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Searching for new library models: Two South African case studies of services to youth
(2012)
South Africa is a youthful society with 54% younger than 24 years. South African young people face disproportionately high rates of unemployment, HIV-AIDS infection, and violent crime. Even in post-apartheid South Africa, ...
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, ...
The body unbound: ritual scarification and autobiographical forms in Wole Soyinka’s Aké: the years of childhood
(Sage Publications, 2012)
The scarification in Aké is invested with major significance apropos Soyinka’s ideas on African
subjectivity. Scarification among the Yoruba is one of the rites of passage associated with personal
development. Scarification ...
‘… The Agapanthi, Asphodels of the Negroes…’: Life-writing, landscape and race in the South African diaries and poetry of George Seferis
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
The Greek poet George Seferis (1900-1971) spent 10 months in South Africa
during WWII as a senior diplomatic official attached to the Greek government
in exile. Drawing on his diary entries, correspondence and poetry ...
'A living testimony of the heights to which a woman can rise’: Sarojini Naidu, Cissie Gool and the Politics of Women’s Leadership in South Africa in the 1920s
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
A leading force in the Indian National Congress, Sarojini Naidu arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the end of February 1924 after receiving an invitation to support South African Indian political organisations in ...
Narratives of transactional sex on a university campus
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
Given the imperatives of HIV and gender equality, South African researchers have foregrounded transactional sex as a common practice that contributes to unsafe and inequitable sexual practices. This paper presents findings ...
Talking South African fathers: a critical examination of men’s constructions and experiences of fatherhood and fatherlessness
(Sage Publications, 2012)
The absence of biological fathers in South Africa has been constructed as a problem for children of both sexes but more so for boy-children. Arguably the dominant discourse in this respect has demonized non-nuclear, ...
Taxi ‘sugar daddies’ and taxi queens: male taxi driver attitudes regarding transactional relationships in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis Open, 2012)
Media reports are emerging on the phenomenon of young girls who travel with older mini-bus taxi drivers, and who are thought to have sex with the drivers in exchange for gifts and money. The extent to which such relationships ...
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 ...
Sê sjibbolet: ’n intertekstuele lees
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
This article pursues an intertextual reading of Adam Small's collection of poetry Sê sjibbolet ("Say shibboleth"). The collection is read alongside texts that refer to "shibboleth" in their titles i.e. works by Paul Celan, ...