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Use of Web 2.0 by students in the Faculty of Information Science and Communications at Mzuzu University, Malawi
(AOSIS, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Over the years, advancements in Internet technologies have led to the emergence
of new technologies such as Web 2.0, which have taken various sectors including higher
education by storm. Web 2.0 technologies ...
Experiences of mentorship with academic staff doctoral candidates at a South African university
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Given the growing emphasis on academic research output and the challenges encountered in expediting completion of doctoral studies especially, mentorship is increasingly being utilised as a capacity development strategy ...
Identity, race and faith: The role of faith in post-Apartheid South Africa
(AOSIS, 2016)
South Africa has experienced an unprecedented influx of migrants in the 21st century.
Immigration and race have contributed to the raising of important questions of identity
and social inclusion. Immigration and race are ...
What French for Gabonese French lexicography?
(SUN, 2016)
This paper is a response to Mavoungou (2013a) who has pleaded for the production of a dictionary of Gabonese French as variant B of the French language. The paper intends to comprehend the concept of "Gabonese French". It ...
Red assembly: The work remains
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
The work that emerged from the encounter with Red, an art installation by Simon
Gush and his collaborators, in the workshop ‘Red Assembly’, held in East London in
August 2015, is assembled here in Kronos, the journal of ...
Oral literature in South Africa: 20 years on
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
I offer a retrospective on the field of orality and performance studies in South Africa from the perspective of 2016, assessing what has been achieved, what may have happened inadvertently or worryingly, what some of the ...
Personhood and the “multiple self” view
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2016)
This paper critically assesses the supposition that the best way to capture the intuition
that the concept of personhood has practical importance is to analyse personhood in
terms of multiple selves. It explores the works ...
‘The voices of the people involved’: Red, representation and histories of labour
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
The installation artwork Red by Simon Gush (with his collaborators James Cairns and Mokotjo Mohulo) evokes two senses of representation. One is of symbolism, meaning, visual strategies, juxtapositions, silences and so on. ...
Language policy and orthographic harmonization across linguistic, ethnic and national boundaries in Southern Africa
(Springer Verlag, 2016)
Drawing on online and daily newspapers, speakers' language and
writing practices, official government documents and prescribed spelling systems in
Southern Africa, the paper explores the challenges and possibilities of ...
Towards a democratisation of new media spaces in multilingual/multicultural Africa: A heteroglossic account of multilocal and multivoiced counter-hegemonic discourses in Zambian online news media
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2016)
This paper explores the production of hybrid cultural identities in Zambian online news websites. Using extracts from five popular online newspapers, namely Lusaka Times, The Post, Kachepa360, Zambia Reports and Zambian ...