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Doing Childhoods in the Context of HIV and AIDS: Young Children in Early Schooling Speak
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nithi Muthukrishna --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Fundisa Tshauka --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Hasina Ebrahim --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Thabile Mbatha --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Vuyelwa Ntoi --- University of the Free State,This study investigated children's experiences and understandings of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Grade 3 children (n=31) from the province of KwaZulu-Natal aged between 8–11 years were participants in the study. Data were collected through a four-stage focus group process including activities... -
Discourse Analysis of the Perceptions of Bereavement and Bereavement rituals of Tshivenda Speaking Women
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Makondelele S. Makatu --- University of Pretoria, Claire Wagner --- University of Pretoria, Ilse Ruane --- University of Pretoria, Gertina J. van Schalkwyk --- University of Macau,This article examined the discourses of bereavement and bereavement rituals that inform Tshivenda speaking women's positions within their social structure. The Tshivenda speaking community that participated in this study is located in the Vhembe District of the Limpopo province in... -
‘We Do Not Cook, We Only Assist Them’: Constructions of Hegemonic Masculinity Through Gendered Activity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kopano Ratele --- University of South Africa/Medical Research Council, Tamara Shefer --- University of the Western Cape, Anna Strebel --- Independent Researcher, Elron Fouten --- Rhodes University,This article discusses how the gendering of activity by boys coincides with, contests or recreates constructions of hegemonic masculinity in the context of South Africa. The study used a qualitative methodology including a series of three focus groups with 14–16... -
Male Soldiers' Constructions of Masculinity, Sexuality and Sexual Violence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nyameka Mankayi --- Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South AfricaThis article explores soldiers' constructions of masculinity, sexual practices and gender-based violence, in particular sexual violence towards women. Fourteen male soldiers in the South African National Defence Force between the ages of 23 and 33 years old participated. A discourse... -
South African Educators' Understanding of Bullying
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Corene de Wet --- University of the Free State, South Africa Lynette Jacobs --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThis study examined educators' understanding of learner-on-learner school bullying. Participants were 91 educators from the Free State Province, South Africa (females = 65.9%, primary/elementary school teaching = 46.1%). Data on bullying was collected by means of questionnaires in which a... -
'But where are our moral heroes?' An analysis of South African press reporting on children affected by HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Helen Meintjes Rachel BrayMessages conveyed both explicitly and implicitly in the media play an important role in shaping the public's understanding of issues, as well as in shaping associated policy, programmes and popular responses to these issues. This paper applies discourse analysis to... -
Does a linear-received policy of condom promotion result in a myopic approach to HIV prevention?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nathan GrillsThis commentary discusses how linear models have been utilised to produce HIV-prevention policies that promote condoms. I examine how discourse on condom policy has been used to depict condom-promotion policies as inherently simple and rational, scientifically and economically sound, and,... -
Waging war: discourses of HIV/AIDS in South African media
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Mark Connelly --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Catriona Macleod --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis paper explores a discourse of war against HIV/AIDS evident in the Daily Dispatch, a South African daily newspaper, from 1985 to 2000, and discusses the implications of this in terms of the way in which HIV/AIDS is constructed. The... -
Water policy in southern Africa: A brief synopsis of some of the macro driving forces
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: AR TurtonThe water sector reforms that are underway in many parts of southern Africa are a manifestation of a global phenomenon. This is rooted in the human response to the undesirable consequences of development, and seeks to introduce the notion of... -
Science, transformation and society: a contextual analysis of South Africa’s SANCOR-managed marine and coastal research programmes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: D Scott --- School of Built Environment and Development Studies, Howard College Campus, South AfricaThe paper aims to describe and analyse three research programmes over the period 1995–2011 managed by the South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research (SANCOR), namely the Sea and Coast programmes I and II and the Society, Ecosystems and... -
Parental communication with children about sex in the South African HIV epidemic: raced, classed and cultural appropriations of Lovelines
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Lindy WilbrahamResponsive to perceived high risk of HIV infection by sexually active youth, several South African sexual health-promotion campaigns have used media targeting mothers, instructing them on how sex should be talked about with their children to 'risk-proof' them. A Foucauldian... -
The phenomenology of bodily care: caregivers' experiences with AIDS patients before antiretroviral therapies in Lesotho
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: MokhantšoG MakoaeThis study provides an account of caregivers' experiences with the bodily care of AIDS patients before antiretroviral therapies were available in the public health sector in Lesotho. It describes the mechanisms through which the body may become a stressor in... -
The HIV/AIDS caregiver identity as a double-edged sword: a discourse analysis on HIV/AIDS caregiving in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Vania Ranjbar --- Angered Hospital, SwedenThis article discusses the identity of HIV/AIDS caregivers as constructed by a group of HIV/AIDS caregivers at a non-profit organisation in South Africa. During a 12-month period data were collected through interviews with the organisation's staff and volunteers. Using discourse... -
Generational inversions: ‘working’ for social reproduction amid HIV in Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Casey Golomski --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaHow do people envision social reproduction when regular modes of generational succession and continuity are disrupted in the context of HIV/AIDS? How and where can scholars identify local ideas for restoring intergenerational practices of obligation and dependency that produce mutuality... -
Values in children's stories in South Africa: an exploratory discourse analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Anne Fleischack --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Trudy Meehan --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study explored the presentation and construction of the values in story texts for children in South Africa. The data were from five children's stories from a widely-circulated weekly newspaper. The story content was analysed for value-laden themes child readers... -
“A boy cannot marry another boy”: adolescent boys' talk about ‘gay’ boys at school
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Malose Langa --- School of Community and Development, South AfricaThis study explored how black South African adolescent boys talk about ‘gay’1 in schools. Thirty two boys (age ranged from 13–18 years old) attending two high schools in a historically black South African township took part. Data on their understanding... -
Another world is possible? A critical exploration of Escobar's ‘other worlds/worlds otherwise’
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Amanda Bourne --- Department of Social Anthropology,This article is primarily a literature review that attempts to present and critically discuss, as clearly and concisely as possible, Arturo Escobar's position on ‘development’ as discourse, idea, and billion-dollar industry and the role of anthropology within this, as evidenced... -
Reproducing criticality: South African social-cultural anthropology's contemporary challenge—the UCT experience
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew D. Spiegel --- Department of Social Anthropology,For many who were drawn to the discipline during South Africa's apartheid years, social anthropology offered a means for a cohort of primarily middle class persons to crystallise an otherwise inchoate criticality about the regime, in large part by providing... -
Ocean, time and value: speaking about the sea in Kassiesbaai
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Marieke van Zyl --- Department of Social Anthropology,This article looks at the manner in which different parties engage with the issue of fishing rights on the inter-personal and public levels over the issue of fishing rights allocation in South Africa. Taking the historic fishing village of Kassiesbaai... -
Racist accusations in contemporary South Africa: lessons from studies of witchcraft
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: E.A. Boonzaier --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology,By international consensus, racism features as one of the major evils of our time. Unsurprisingly, therefore, no one wants to be branded a racist. There currently seems to be an epidemic of accusations of racism in South Africa, not altogether... -
Transitional and perpetual liminality: An identity practice perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Sierk Ybema --- VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nie Beech --- University of St. Andrews, Nick Ellis --- Durham University,In this article we combine a focus on ‘liminality’ with an analysis of social actors' discursive practices of identity position taking. An exploration of in-depth organisational studies shorn the relevance of ‘liminality’ as a conceptual focus for describing individuals' identity... -
Decency and exclusion: a symbolic interpretation of post-displacement discriminatory discourse in De Doorns, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nicola M. Hugo --- University of Stellenbosch, South AfricaFrom 14–17 November 2009 an estimated 3000 Zimbabweans were violently and forcefully displaced from their dwellings in a rural farming area, De Doorns, in the Western Cape, South Africa. This study looks into a discourse of decency to contribute, through... -
“Dying is dying, that's all”: Structural violence and cultural projects in Malawian AIDS proverbs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nicole C. Hayes --- Department of Anthropology, CanadaThis paper examines three Malawian proverbs about AIDS: “AIDS came for people”, “Dying is dying, that's all” and “It's in the flour”. Proverbs permit Malawians to discuss the otherwise taboo topic of AIDS because they offer a special register and... -
Stereotypical attitudes amongst black students at a rural historically black South African university
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cebile Mensele --- Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South Africa Kathryn Nel --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Elzabé C. Nel --- Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South Africa Larisa A Louw --- Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThis study investigated stereotypical attitudes towards race amongst Black students (N=274) attending a historically Black South African university (females=62%; mean age of 22.15 years; SD=3.00 years). Data on group stereotyping by race were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. The data... -
Exploring a sample of university students’ perceptions of menstruation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kulthum Ismail --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Athena Pedro --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Michelle Andipatin --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study aimed to explore how a sample of young South African women constructed their perceptions of menstruation. The sample comprised 16 racially/ethnically diverse female university students (blacks = 4, whites = 2, coloured = 8; Christians = 11; Muslims... -
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... -
Constructions of sexuality and HIV risk among young people in Venda, South Africa: implications for HIV prevention
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Veronica Sivhabu --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Maretha Visser --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe study explored constructions of sexuality among young people of Venda in Limpopo, South Africa, and cultural practices that can be used to develop context-specific HIV prevention programmes. HIV prevention can be promoted by including some cultural practices in prevention... -
Presidential Address: Embracing the Secular in our ‘Sacred Scholarly World’
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: David B. Zoogah --- Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Williams College of Business, USAIn this Address, I reflect on the journey of AFAM with regard to its past, present and future. As a new scholarly community, AFAM is called to the sacred society. Its future therefore should be based on the use of... -
Problematizing official narratives of HIV and AIDS education in Scotland and Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Tarsisio Nyatsanza --- , , , South Africa Lesley Wood --- , , South AfricaWhen human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are framed within an intersectional approach, they have the potential to transform understandings of social justice within the curriculum and education policy and practice in general. Yet, this transformative... -
Intertextuality: Decolonising Imperial Narrative in Weep Not, Child
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Addisu Hailu Abebe --- Addis Ababa University, EthiopiaImperial narrative paved the way for the ‘superior white’ and ‘inferior black’ psychology for centuries. This article seeks to determine the impact of intertexts employed in Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o's Weep Not, Child in resisting the imperial discourse. The article identifies... -
An analysis of pre-recorded street audio adverts in Zimbabwe: A dariro perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Tevedzerai Gijimah --- Literature and Cultural Studies, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe Charles Tembo --- University of South Africa, South AfricaStreet vending has become the order of the day in Zimbabwe. Because of the popularity of vending, vendors have come up with various ways of making their goods visible in a highly populated market. Audio advertising is one of the... -
Argument mining from Amharic argumentative texts using machine learning approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Mikru Lake Melie --- Jimma University, Jimma Institute of Technology, Ethiopia Debela Tesfaye --- Jimma University, Jimma Institute of Technology, Ethiopia Alemu Kumilachew Tegegnie --- Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Ethiopia Derejaw Lake Melie --- Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, EthiopiaArgument mining is an emerging science that deals with the automatic identification and extraction of arguments along with their relation from large, unstructured data that are useful for reasoning engines and computational models. Identification and extraction of argument relation from... -
Divergent Housing Spatialities and Gender Subjectivities in Transition: Women's Cooperatives and Poverty Eradication Discourse in Dakar, Senegal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Elettra Griesi --- Collaborative Research Centre 1265, Technische Universität Berlin, GermanyThis article examines the dynamic relationship between spaces and subjectivity, demonstrating how they mutually influence each other to produce distinctive housing spatialities. Through ethnographic research in Thiaroye sur Mer, Dakar (Senegal), I analyze how women's subjectivities, responding to historical processes... -
Idioms in transition: isiZulu idiomatic expressions used in the taxi industry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Sineliso Lindokuhle Thabede --- SANTS Private Higher Education Institution, South Africa Dumisani Ephraim Khumalo --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis study analyses the historical development of isiZulu idiomatic expressions, specifically their expression in the KwaZulu-Natal minibus taxi industry, tracing their evolution from primarily oral traditions to modern visual expressions visible on exteriors and interiors of taxis. Using a hermeneutic... -
Computational analysis of Orientalist discourse in social media: A case study of Twitter
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Qiming Dong --- Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Shasha Zhang --- Hunan University of Information Technology, People’s Republic of China Megat Al Imran Yasin --- Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Chow Ow Wei --- Universiti Putra Malaysia, MalaysiaThe paper presents ORIENT-Net as a tool that processes texts in terms of their orientalist views. This is done by the detection and classification of such texts on social media Twitter. An Orientalist view of the East can see the... -
A discursive engagement of evasions in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Temidayo Akinrinlola --- McPherson University, Nigeria Temitope Michael Ajayi --- University of Ibadan, NigeriaThis study reports the discursive appeals embedded in the deployment of evasions in police-suspect interactions (PSIs) in Ibadan. Studies have marked investigating police officers (IPOs) as participants who overtly wield power during interrogation. This study argues that power is not...
