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Rural-urban disparities in health and health care in Africa: Cultural competence, lay-beliefs in narratives of diabetes among the rural poor in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
(CODESRIA, 2017)
Rural-urban disparities in health and health care in Africa have been well described; yet, they
remain relatively of less concern among many issues in health and health care in Africa. The
disparities have been documented ...
The social act of exchange in power relations: The study of the phenomenon of Nichekeleko at the weighbridges in Zambia
(CODESRIA, 2017)
This article examines the widely practiced phenomenon of Nichekeleko at the Weighbridges
(WBs) in Zambia. The commonly held understanding of Nichekeleko by the Zambian people is
that, it is corruption; ranging from ...
The use of heroism in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) intra-party factional dynamics
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
Much of what we know about Zimbabwe's liberation war heroes and heroines is associated with the Zimbabwe African Notional Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)'s recognition of individuals who defended its hold on power. However, ...
Performative ethnography: difference and conviviality of everyday multiculturalism in Bellville (Cape Town)
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
The paper explores the benefits of performative ethnography as a methodological intervention. The intervention discussed in this paper utilizes the persuasive power of aesthetics and performance to attain participation ...
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 ...
Book review: Francis B. Nyamnjoh (2017), Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds
(German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien, 2017)
Nyamnjoh’s insightful book offers an original, nuanced, and penetrative
interpretation of the late Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, whose true value
and influence were mainly recognised only after his demise. According ...
A hip-hopera in Cape Town: The aesthetics, and politics of performing ‘Afrikaaps’
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This paper looks into the aesthetics and politics of the ‘hip-hopera’ Afrikaaps. Afrikaaps was produced in 2010 by a group of musicians and spoken-word artists from Cape Town and the rural Western Cape Province of South ...
“Everything happened so quickly” Living through events immediately before and after initial breast cancer diagnosis: an exploratory study of the experiences of a group of women in Cape Town, South Africa
(OMICS International, 2017)
This article provides information on an aspect of the author’s research on colored women’s experiences of breast
cancer and deals specifically with events immediately before and after the initial diagnosis. The experiences ...
The burden of history: Namibia and Germany from colonialism to postcolonialism
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
When former German Foreign Minister Joseph ‘Joschka’ Fischer visited Windhoek in October 2003, he went on record to say that there would be no apology that might give grounds for reparations for the first genocide of the ...
Revitalizing higher education in Africa: a review of health research (in social science) in African universities
(IJRDO, 2017)
What is the agenda for health research in Social Sciences in African Universities? To what extent has university led research in the area of health revitalized higher education in Africa? This paper examines through a ...