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The development of a GIS atlas of southern African freshwater fish
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: LEP Scott PH Skelton AJ Booth L VerheustA geographic information systems (GIS) based atlas of southern African freshwater fish has been developed for the SADC countries. The JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology, in collaboration with ALCOM, has developed a database of freshwater fish for this region from... -
Cruising queer, old Joburg
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jonathan Cane --- Wits City Institute, South AfricaThe article presents a queer reflection on the method of Walter Benjamin in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using a critical method of ephemera collection and collage, it offers a layered and provocative map of the city before the end of apartheid... -
Latitudinal changes in siphonophore assemblages across the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: D Kuyper --- , South Africa D Thibault --- , France MJ Gibbons --- , South AfricaSiphonophores are commonly considered to be useful indicators of water masses and water-mass movement, but their employment as such across the wider Southern Ocean has not so far been attempted. We redress this here using archived samples, collected during January–February... -
Queer Fragmentation as Method: Nairobi’s Example
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Eddie Ombagi --- , South AfricaThe everyday life of queer individuals, their experiences and scopes are lived in relation to the various fragments that structure sociability. Queer lives are first and foremost fragmented and fragmentary in their everyday survival practices and tactics. If we understand... -
Wakurugenzi Networks: Reframing Kenyan Vernaculars of Gender/Gendering in Abel Mutua’s YouTube Channel
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Felix Mutunga Ndaka --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaDuring the Kenyan Covid-19 lockdown, Abel Mutua, a renowned actor, scriptwriter and comic created a YouTube channel that has instructively transformed a virtual space into a storytelling platform. The channel presents narrations on a diverse range of topics presented in... -
The challenge of using museum specimens to track the emergence of a pathogen: a case study from amphibian chytrid fungus in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: TM Doherty-Bone --- Natural History Museum London, M Perkins --- Zoological Society of London, AA Cunningham --- Zoological Society of London,Archived specimens can provide insights on emerging infectious diseases through the tracking of the progression or occurrence of a pathogen through time. Specimen fixation and preservation may however affect detectability of pathogens, obscuring the signal of emergence. A case study...