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    • African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO): A disciplinary open archive 

      Mohamed, Shehaamah; Fullard, Allison (2009-10-14)
      African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO) is an international disciplinary repository for research texts that focus on the practice and development of higher education in Africa. Distributed researchers upload their ...
    • African history in context: Toward a praxis of radical education 

      Benson, Koni; Gamedze, Asher; Koranteng, Akosua (Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)
      This chapter reflects on the context, process, and challenges of the Know Your Continent (KYC) popular education course which we ran in Cape Town in the second half of 2015. KYC brought together people from local high ...
    • The African intellectuals’ project 

      Sesanti, Simphiwe (UNISA Press, 2020)
      Soon after taking the position of editor of IJARS at the beginning of 2019, I was contacted by the dean of Unisa’s College of Graduate Studies (CGS), Prof. Lindiwe Zungu, who informed me that the university’s principal ...
    • African Migrants, Xenophobia and Urban Violence in Post-apartheid South Africa 

      Tevera, Daniel (University of the Western Cape, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, 2013)
      The urban space in South Africa is increasingly becoming a troubled terrain of xenophobic violence. In recent years xenophobia has emerged as one of the major contributing factors to urban violence in several African ...
    • African peacekeeping and African integration: Current challenges 

      Gottschalk, Keith (RUDN University, 2020)
      Peacekeeping and economic union are the two most important dimensions of African integration. The first section of this article aims to analyse some current challenges to African peacekeeping, peacemaking, and ...
    • African Pentecostal churches and racialized xenophobia: International migrants as agents of transformational development? 

      Hankela, Elina; Swart, Ignatius; Nishimwe, Clementine (SAGE, 2022)
      Scholarship on Pentecostal potential and practice forms a significant part of the debate on religion and development, not least when the focus is on sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in this debate African Pentecostal migrant communities ...
    • African rangelands and pastoralism in a changing continent: Perspectives and opportunities 

      Samuels, M Igshaan; Egeru, Anthony; Mugabe, Prisca (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
      Eighty-five years ago, Africa was described as a land of promise because it provided an immense opportunity for maximum return in the minimum time (Olaniyan 2000). It was treated this way because ...
    • African studies keywords: Queer 

      Otu, Kwame E.; van Klinken, Adriaan (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
      “Queer” is a relatively recent and somewhat controversial term in African studies. Yet it is proving to be productive, not only for understanding African subjectivities of sexuality and gender, but also for situating ...
    • The African Union and its sub-regional structures 

      Gottschalk, Keith (Adonis & Abbey Publishers, 2012)
      After seven decades of episodic existence through conferences, the Pan-African project became permanently institutionalised with the founding of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963, with a qualitative upgrade into ...
    • The African Women's Protocol and sexual rights 

      Ebenezer, Durojaye; Lucyline Nkatha, Murungi (The International Journal of Human Rights, 2014-11)
      ‘Sexual rights’ are defined to include the rights of all persons free of coercion, violence and discrimination to the highest attainable standards of sexual health, including access to sexual and reproductive health care ...
    • 'Africanisation' of South Africa's international air links, 1994-2003 

      Pirie, Gordon (Elsevier, 2006)
      In the first decade of democratic rule in South Africa scheduled commercial passenger flights across the country’s borders more than doubled. Additional flights served new African air passenger markets and secondary airports ...
    • Africa–India nuclear cooperation: pragmatism, principle, post-colonialism and the Pelindaba Treaty 

      Pretorius, Joelien (Routledge, 2011)
      The United States India nuclear agreement, announced in 2005, was a first step in the process to normalise India’s international nuclear relations despite the fact that India is not a party to the Treaty on the ...
    • Africa’s living rivers: Managing for sustainability 

      King, Jackie; Brown, Cate (MIT Press, 2021)
      Africa’s human population is growing rapidly and is set to account for 40 percent of global numbers by 2100. Further development of its inland waters, to enhance water and energy security, is inevitable. Will it follow ...
    • Afrikaans adaptation of the children’s hope scale: Validation and measurement invariance 

      Savahl, Shazly; Adams, Sabirah; Florence, Maria Ann (Cogent OA, 2020)
      The overarching aim of this study was to validate the Afrikaans version of Snyder’s (1997) Children’s Hope Scale in a sample of children from Cape Town, South Africa. Within this process, the study aimed to test the ...
    • Afrikaans students’ use of emojis 

      Donovan, Lawrence (South African Academy for Science and the Arts, 2023)
      Everyday five billion emojis are used on Facebook Messenger, one out of every five Twitter messages contains an emoji and half of all Instagram comments have an emoji (Emojipedia. org, 2022). The use of emojis in online ...
    • After the riot? Rancière, Hamilton, and radical politics 

      Piper, Laurence (Penn State University Press, 2018)
      In recent years, political forces from the Occupy movement in North America to the #FeesMustFall student protest in South Africa have attempted to disrupt the political order in the name of democratic equality. Inspired ...
    • After thought: Why not a prism? 

      Flockemann, Miki (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 ...
    • Aftercare to chemically addicted adolescents: An exploration of their needs 

      van der Westhuizen, Marichen; Assim, H; Alpaslan, Nicky; de Jager, Mariana (OASIS, 2013)
      Treatment of chemical addiction includes preparation for treatment, formal treatment and aftercare. The latter appears to be a neglected area in service delivery to chemically addicted adolescents, contributing to the ...
    • Aftershocks: Psychotechnics in the wake of apartheid 

      Truscott, Ross; Smith, Michelle (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      What we at first found intriguing about Simon Gush’s Red, what the documentary and the installation seemed to mutually conjure, was the Mandela car as a body to be mourned.2 Mourning recurred as a latent theme through the ...
    • Against trauma: silence, victimhood, and (photo-) voice in Northern Namibia 

      Becker, Heike (UFS, 2015)
      The article shows how the discourses of trauma, victimhood and silence regarding local agency contributed to the production of the nationalist master narrative in postcolonial Namibia. However, I point out repositories of ...