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Chinese devils, the global market, and the declining power of Togo’s Nana-Benzes
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)
This article examines the shifting representations of and discourses produced about Chinese salesmen and their collaborators in the small West African nation of Togo. It suggests that in this context representations of ...
Dissent, disruption, decolonization: South African student protests 1968 to 2016
(Center for Economic Research and Social Change, 2018)
Fifty years after student protests shook much of the Cold War world, in the “West” and in the “East,” “Global 1968” has become the catchword to describe these profound generational revolts. We hear a lot about West Berlin, ...
Perceptions of traditional health practitioners on violence in the Helderberg Municipal Area, Western Cape
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
This study on perceptions of violence was conducted with 56 traditional health practitioners (diviners: amagrirha) in the Helderberg Municipal Area of Cape Town Metro. It forms a subsection of a larger study on African ...
The politics and aesthetics of commemoration: national days in southern Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
The contributions to the special section in this issue study recent independence celebrations and other national days in South
Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They explore the ...
From 'One Namibia, One Nation' towards 'Unity in Diversity? Shifting representations of culture and nationhood in Namibian Independence Day celebrations, 1990-2010
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
In 2010 Namibia celebrated its twentieth anniversary of independence from South African rule. The main celebrations in the
country’s capital Windhoek became the stage for an impressively orchestrated demonstration of ...
With shouts of Afrika!’: The 1952 textile strike at good hope textiles, King William's town
(Social Dynamics, 1990)
This paper, through a detailed examination of one of the biggest and most significant strikes in the East London region, suggests its importance lies both in the events and processes of the strike itself, and in its longer ...
Swearing at plants: A flash ethnography from Namaqualand
(José Frantz, 2021)
In November 2018 we are at Willem’s veepos (stockpost) halfway
between Paulshoek and Leliefontein in the Kamiesberg mountains. It
is early summer and the scarlet red milkweed locusts (Phymateus morbilossus)
have begun ...
Rethinking medicinal plants and plant medicines
(National Inquiry Services Centre, 2018)
Because plants are perceived as sessile and immobile, they are often represented as objects or
things in current literature. In this paper, I explore variations and shifts in research and literature
since 2000 that ...
Politics, privileges, and loyalty in the Zimbabwe national army
(African Studies Association, 2017)
In postcolonial Africa, the military has become an actor in politics, often
in ways that can be described as unprofessional. This paper focuses on the manner
in which the Zimbabwean National Army (ZNA) has become heavily ...
Embodied urban health and illness in Cape Town: Children’s reflections on living in Symphony Way temporary relocation area
(National Inquiry Services Centre, 2015)
This paper explores ideas about health and illness held by six children who live in the
Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area in Cape Town, South Africa. The research shows
that solutions to illness and health problems ...