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AIDS, order and 'best practice' in the South African workplace: managers, peer educators, traditional healers and folk theories
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: David DickinsonThis article examines the response of three medium-sized South African manufacturing companies to HIV/AIDS. It is argued that the response is heavily influenced by managerial conceptions of workplace order — sometimes divergent from industrial realities — which results in the... -
Sex, disease and stigma in South Africa: historical perspectives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Peter Delius Clive GlaserThis paper attempts to analyse historically why stigma and denial around HIV/AIDS is so powerful in South Africa, so powerful that ailing family members can be shunned and evicted. For many observers, the answer lies simply in its being a... -
Wearing the T-shirt: an exploration of the ideological underpinnings of visual representations of the African body with HIV or AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: AnnwenE BatesThe article takes a hermeneutic approach to exploring a selection of visual representations of the African body in relation to the issue of HIV and AIDS in Africa. In particular, it argues that the trope of 'deficiency' ('lack'), wherein Africa... -
The sociality of nesting in Rüppell's Weaver Ploceus galbula and the Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius in an Ethiopian acacia woodland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: David C Lahti --- Department of Biology, Queens College, USARüppell's Weaver Ploceus galbula and the Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius nest prominently in the Awash National Park, Ethiopia. In both species the sociality or degree of aggregation of their nesting is varied. Rüppell's Weaver can nest singly or in... -
Europe's long history of extracting African renewable energy: Contexts for African scientists, technologists, innovators and policy-makers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Kate B. Showers --- Centre for World Environmental History, United KingdomHaving failed to identify local energy supplies compliant with Kyoto Protocol obligations, the EU turned to Africa in the 21st C. According to definition, the term ‘renewable energy’ source equally describes slaves, forests and rivers. Environmental history analysis demonstrates the... -
Why Africa Journal of Management and Why Now?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Stella M. Nkomo --- Department of Human Resource Management, South Africa David Zoogah --- Earl Graves School of Business, USA Moses Acquaah --- Department of Management, Bryan School of Business and Economics, USAIn this article, we provide the background as well as the rationale for the decision to establish the Africa Journal of Management. We begin by telling the story of the genesis of AFAM and its aspirational mission. Next, we discuss... -
Management Studies from Africa: A Cross-cultural Critique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Terence Jackson --- Middlesex University Business School, UKThis article presents a critical cross-cultural appraisal of management scholarship concerning Africa, considering differences between scholarship on Africa, scholarship for Africa, and scholarship from Africa. It looks at how Africa has been conceptualized and portrayed in the management literature from... -
Aspects of tourism in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: John Middleton --- Yale University, USATourism in Kenya dates back to the colonial era. Tourists have invented a map of Kenya that comprises mainly the Rift Valley and the Indian Ocean coast; and they divide the population into ‘noble’ pastoralists and less noble agriculturalists and... -
At home to the other: the racialising and deracialising of anthropological research in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Robin Palmer --- Department of Anthropology,There is an older and even more enduring split in South African anthropology than the erstwhile division between ‘English’ and ‘Afrikaans’ anthropologies, but it is never acknowledged. This is the racial split between whites who privilege the Other, usually the... -
Good or bad, my heritage: customary legal practices and the liberal constitution of postcolonial states
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Thomas Widlok --- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, NetherlandsThe post-colonial constitutions of Namibia (1990) and of South Africa (1996) in principle allow for ‘indigenous’ or ‘customary’ law within the framework set by constitutional law. Developments in recent years, in particular in the course of debates surrounding the reform... -
A conversation: subaltern studies in South Asia and post-colonial anthropology in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Helen Macdonald --- Department of Social Anthropology,Subaltern Studies emerged at the end of the 1970s among a collective of English and Indian historians of South Asia, and developed into a creative and malleable reworking of knowledge(s). Importantly. the subalternists contributed to an interdisciplinarity that displayed a... -
‘We can be united, but we are different’: discourses of difference in postcolonial Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Michael Akuupa --- Dept of Anthropology and Sociology,Social scientists who have written about the dynamics of festival rituals have analysed such practices variously as celebrations of commonality, as the enhancement of social cohesion, or as expressions of nostalgia. Festivals have also been studied as spaces where information... -
Hostile Witnesses and Queer Life in Kenyan Prison Writing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi --- Department of English, CanadaThis article explores three Kenyan political prison narratives, J. M. Kariuki's Mau Mau Detainee (1963), Ngugi wa Thiong'o’s Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (1981), and Maina wa Kĩnyatti's Kenya: A Prison Notebook (2009), as archives of anxious disputes over alternative... -
Sex in troubled times: moral panic, polyamory and freedom in north-west Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Steven Van Wolputte --- Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa, BelgiumIn Namibia, early missionaries among the Herero were intrigued by the important role of the matriclan, as it did not fit their ideals of a pastoral society. Despite their obsession with female sexuality, metonymically expressed in concerns over political organisation... -
Casts, bones and DNA: interrogating the relationship between science and postcolonial indigeneity in contemporary South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Katharina Schramm --- Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, GermanyThis paper discusses the articulation and complex enactment of postcolonial indigeneity, commonly referred to as Khoesan revivalism in contemporary South Africa. Through a close examination of the “substances of indigeneity,” i.e. body casts, human remains and DNA, it interrogates the... -
The Outsider Within: An Analysis of the Representation of Power and Language in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Mohammad Shabangu --- Department of English, GermanyUsing Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, this article argues that Salih employs the precariousness of language as a key organizing principle for his novel about cultural deracination. In doing so, he calls into question the very sense... -
Rerouting the Postcolonial from an East African Perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Alex Nelungo Wanjala --- Department of Literature & Sub-Department of French, KenyaSome postcolonial critics have recently called for a rerouting of the postcolonial study of literature due to what they perceive as increased globalization that affects the identity and worldview of the subject. Various critics have also called for attention to... -
Writing (as) Africans — French Fiction Between Empathy and Orientalism
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Oana Panaïté --- Department of French and Italian, United StatesThis article examines the impact colonial ideology and discursive practices have on French writing about Africa. I begin by examining the constitution and reiteration of a series of defining scenes such as the momentous departure for the African colonies and... -
Before Colonialism: Oral and Written Textualities in the Polyglotic Zone of the Horn of Africa: The Case of Tigrinya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ghirmai Negash --- English and Postcolonial Literatures, African Studies Program, USAIn recent postcolonial literary and cultural studies, there has been renewed interest in the history and vitality of African-language textualities of the pre-colonial era. This article explores new terrain, surveying and shedding light on some of the significant texts and... -
High occurrence of extra-pair partnerships and homosexuality in a captive Cape Vulture Gyps coprotheres colony
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Margaret T Hirschauer --- VulPro NPC, South Africa Kerri Wolter --- VulPro NPC, South AfricaThe Cape Vulture Gyps coprotheres is an Endangered colonial cliff-nesting species that is typically cited as monogamous. Observations of wild Cape Vulture colonies note extra-pair breeding activities but homosexual activity has never been confirmed. Observations of breeding behaviours within a... -
Rapping with a Forked Tongue, Code-switching and the Tribalized Kenya of the end of the Twentieth Century in ‘Otongolo Tyme’ by Poxi Presha
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Tom Michael Mboya --- Department of Literature, Theatre and Film Studies, KenyaIn this article politics is argued to be an important driver of the practice of codeswitching in the kinds of texts — like popular music texts — that are produced for extensive circulation within the African post-colony. The argument is... -
An appraisal of the coloniality of the proposed rural property tax in Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Goemeone E.J. Mogomotsi --- Department of Legal Services, Office of the Vice Chancellor, Botswana Patricia Kefilwe Mogomotsi --- Okavango Research Institute, University of Botswana, BotswanaThe government of Botswana has recently announced the introduction of property rates in order to generate revenue to address rural-urban migrations. The revenue base is intended for local authorities to generate employment in their areas of administration. This article probes... -
A reflection on a visual ethnography of Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rosa Persendt --- Contemporary Social Issues Unit, Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs), NamibiaIn this essay, Rosa Persendt reflects on Gregor Dobler's photo essay “Presence and Absence: Shops as Traces of Hopes in Apartheid Namibia” which deals with ethnographic photos taken of empty cucu [trading stores] opened in the early 1950s and the... -
Migritude’s Decolonial Lessons
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Neelofer Qadir --- Department of English, USAIn this essay, I trace the deep time of the Indian Ocean through and against which Shailja Patel fabulates the notion of migritude and, in particular, what its valences are for solidarities between black and brown Kenyans and other south-south... -
Okonkwo in Harare? Reading the Poem ‘Déjà vu’ by Nhamo Mhiripiri through an Intertextual Lens
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Barbra Chiyedza Manyarara --- Curriculum & Arts Education Department (Senior Lecturer), Faculty of Education, South AfricaNew generations of poets such as Nhamo Mhiripiri offer works that question the contemporary being of Africa by exploring the continuities and disruptions between her pre-colonial past and her postcolonial present. Subtly nuanced, such poetry is often concerned with issues... -
Behavioural analysis of Village Weavers Ploceus cucullatus in an Ethiopian breeding colony during early incubation: 2. Males
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Khaleda Khan --- Department of Biology, Queens College, USA Bobby Habig --- Department of Biology, Queens College, USA David C Lahti --- Department of Biology, Queens College, USAWe observed a colony of Village Weavers Ploceus cucullatus in Ethiopia at the height of the breeding season to assess variation and relationships amongst male behaviours. Individuals spent most of their time on behaviours functioning in acquiring and retaining mates,... -
Mau Mau Author in Detention: The Subversive ‘We’ in a Colonial Era Detention Diary
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ken Walibora Waliaula --- , KenyaIn seeking an answer to the question as to why Kenyan author Gakaara wa Wanjau penned Mau Mau Author in Detention, we may consider the fact that he wrote other works as well — before, during, and after his detention... -
Variation in colony sizes of weavers from a citizen science project
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Hans-Dieter Oschadleus --- , South AfricaThe project PHOWN (PHOtos of Weaver Nests) is a citizen science project that collects breeding distributions and colony sizes of weaverbirds (Ploceidae) globally. PHOWN began in mid-2010 and has collected nearly 30 000 records in 9.5 years. This paper provides... -
Lady Kennaway: A ship story
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Phindi Mnyaka --- , South AfricaMy paper is a meditation on the performativity of history writing and uses the case of the ship, Lady Kennaway, as a point of departure. Lady Kennaway was a 19th century ship whose last voyage included transporting young women to... -
Creative Writing as Literary Activism: Decolonial Perspectives on the Writing Workshop
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire --- , USA Madhu Krishnan --- , UKThis paper explores the concept of literary activism by reflecting on a co-productive creative writing project run by the University of Bristol (United Kingdom) and the Center for African Cultural Excellence (Uganda). It considers how the space of the creative... -
Trauma, History and Desire in the Indian Ocean Imaginary. A Reading of M.G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets as Material Culture
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Esther Pujolràs-Noguer --- , SpainWe can determine small truths about what happened in the past, but they coalesce into a large falsehood Jules David Prown ‘Trauma, History and Desire in the Indian Ocean Imaginary. A Reading of M.G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets as... -
Modernisation from the Shadows: Conspiracy, Monasticism and Techno-Utopia in the Amharic novel Dertogada
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Sara Marzagora --- , UK Tom Boylston --- , UKThe Amharic novel Dertogada (2009) was a smash hit in Ethiopia, launching Yismake Worku’s career as one of the most popular Amharic writers of the last decade. This paper explores Dertogada’s huge cultural influence by tracing its unique synthesis between... -
Women offenders’ experiences of rehabilitation in a South African correctional centre
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sibulelo Qhogwana --- , South Africa Puleng Segalo --- , South AfricaThis study explored gendered rehabilitation of women in correctional spaces and the systems and structures that recreate inequities in women’s incarceration experiences. Eighteen black women completed in-depth interviews on their offender rehabilitation experiences. Their age ranged from 23 to 69... -
Surviving the Genocide: The Singularity of Suffering in Yvonne Owuor's “Weight of Whispers”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Edgar Fred Nabutanyi --- , UgandaAlthough Theodor Adorno famously declared in 1983 that to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric, profound acts of horror have inspired many literary masterpieces. The 1994 Rwandan genocide is no exception, having motivated some of Africa’s literary gems. While... -
Wangari Maathai’s Environmental Bible as an African Knowledge: Eco-spirituality, Christianity, and Decolonial Thought
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Adriaan van Klinken --- , UKRecent scholarship has acknowledged the contribution of the environmental activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), to African ecological and decolonial thinking. As far as Maathai’s engagement with religion is concerned, scholarship emphasises her critique of Christianity for... -
Policing the (post)colonial body: The Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Amber Reed --- , United States of America Ziyanda Xaso --- , South AfricaIn March 2020, South Africa enacted one of the world’s most severe lockdowns to combat the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Whilst this action received international praise, its implementation by the armed security forces in many ways mirrored colonial and apartheid-era controls on... -
The Feminist Writer and the Subaltern: A Perspective on Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Andrew Nyongesa --- , Kenya Joseph Gaita Murimi --- , Kenya Justus Kizito Makokha --- , KenyaDominant literary conversations like post-structuralism have crowned the literary writer as an impartial and reliable voice for the voiceless in oppressive cultural settings. Since the marginal group is weak and cannot speak for themselves, the intellectual is given express authority... -
A meeting with gardenia: an ethnographic exploration of multispecies relationships and space construction in Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: James Granelli --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaIn an age of climate and ecological breakdown, questions of how we relate to the natural world and the more-than-human beings around us are more important than ever. This ethnography seeks to bring these questions to the Kirstenbosch National Botanical... -
World War 1 and Colonialism in Kenya: Perspectives through Historiography and Literary Imaginaries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jairus Omuteche --- Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, KenyaDuring World War I, what is today Kenya was part of the British East African Protectorate. Direct fighting took place within the region as the neighbouring Tanzania was a German colony. The cultural and economic repercussions of the war transformed... -
Colonial Infrastructure and its Post-Independence Afterlives in Peter Kimani’s Dance of the Jakaranda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Felix Mutunga Ndaka --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaPeter Kimani’s Dance of the Jakaranda (2017a) is constructed around two structures, the Kenya-Uganda Railway and the Jakaranda Hotel. In this article, I argue that the narration of these structures and their survival in independent Kenya enable a revisiting of... -
Performing multispecies studies in Southern Africa: historical legacies, marginalised subjects, reflexive positionalities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Paula Alexiou --- University of Cologne, Germany Julia Brekl --- University of Cologne, Germany Emilie Köhler --- University of Cologne, Germany Wisse van Engelen --- University of Cologne, GermanyMultispecies studies are known for tackling human exceptionalism. Whilst the field has seen a remarkable increase in popularity amongst scholars in the humanities and social sciences, critiques argue that it neglects inequalities and consequential differences amongst humans and between humans... -
Killing tsetse and/or saving wildlife? A multispecies assemblage in colonial Zambia (1895–1959)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Léa Lacan --- University of Cologne, GermanyThis article investigates the problem of the tsetse fly and the trypanosomiasis disease it conveys as a transforming multispecies assemblage in colonial Zambia from the late nineteenth century until 1959. Based on archival research, it analyses the tsetse fly (Glossina... -
‘Back Home in the States’: The African’s Quest for Home in Postcolonial Africa in Chains of Junkdom by Okiya Omtata Okoiti
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Tom Michael Mboya --- Moi University,This paper is a reading of the Kenyan psychological drama, Chains of Junkdom by Okiya Omtata Okoiti as an artistic contribution to a long-running debate on the definition of home in postcolonial Kenya. The two major positions in the debate... -
‘The Happy Valley’: Temporalized Spatiality in Michael Radford’s White Mischief (1987)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Boneace Chagara --- Institute for Asian and African Studies, GermanyContemporary times mark a fundamental shift in our sense and experience of the world. The postmodern condition — as remarked by Fredric Jameson (1991) and Jean-Francois Lyotard (1979), among others — calls for new conceptions of lived reality. Nevertheless, profound... -
Contested landscapes: fragments and afterlives of the colonial rail in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Samwel Moses Ntapanta --- University of Bayreuth, GermanyThis article traces the fragments and afterlife of the colonial rail as a material object in Tanzania. The rail was a tool for exploitation and proper control of the colony. The rails changed the land. The land was shaped and... -
Dear Mr Sobukwe: examining Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe’s pan-African vision and how it has influenced youth movements in South Africa today
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Karabo-Maya Rodwell --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaPan-Africanism is experiencing a resurgence amongst young people in post-1994 South Africa. In this article, I explore how people across different generations interpret the legacy of a critical figure in South African history, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. The participants in this... -
Why traditional diets are more relevant than ever today
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Karen Cheryl Morris --- Naturopath, South Africa Thandi Puoane --- University of the Western Cape, SAThe current epidemic of obesity and its co-morbidities reflect an urgent need to reform our modern eating patterns. This commentary proposes the reclamation of our traditional diets of the precolonial, preindustrial era, which are argued to be more sustainable, in... -
The legacy of the Maxim machine gun in postcolonial Africa: Implications for governance and management scholarship
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Moses N. Kiggundu --- , CanadaThe essay draws on aspects of British colonial history to throw light on Africa’s postcolonial state and society. Under the leadership of Captain Lugard, drawing from the principles of the dual mandate and indirect rule, colonialists employed the then most... -
Anticolonial Networks and Unbalances in Literary Journals and Bulletins: Mensagem, Présence Africaine and Black Orpheus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Noemi Alfieri --- CHAM, NOVA FCSH/UaC, PortugalThis paper looks at the connections between the editorial projects of Mensagem (edited in Lisbon, by Casa dos Estudantes do Império, 1948–1965), Présence Africaine (Paris, France and Dakar, Senegal, from 1947) and Black Orpheus (Ibadan, Nigeria, 1957–1975). It reflects on... -
Psychotherapy in South African indigenous languages: Positioning isiXhosa as a language of symbolisation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Ntokozo Gqweta --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThe sociopolitical history of language use in South Africa is controversial and complex. This article utilises postcolonial theory to problematise the historical pattern of language use in South Africa to oppress black people. African psychology and Afrocentricity are used to... -
Unveiling Kianda: a multifaceted symbol in Luanda, Angola
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kyeri Kim --- Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Global Campus, Republic of KoreaThis article explores how Kianda, an (un)official urban symbol of Luanda, the capital of Angola, is rooted in the cosmological worldview of residents of Luanda’s Cabo Island (Ilha do Cabo, also known as Ilha de Luanda) and how it has... -
Ukuphithikeza nokugxobha ingcingane yeelwimi zaseAfrika njengeelwimi ezenziwa ubunkcubabuchopho
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Simthembile Xeketwana --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaIilwimi zaseAfrika kudala zaba nobungqondi kwaye obo bungqondi kumele bugqobhozele kwiindlela ezi lwimi ezisetyenziswa ngayo, ncakasana kumaziko emfundo ephakamileyo. Ngoko ke, iilwimi zaseAfrika aziqalanga ukuba nobungqondi emva kowe1994, okanye ukufika kwamamishinari kweli lo Mzantsi Afrika, neAfrika iphela. Ngokukhokelwa yinkcazobungcali yasemva... -
With an Effluent Eye: Migrancy, Excess, and Belonging in Jane Bryce’s Zamani
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Sam Dennis Otieno --- The Pennsylvania State University, USAThis article examines Jane Bryce’s Zamani (2023) through the conceptual lens of the effluent eye, drawing on Rosemary Jolly’s (2023) theorization of effluence alongside Achille Mbembe’s (2019) necropolitics and Mahmood Mamdani’s (2020) critique of ethnic nationalism. I argue that Zamani...