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The Seventh-Day Adventist church and the quest for transformational development in contemporary Nigeria perspectives from an empirical study
(Southern African Missiological Society, 2022)
This article discusses the findings of an empirical study that investigated the attitudes
of different sections of the membership of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA)
Church to the socio-economic and political struggles ...
“Youth speaking truth to power”: Intersectional decolonial activism in Namibia
(Springer, 2022)
This article portrays a recent movement towards intersectional activism in urban
Namibia. Since 2020, young Namibian activists have come together in campaigns
to decolonize public space through removing colonial monuments ...
A “poor man’s pleasure”: The cinema house and its publics in twentieth century South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
What do cinema houses have to tell us about the experience ofcollective leisure in early twentieth-century South Africa? Thisarticle considers how the cinema house points to unprecedentedsocial conditions that allowed the ...
The road not travelled: Tracking love in Frank Anthony’s the journey: The revolutionary anguish of Comrade B
(2023)
The Journey (1991) is a virtually unknown “struggle” novel by Frank Anthony
(d. 1993), a senior member of the African People’s Democratic Union of
Southern Africa (APDUSA), who was incarcerated on Robben Island for ...
Apartheid and the unconscious: An introduction
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
This special issue invited contributors to revisit J.M. Coetzee’s “The Mind of Apartheid,” first published in Social Dynamics in 1991. Here, Coetzee asks what it might mean to come to terms with apartheid:It is not ...
Government by grants: The post-pandemic politics of welfare
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020)
In April 2020, with South Africa in national lockdown, president Cyril
Ramaphosa announced the Covid-19 relief program on a scale he called
‘historic’. He affirmed that the state would not only reestablish the economy
but ...
Religious leaders as agents of Lgbtiq inclusion in east Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2023)
When Ugandan parliamentarians passed a new Anti-Homosexuality Bill in March 2023, they reportedly did so under pressure from, and with the enthusiastic support of, religious leaders.1 In other African countries, too, recent ...