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  1. African Journal of AIDS Research

    African Journal of AIDS Research

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    African Journal of AIDS Research (AJAR) is a peer-reviewed research journal publishing papers that make an original contribution to the understanding of social dimensions of HIV/AIDS in African contexts. AJAR includes articles from, amongst others, the disciplines of sociology, demography,...
  2. African Journal of Marine Science

    African Journal of Marine Science

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    The African (formerly South African) Journal of Marine Science provides an international forum for the publication of original scientific contributions or critical reviews, involving oceanic, shelf or estuarine waters, inclusive of oceanography, studies of organisms and their habitats, and aquaculture...
  3. African Journal of Aquatic Science

    African Journal of Aquatic Science

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    The African Journal of Aquatic Science is an international journal devoted to the study of the aquatic sciences, covering all African inland and estuarine waters. The Journal publishes peer-reviewed original scientific papers and short articles in all the aquatic science...
  4. Treading a Delicate Tightrope: A principal balancing between education and political change during turbulent times

    Treading a Delicate Tightrope: A principal balancing between education and political change during turbulent times

    Item type: Books • Author: Mike Burton
    When Mike Burton became the principal of All Saints College in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, little did he know about the journey on which he was embarking. Very soon after taking up the position, Mike realised that the...
  5. African Journal of Range & Forage Science

    African Journal of Range & Forage Science

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    The African Journal of Range & Forage Science is the leading rangeland and pastoral journal in Africa. The Journal is dedicated to publishing quality original material that advances rangeland ecology and pasture management. The journal aims to publish research of...
  6. Anthropology Southern Africa

    Anthropology Southern Africa

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    Anthropology Southern Africa is the peer-reviewed journal of the Anthropology Southern Africa association. Formerly the South African Journal of Ethnology (1994–2001), the journal changed name and focus in 2002. The journal aims to promote anthropology in southern Africa, to support...
  7. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies

    Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies

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    Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (EALCS) is a new international peer-reviewed journal which offers a distinctive, integrated forum for scholarship on the literature, culture and arts of the Eastern Africa region and their widespread influence. The arts and culture...
  8. Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health

    Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health

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    Published from 2003 as the Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health, the Journal aims to contribute towards the development of a robust and inclusive knowledge base for child and adolescent mental health across diverse cultural and professional backgrounds. To this end,...
  9. Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa

    Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa

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    The Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa (JMAA) is published by NISC (Pty) Ltd in association with the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town. It is an accredited, internationally refereed journal that aims to...
  10. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology

    Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology

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    Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology is the leading ornithological journal in Africa, and publishes peer-reviewed scientific papers and short communications on all aspects of ornithology conducted in Africa and its associated islands and marine habitats. Contributions reporting on avian behaviour,...
  11. Quaestiones Mathematicae

    Quaestiones Mathematicae

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    Quaestiones Mathematicae publishes research papers from a wide range of mathematical topics which will often reflect the current mathematical research interests in South Africa; but submissions in English from anywhere in the world are welcome. Acceptance of a paper is...
  12. South African Journal of Plant and Soil

    South African Journal of Plant and Soil

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    The South African Journal of Plant and Soil publishes original articles and commentaries on research on fundamental and applied soil and plant sciences. The journal has a geographical focus on the African continent but welcomes contributions from other parts of...
  13. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

    Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

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    Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies publishes articles on a wide range of linguistic topics and acts as a forum for research into ALL the languages of southern Africa. Original contributions are welcomed on any of the core areas...
  14. Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science

    Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science

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    Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science publishes scientific articles in forest science and management of fast-growing, planted or natural forests in the Southern Hemisphere and the tropics. Papers are also encouraged on related disciplines such as environmental aspects of forestry, social...
  15. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology

    Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology

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    The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology (IPJP) is a peer-reviewed Open Access journal that provides a forum for the publication of research from the Continental Philosophy tradition and which showcases the perspectives of Southern Hemisphere scholars of phenomenology. Whilst phenomenology remains...
  16. Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa

    Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa

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    Focus and Scope The Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa (JEMDSA) is a peer reviewed, medical journal that focuses on Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes. It carries research articles and letters, editorials, clinical practice and other medical articles and...
  17. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development

    African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development

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    Harnessing science and technology, and fostering innovation have become imperatives to address the problems and challenges of structural transformation of the South. This is increasingly so in the context of globalised and knowledge economy. As there is no journal with...
  18. South African Journal of African Languages

    South African Journal of African Languages

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    The South African Journal of African Languages is a peer-reviewed research journal devoted to the advancement of African (Bantu) and Khoe-San languages and literatures. Papers, book reviews and polemic contributions of a scientific nature in any of the core areas...
  19. Africa-Wide Information

    Africa-Wide Information

    Item type: Databases • Author:
    Compiled by NISC in South Africa, Africa-Wide Information comprises an aggregation of 50 databases sourced from Africa, Europe and North America. Africa-Wide provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary information which documents research and publications by Africans and about Africa. Africa-Wide covers close to...
  20. Fish, Fisheries and Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide (FFAB)

    Fish, Fisheries and Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide (FFAB)

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    Fish, Fisheries and Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide (FFAB) is an electronic information resource which is an aggregation of 19 bibliographic databases from around the world. Databases include: a Fisheries and Aquaculture subset of AGRIS (the agricultural database from FAO in Rome), Aquatic Biology Collection...
  21. Waters and Oceans Worldwide (WOW)

    Waters and Oceans Worldwide (WOW)

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    Waters and Oceans Worldwide (WOW) offers comprehensive information for researchers specialising in all aspects of water research. The database collection has two million records and wide international coverage. Prominent themes covered include water supply, water treatment, water quality, sanitation, health,...
  22. Catalogue of Eastern Cape Craft

    Catalogue of Eastern Cape Craft

    Item type: Books • Author: Jen Rowland and Tori Stowe
    OUT OF PRINT   The Eastern Cape is one of the most culturally diverse and interesting regions in South Africa today. It is also home to many skilled artists and craftspeople. The catalogue of Eastern Cape Craft is a project which aims...
  23. Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa

    Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa

    Item type: Books • Author: Phil and Elaine Heemstra
    This up-to-date guide to over 400 species of the fascinating fishes along the coast of southern Africa is written for anyone interested in fish and will appeal to divers, aquarists, fishermen, fish-watchers and students. The work is also of interest...
  24. Doctors for Tomorrow: Family Medicine in South Africa

    Doctors for Tomorrow: Family Medicine in South Africa

    Item type: Books • Author: Jannie Hugo & Lucie Allan
    “The family is the most important level of care in Africa.” Professor Steve Reid, Centre for Rural Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal The changes taking place within family medicine in South Africa today affect the provision of health care in both public and private...
  25. Geomorphology of the Eastern Cape: South Africa

    Geomorphology of the Eastern Cape: South Africa

    Item type: Books • Author: Edited by Colin A Lewis
    Second Edition Revised, redesigned and printed full color throughout! This title includes new work done since the 1st edition in 1996 and incorporates over 40 new figures and photographs. Geomorphology of the Eastern Cape, written by nine leading researchers, collates the past 100...
  26. Groupers of the World: A Field and Market Guide

    Groupers of the World: A Field and Market Guide

    Item type: Books • Author: Matthew T Craig • Yvonne J Sadovy de Mitcheson • Phillip C Heemstra
    Groupers of the World is a detailed but easy-to-use guide to all of the more than 160 recognised species of these mostly large, colourful, tropical reef fishes, also known as rockcod. The book has detailed line drawings of each species and...
  27. Responsible Journalism by Example

    Responsible Journalism by Example

    Item type: Books • Author: Samuel Ngoma
    Responsible Journalism by Example showcases the work of veteran Zambian journalist Samuel Ngoma who has collected together more than 30 of stories out of a body of work running to over two thousand articles produced while at the Times of...
  28. South African Journal of Philosophy

    South African Journal of Philosophy

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    The aim of the South African Journal of Philosophy (SAJP) is to publish original scholarly contributions in all areas of philosophy at an international standard. Contributions are double-anonymized peer-reviewed and include articles, discussions of articles previously published, review articles and...
  29. Taalfasette

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  30. Faithful to the Vision: A History of the Grahamstown Teachers’ Training College 1894 –1975

    Faithful to the Vision: A History of the Grahamstown Teachers’ Training College 1894 –1975

    Item type: Books • Author: Eric Kelly
    A child’s primary education is of vital importance. It requires well-trained teachers with a professional approach to their work. Faithful to the Vision is the story of a teachers’ training college which set about preparing teachers of that very calibre...
  31. Botanical Guide to the Local Wild Flowers of Rhodes Village and Neighbouring Valleys in the Cape Drakensberg

    Botanical Guide to the Local Wild Flowers of Rhodes Village and Neighbouring Valleys in the Cape Drakensberg

    Item type: Books • Author: Brendan Cole
    The Botanical Guide to the Local Wild Flowers of Rhodes Village and Neighbouring Valleys in the Cape Drakensberg offers a comprehensive introduction to the flora found around Rhodes Village in the Cape Drakensberg. Each selected plant is explored in detail,...
  32. Causatives in Kwa: An intragenetic typology

    Causatives in Kwa: An intragenetic typology

    Item type: Books • Author: Reginald Akuoko Duah
    In Causatives in Kwa: An Intragenetic Typology Reginald Akuoko Duah presents a rich description and analysis of the formal types of causative expressions found in the different Kwa languages. Using a variety of language-internal tests, the book brings to light...
  33. ‘I Beg to Tell’: Everyday agency in colonial Lagos, 1940–1960

    ‘I Beg to Tell’: Everyday agency in colonial Lagos, 1940–1960

    Item type: Books • Author: Tunde Decker
    ‘I beg to tell’ – Everyday agency in colonial Lagos, 1940–1960 foregrounds everyday life as a major component of colonial Lagos history. It is an interdisciplinary study of a segment of neglected historical actors in colonial Nigeria with significant implications...
  34. Technological Disruption in Legal Education and Practice: Navigating the complexities and embracing the future

    Technological Disruption in Legal Education and Practice: Navigating the complexities and embracing the future

    Item type: Books • Author: Carika Keulder (editor)
    Law schools and faculties are grappling with how to incorporate technology into their curriculum development, and practitioners are confronting unprecedented doctrinal questions raised by AI and digitalisation. Technological Disruption in Legal Education and Practice is a collection of contributions by...
  35. LVSA: Byblad

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  36. Swimming on the Edge of Extinction: The Perilous State of the Indigenous Freshwater Fish of the Western Cape

    Swimming on the Edge of Extinction: The Perilous State of the Indigenous Freshwater Fish of the Western Cape

    Item type: Books • Author: Craig Garrow, Sean Marr
    This book covers all currently recognized freshwater fish species that are indigenous to the Western Cape. Each species account is illustrated with exceptional photographs of fish in their natural environment together with descriptions of the distribution, biology, status and threats...
  37. Levy Patrick Mwanawasa: An Incentive for Posterity

    Levy Patrick Mwanawasa: An Incentive for Posterity

    Item type: Books • Author: Amos Malupenga
    The books foward is written by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, whose workings knowledge of Mwanawasa started from the time he was Foreign Minister, to the Times he was elected his country's President. It...
  38. Living by Voices we shall Never Hear: Seeing Animals Differently

    Living by Voices we shall Never Hear: Seeing Animals Differently

    Item type: Books • Author: Edited by Pauline & Les Mitchell
    Increasingly we live in a world cut off from nature, with animals understood as simply resources for food, research, power and entertainment. But there are other voices which speak of seeing animals differently and a few of these voices are...
  39. Ethics: Giving a Damn Making a Difference

    Ethics: Giving a Damn Making a Difference

    Item type: Books • Author: Cynthia Schoeman
    Next time someone tells you that ethics doesn’t makes good business sense or that competitive pressure doesn’t allow for an ethical approach, tell them to think again. Not only in South Africa but in companies and institutions across the world,...
  40. South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape

    South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape

    Item type: Books • Author: Edited by Laurence Wright
    South Africa's Education Crisis casts light on the context and causes of the education crisis in the Eastern Cape, as well as drawing together original research, commentary and analysis in language education topics by teacher educators from Rhodes University's Institute...
  41. Grahamstown Cathedral: A Guide and Short History

    Grahamstown Cathedral: A Guide and Short History

    Item type: Books • Author: Charles Gould edited by Jeanette Eve
    The Anglican Cathedral of St Michael and St George stands in solid grandeur at the heart of the city of Grahamstown, its soaring spire a dominating symbol of religious aspiration. Only by entering through its impressive doors can an appreciation of...
  42. We Can: Black Politics in Cradock, South Africa 1948-1985

    We Can: Black Politics in Cradock, South Africa 1948-1985

    Item type: Books • Author: Michael S. Tetelman
    This monograph reflects the broader freedom struggle at the community or grassroots level in South Africa.  Homing in on Cradock, We Can! shows our protest history in all its naked horrors, enduring contradictions, and occasional benign nuances. Michael Tetelman crafts a...
  43. African Zoology

    African Zoology

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    African Zoology, a peer-reviewed research journal, publishes original scientific contributions and critical reviews that focus principally on African fauna in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Research from other regions that advances practical and theoretical aspects of zoology will be considered...
  44. Africa Journal of Management

    Africa Journal of Management

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    The beginning of the Twenty First Century has witnessed Africa’s rise and progress as one of the fastest growing and most promising regions of the world. At the same time, serious challenges remain. To sustain and speed up momentum, avoid...
  45. South African Journal of Accounting Research

    South African Journal of Accounting Research

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    The South African Journal of Accounting Research (SAJAR) publishes peer-reviewed original research papers, notes and commentaries that address issues relevant to accounting academics and professional accountants in Southern Africa and elsewhere. This includes areas of interest in the study and...
  46. Investment Analysts Journal

    Investment Analysts Journal

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    The Investment Analysts Journal is an international, peer-reviewed journal, publishing high-quality, original research three times a year. The journal publishes significant new research in finance and investments and seeks to establish a balance between theoretical and empirical studies. Papers written...
  47. De Ratione

    De Ratione

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  48. Research in Hospitality Management

    Research in Hospitality Management

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    Research in Hospitality Management (RHM) is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing original research that makes a contribution to understandings of hospitality and to the theory and practice of international hospitality management.   In response to rapid, disruptive changes confronting the hospitality...
  49. Nomina Africana: The Journal of African Onomastics

    Nomina Africana: The Journal of African Onomastics

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    Nomina Africana is the journal of the Names Society of Southern Africa and publishes original peer reviewed research that makes a contribution to the field of onomastics on the continent. Studies that deal with any aspects of proper names and the...
  50. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS

    SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS

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    Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS (SAHARA-J) publishes open access research on social factors relating to HIV/AIDS from Sub-Saharan Africa and other developing countries. The journal is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of SAHARA, the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, which...
  51. South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition

    South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition

    Item type: Journals • Author:
    The South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition (SAJCN) accepts articles from all basic and applied areas of dietetics and human nutrition, including clinical nutrition, public health nutrition, food science, food policy, food service management and nutrition policy.    The Journal has a...
  52. African Journal of Herpetology

    African Journal of Herpetology

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    African Journal of Herpetology (AJH)  serves as an outlet for original research on the biology of African amphibians and reptiles. AJH is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes original articles and reviews from diverse fields and disciplines, such as conservation, phylogenetics,...
  53. What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance

    What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance

    Item type: Books • Author: Ayo Adeduntan
    Studies of Yoruba culture and performance tend to focus mainly on standardised forms of performance, and ignore the more prevalent performance culture which is central to everyday life. What the Forest Told Me conveys the elastic nature of African cultural...
  54. Nation, power and dissidence in third generation Nigerian poetry in English

    Nation, power and dissidence in third generation Nigerian poetry in English

    Item type: Books • Author: Sule E. Egya
    Nation, Power and Dissidence in Third Generation Nigerian Poetry in English is a theoretical and analytical survey of the poetry that emerged in Nigeria in the 1980s. Hurt into poetry, the poets collectively raise aesthetics of resistance that dramatises the...
  55. Claude E. Ake - the making of an organic intellectual

    Claude E. Ake - the making of an organic intellectual

    Item type: Books • Author: Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe
    Claude E. Ake, radical African political philosopher of the first four decades of the postcolonial era, stands out as a progressive social force whose writings continue to have appeal and relevance long after his untimely death in 1996. In examining...
  56. Gender Terrains in African Cinema

    Gender Terrains in African Cinema

    Item type: Books • Author: Dominica Dipio
    Gender Terrains in African Cinema reflects on a body of canonical African filmmakers who address a trajectory of pertinent social issues. Dipio analyses gender relations around three categories of female characters – the girl child, the young woman and the...
  57. ISEA 1964-2014: A South African research institute serving people

    ISEA 1964-2014: A South African research institute serving people

    Item type: Books • Author: Edited by Monica Hendricks
    ISEA 1964-2014 is more than the story of the Institute for the Study of English in Africa, recording, as it does, the history of South Africa's longest-established and most influential research institute dedicated to the study and teaching of language.  Avoiding...
  58. White Narratives: The depiction of post-2000 land invasions in Zimbabwe

    White Narratives: The depiction of post-2000 land invasions in Zimbabwe

    Item type: Books • Author: Irikidzayi Manase
    The post-2000 period in Zimbabwe saw the launch of a fast track land reform programme, resulting in a flurry of accounts from white Zimbabweans about how they saw the land, the land invasions, and their own sense of belonging and...
  59. Constitutional Court Review

    Constitutional Court Review

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    The Constitutional Court Review (CCR) is an international journal of record that tracks the work of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. The long essays, replies, articles and case comments use recent decisions to navigate more general currents in the...
  60. Beyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities

    Beyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities

    Item type: Books • Author: Kwesi Yankah
    Beyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities by Kwesi Yankah is the first title in the newly established African Humanities Association (AHA) publication series. By integrating his own biography into a critique of the global politics of knowledge production,...
  61. Parading Respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Parading Respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Item type: Books • Author: Sylvia Bruinders
    Parading respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa is an intimate and incisive portrait of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape of South Africa. Drawing on her own...
  62. The Anglophone Literary-Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse

    The Anglophone Literary-Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse

    Item type: Books • Author: Michael Andindilile
    Michael Andindilile in The Anglophone Literary–Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse interrogates Obi Wali’s (1963) prophecy that continued use of former colonial languages in the production of African literature could only lead to ‘sterility’, as African...
  63. Consensus as Democracy in Africa

    Consensus as Democracy in Africa

    Item type: Books • Author: Bernard Matolino
    Some philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions built into consensus as a...
  64. Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel

    Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel

    Item type: Books • Author: Romanus Aboh
    Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention...
  65. Unshared Identity: Posthumous paternity in a contemporary Yoruba community

    Unshared Identity: Posthumous paternity in a contemporary Yoruba community

    Item type: Books • Author: Babajide Ololajulo
    Unshared Identity employs the practice of posthumous paternity in Ilupeju-Ekiti, a Yoruba-speaking community in Nigeria, to explore endogenous African ways of being and meaning-making that are believed to have declined when the Yoruba and other groups constituting present-day Nigeria were...
  66. Reading the Animal Text in the Landscape of the Damned

    Reading the Animal Text in the Landscape of the Damned

    Item type: Books • Author: Les Mitchell
    Reading the animal text in the landscape of the damned looks at the diverse texts of our everyday world relating to nonhuman animals and examines the meanings we imbibe from them. It describes ways in which we can explore such...
  67. Indigenous Shona Philosophy: Reconstructive Insights

    Indigenous Shona Philosophy: Reconstructive Insights

    Item type: Books • Author: Pascah Mungwini
    Some of the most provocative questions confronting philosophers in Africa are grounded in the historical memory of conquest and the peripheralisation the continent. Mungwini offers a critical reconstruction of indigenous Shona philosophy as an aspect of the African intellectual heritage...
  68. Boxing is no Cakewalk! Azumah ‘Ring Professor’ Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing

    Boxing is no Cakewalk! Azumah ‘Ring Professor’ Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing

    Item type: Books • Author: De-Valera NYM Botchway
      Boxing is no cakewalk! Azumah ‘Ring Professor’ Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing explores the social history of boxing in Ghana and its interesting nexus with the biography of Azumah Nelson, unquestionably Ghana’s most celebrated boxer. The book...
  69. Hollywood and Africa: Recycling the ‘Dark Continent’ Myth, 1908–2020

    Hollywood and Africa: Recycling the ‘Dark Continent’ Myth, 1908–2020

    Item type: Books • Author: Okaka Opio Dokotum
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.2989/9781920033675   Hollywood and Africa - recycling the ‘Dark Continent’ myth, 1908–2020 is a study of over a century of stereotypical Hollywood film productions about Africa. It argues that the myth of the Dark Continent continues to influence Western cultural productions about Africa...
  70. Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media

    Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media

    Item type: Books • Author: Dina Ligaga
    Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media explores familiar constructions of femininity to assess ways in which it circulates in discourse, both stereotypically and otherwise. It assesses the meanings of such discourses and their articulations in various public platforms...
  71. African Personhood and Applied Ethics

    African Personhood and Applied Ethics

    Item type: Books • Author: Motsamai Molefe
    Recently, the salient idea of personhood in the tradition of African philosophy has been objected to on various grounds. Two such objections stand out – the book deals with a lot more. The first criticism is that the idea of...
  72. A contribution to the South African Materia Medica

    A contribution to the South African Materia Medica

    Item type: Books • Author: Andrew Smith of St Cyrus
    A knowledge of the plants imported into the Medical Art is traceable in every country to the early inhabitants. Andrew Smith taught history, geography, philosophy and mathematics, but his real passion was botany. In 1885, he published a humble 23-page pamphlet entitled...
  73. Yabbing and Wording: The artistry of Nigerian stand-up comedy

    Yabbing and Wording: The artistry of Nigerian stand-up comedy

    Item type: Books • Author: Izuu Nwankwọ
    Yabbing and Wording: The artistry of Nigerian stand-up comedy is a long-overdue academic interrogation of the novel stand-up practice in Nigeria as performance. ‘Yabbing’ comes from the Nigerian Pidgin English verb, ‘yab’, which means a satirical jibe thrown at individuals,...
  74. Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's record of a journey with Dorothea Bleek across Angola in 1925

    Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's record of a journey with Dorothea Bleek across Angola in 1925

    Item type: Books • Author: Tony Dold and Jean Kelly (Editors)
    Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's record of a journey with Dorothea Bleek across Angola in 1925 presents the record of a remarkable overland journey documented by the botanist Mary Agard Pocock and illustrated, in colour, with her photographs,...
  75. Wrecking Ball: Why permanent technological unemployment, a predictable pandemic and other wicked problems will end South Africa’s experiment in inclusive democracy

    Wrecking Ball: Why permanent technological unemployment, a predictable pandemic and other wicked problems will end South Africa’s experiment in inclusive democracy

    Item type: Books • Author: Stu Woolman
      Wrecking Ball explores, in an unprecedented manner, a decalogue of wicked problems that confronts humanity: Nuclear proliferation, climate change, pandemics, permanent technological unemployment, Orwellian public and private surveillance, social media that distorts reality, cyberwarfare, the fragmentation of democracies, the inability...
  76. The Selfless Constitution: Experimentalism and Flourishing as Foundations of South Africa’s Basic Law

    The Selfless Constitution: Experimentalism and Flourishing as Foundations of South Africa’s Basic Law

    Item type: Books • Author: Stu Woolman
      Do you possess ‘freedom’—the will to do as you choose—as an individual, as a participant in social affairs or as a citizen in the political realm? Well, no. Not really. At least not as most of us understand a term...
  77. Conversations with Memorable Personalities

    Conversations with Memorable Personalities

    Item type: Books • Author: Amos Malupenga
    Set against a background of the story of Lusaka’s daily newspaper, The Post, where the author worked as one of the founding journalists and ultimately managing editor, Conversations with Memorable Personalities is a collection of 45 interviews with prominent individuals...
  78. Men across time: Contesting masculinities in Ghanaian fiction and film

    Men across time: Contesting masculinities in Ghanaian fiction and film

    Item type: Books • Author: Theresah Patrine Ennin
    Men across time: Contesting masculinities in Ghanaian fiction and film examines the various constructions and manifestations of masculinities from precolonial, colonial, independent and post-independent Ghana as portrayed in selected Ghanaian fiction, film and music videos. Two main questions are engaged...
  79. Queer Bodies in African Films

    Queer Bodies in African Films

    Item type: Books • Author: Gibson Ncube
    Queer Bodies in African Films makes two overarching interventions. First, the book focuses on how queer bodies in films are texts. As sites invested with multiple and often overlapping discourses and narratives, queer bodies in films textualise silenced narratives and...
  80. Beyond Monuments: The politics and poetics of memory in post-war northern Uganda

    Beyond Monuments: The politics and poetics of memory in post-war northern Uganda

    Item type: Books • Author: Laury L. Ocen
    Beyond Monuments: The politics and poetics of memory in post-war northern Uganda explores themes of war and peace, displacement and return, and remembering and forgetting, depicted as experiences of survivors of mass violence in the northern Uganda civil wars between...
  81. Music and urban youth identities: A study of ghetto youth in contemporary culture and politics in Zimbabwe

    Music and urban youth identities: A study of ghetto youth in contemporary culture and politics in Zimbabwe

    Item type: Books • Author: Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga
    When the Zimbabwean government imposed the 75% local content policy in 2001, young people began dominating the music scene, marking a dramatic turn in the history of Zimbabwean music and entertainment. Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga’s Music and Urban Youth Identities: A...
  82. Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry since 1947

    Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry since 1947

    Item type: Books • Author: Sibanengi Ncube
    Zimbabwe’s agrarian history has attracted robust scholarly attention over time. Much of it has, however, focused on encounters between white settler farmers and Africans over control of resources. Scholars have also focused on how the postcolonial state has undermined the...
  83. Bettering their foods: Peasant production, nutrition and the state in Malawi, 1859–2005

    Bettering their foods: Peasant production, nutrition and the state in Malawi, 1859–2005

    Item type: Books • Author: Bryson G. Nkhoma
    Despite the long history of agricultural interventions globally, peasants from Malawi and beyond continue to face the challenge of sustainable food production and nutrition. Bettering their foods: Peasant food production, nutrition and the state in Malawi, 1859–2005 weaves together the...
  84. The Shame of Shame: (in) contemporary South African performance

    The Shame of Shame: (in) contemporary South African performance

    Item type: Books • Author: Abigail Wiese
    The Shame of Shame: (in) contemporary South African performance looks at the agency of shame, and how shame is the most intimate of affects and critical in the formation of our sense of Self, regardless of our recognition of it...
  85. Otolith Atlas of Marine Fishes of Southern Africa and Adjacent Oceans: Second Edition – expanded

    Otolith Atlas of Marine Fishes of Southern Africa and Adjacent Oceans: Second Edition – expanded

    Item type: Books • Author: Malcolm J Smale and Gillian Watson
    In this new edition, the Otolith Atlas of Marine Fishes of Southern Africa and Adjacent Oceans, authors Malcolm J Smale and Gillian Watson have expanded the coverage of the original benchmark work by Smale, Watson and Hecht (1995) to include...
  86. Living with ‘Others’: Ethnic conflict and pluralism in Uganda’s Greater Kibaale Region

    Living with ‘Others’: Ethnic conflict and pluralism in Uganda’s Greater Kibaale Region

    Item type: Books • Author: Jimmy Spire Ssentongo
    One of the enduring challenges of postcolonial Africa is that of living with ethnic difference within the complex legacies of colonial ethnic manipulation. Many studies on ethnic conflict focus on explaining embedded causal dynamics with little attention paid to ethnic...
  87. Marrying Accidentally: The story of Hatsuko Takara

    Marrying Accidentally: The story of Hatsuko Takara

    Item type: Books • Author: Amos Malupenga
    The story of Hatsuko Takara-Kalabula is one of a Japanese woman who decided to visit Zambia back in the 1970s, fell in love with the country and its people, and chose to stay. It is also an inspiring story about the...
  88. A Powerhouse of the Spirit: The Life and Art of Sister Margaret Watson of Grahamstown

    A Powerhouse of the Spirit: The Life and Art of Sister Margaret Watson of Grahamstown

    Item type: Books • Author: William Barham
    A Powerhouse of the Spirit tells the story of a remarkable woman, Margaret Watson, who left her conventionally middle-class home in England to join an Anglican sisterhood - the Community of the Resurrection of Our Lord - in Grahamstown (now Makhanda) at...

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