NISC News

The exploration of Marriage in Southern Africa – Special Issue

Marriage used to be widespread and common throughout Southern Africa. However, over the past decades marriage rates have substantially declined in the whole region.   A special issue on Marriage, spread over Volume 39, Issue 4 and...

AIDS at 35: A midlife crisis

This year marks the 35th since AIDS was first identified and the epidemic now faces a “mid-life” crisis. “It seems to us it is time to take stock of both the successes we have met...

Africanising the philosophy curriculum

South African Journal of Philosophy , Volume 35, Issue 4 is a special issue, entitled “Africanising the philosophy curriculum in Universities in Africa.” The guest editorial, written by Edwin Etieyibo, aims to contextualise the articles...

Translanguaging in the 21st Century

Movement of people within and between nation states has increased exponentially in the early part of the 21st century, and associatively, languages have also increased contact and overlapped with one another. As a result, the...

Blue Whales sighted offshore Kenya

The largest mammal on earth, the Blue Whale, has been sighted in Kenyan offshore waters. These 30 metre gentle giants were sighted on 30 occasions during a geophysical offshore seismic survey off Lamu from September 2014...