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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
‘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...