications for Africa
(OTSSA, 2015)
Ethnic hatred has caused many lives on the African continent. In
many cases victims of ethnic hatred are left without hope for the
future. The book of Obadiah shows that there is hope for victims of
ethnic hatred. This ...
Africa after apartheid: South Africa, race, and nation in Tanzania
(Routledge, 2016)
South African economic and political expansion into the African continent has been a controversial
feature of the post-apartheid era. Now human geographer Richard Schroeder has taken up the matter
in an ethnographic study ...
Matters of age: An introduction to ageing, intergenerationality and gender in Africa
(Taylor & Francis and UNISA, 2012)
This introductory essay to this special issue of Agenda draws together a wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary
literature on ageing, intergenerationality and gender, and locates the significance of writing from Africa within
this ...
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 ...
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 ...