Search
Now showing items 61-69 of 69
Why cannot the term development just be dropped altogether? Some reflections on the concept of maturation as alternative to development discourse
(AOSIS, 2016)
This contribution is aimed at some provocation by questioning the basic assumptions of current development discourse (also in the context of religion and theology). It asks for conceptual clarification and differentiation ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
“Ndiyindoda” [I am a man]: Theorising Xhosa masculinity
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2016)
Masculinity studies in South Africa depend on Western gender theories to frame research questions and fieldwork. This article argues that such theories offer a limited understanding of Xhosa ...
‘… Oi, oi! … you must go by the right path’: Mofolo’s Chaka revisited via the original text
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
Thomas Mofolo never defended himself against accusations that his novel Chaka distorts historical facts to express anti-Nguni sentiments under the guise of Christianity. But in a way he foreshadowed the possibility of it, ...
Challenges in translating RL Peteni’s Xhosa novel Kwazidenge into Afrikaans
(South African Journal of African Languages, 2016-06-28)
In a multilingual country like South Africa, translation from one of the official languages into another plays a major role, particularly in the public sector or the public domain. The purpose is to inform ...
Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties: the role of ideologies and multilingual literacy practices in student evaluations of such materials at a South African University
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
This paper seeks to address the ways in which ideology and literacy practices shape the responses of students to an ongoing initiative at the University of the Western Cape aimed at diversifying options for epistemological ...