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Career Identity Related Decision Making among IsiXhosa-Speaking Adolescents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Andile Alfred Mdikana --- University of Johannesburg, Joseph Seabi --- University of Witwatersrand, Sibusiso Ntshangase Nonkululeko Sandlana --- University of Fort Hare,This study investigated career identity development among IsiXhosa speaking adolescents in South Africa. A sample of 40 Grade 12 learners, comprising 20 females and 20 males participated in the study (Age range 17 to—24 years). The Identity Status Interview of... -
Racial/Ethnic Identity among Creole Peoples in Mauritius
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Christin M. Jungers --- Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA Jocelyn Gregoire --- Duquesne University, USA Leslie Slagel --- Women's Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh, USAThis article provides the findings of qualitative research into the perceptions of racial/ethnic identity among the Creole community of Mauritius. Participants were 24 Creole Mauritians (males = 16, females = 8, age range = 22–69 years). Interview data were collected... -
A network-level explanation for the differences in HIV prevalence in South Africa's racial groups
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Chris Kenyon --- Department of Medicine, South Africa Sipho Dlamini --- Department of Medicine, South Africa Andrew Boulle --- School of Public Health and Family Medicine, South Africa RichardG White --- , United Kingdom Motasim Badri --- Department of Medicine, South AfricaAnalyses of individual-level risk factors have not been able to adequately explain why HIV has spread so extensively in southern Africa and why this has occurred especially within certain racial or ethnic groups. Using data from a longitudinal study of... -
Association of waist circumference with perception of own health in urban African males and females: the Sympathetic Activity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans (SABPA) study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: J Botha --- Physical Activity Sport and Recreation (PhASRec), School of Biokinetics, Recreation and Sport Science, L Malan --- Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART), School for Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences, JC Potgieter --- School for Psychosocial Behavioural Sciences, North-West University, HS Steyn --- Statistical Consultation Service, North-West University, JH De Ridder --- Physical Activity Sport and Recreation (PhASRec), School of Biokinetics, Recreation and Sport Science,Background: Current waist circumference (WC) cut-points of the Joint Statement Consensus (JSC) (male ≥ 94 cm, female ≥ 80 cm) were compared with a recently proposed WC cut-point (RPWC) (male ≥ 90 cm, female ≥ 98 cm). In this study,... -
Lack of association of glycated haemoglobin with blood pressure and subclinical atherosclerosis in black South Africans: a five-year prospective study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: ASE Koegelenberg --- Hypertension in Africa Research Team; North-West University, A Kruger --- Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, GW Towers --- Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, AE Schutte --- Hypertension in Africa Research Team; North-West University,Objectives: Hypertension and diabetes are common in rapidly urbanising sub-Saharan African communities. However, lack of longitudinal data in these regions prevents adequate analysis of the link between measures of glycaemia and cardiovascular disease. Therefore, we examined the relationships of fasting... -
Lack of association of glycated haemoglobin with blood pressure and subclinical atherosclerosis in black South Africans: a five-year prospective study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: ASE Koegelenberg --- Hypertension in Africa Research Team; North-West University, A Kruger --- Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, GW Towers --- Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, AE Schutte --- Hypertension in Africa Research Team; North-West University,Objectives: Hypertension and diabetes are common in rapidly urbanising sub-Saharan African communities. However, lack of longitudinal data in these regions prevents adequate analysis of the link between measures of glycaemia and cardiovascular disease. Therefore, we examined the relationships of fasting... -
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... -
Exclusivity, hybridity and community: negotiating place, ethnicity and South African realities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Michael de Jongh --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,Living on a tract of land in the Soutpansberg allocated to them in 1888 by President Paul Kruger for ‘services rendered’ to the erstwhile Transvaal Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek), is the hybrid and largely exclusive Buys community. As descendants of Jean... -
Exercise in futility or dawn of Afrikaner self-determination: an exploratory ethno-historical investigation of Orania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: FC de Beer --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaDue to their ethnic diversity nation states have the arduous task of accommodating various identity conscious groups within their boundaries. Nation-building programmes and strategies are employed mostly to unite the heterogeneous populations of nation states, as is currently also being... -
‘Racism and ethnicity’: Reflections on the debatable permanence of terminology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: R. D. Coertze --- School of Law, University of South Africa,The concepts of biological and social race currently have debatable value. The first has lost much of its former validity through the increase in our knowledge of the genetic characteristics of humankind. This new knowledge does not support the older... -
Bafokeng, Inc.—Power of the nation/corporation amalgam
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Inge Kriel --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,The concept of ‘Ethnicity, Inc.’ so thoroughly conjoins the ethnic nation with the ethnic corporation that it becomes increasingly difficult to think of one without the other. This article aims to deconstruct this relationship by demonstrating how the ambiguity between... -
Beastly whiteness: Animal kinds and the social imagination in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hylton White --- Dept of Social Anthropology,How do animals enter into the constitution of differences in human affairs? I address the question by showing how, in Zulu households, animals themselves are marked as beings with ethnic properties. If animals can be understood as being ethnically distinguishable,... -
Measurement invariance across gender and ethnicity on the Emotional Quotient Inventory 2.0
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Casper J. J. Van Zyl --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study investigated the measurement invariance of the Emotional Quotient Inventory 2.0 across gender and ethnic groups in South Africa. The sample consisted of 1 144 working adults (female = 49.8%. black = 36.2%, white = 29.8%; other = 34%;... -
“Original Venda hustler”: symbols, generational difference and the construction of ethnicity in post-apartheid South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Fraser G. McNeill --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaThis paper provides an ethnographic analysis of contemporary articulations of “Vendaness” in Pretoria, South Africa. Current ethnic identifications articulate recent fluctuations in political, economic and social dynamics. Two case studies are offered as evidence. I evoke Turner’s symbolism to demonstrate... -
Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Cultural Perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Ian K. Alexander --- Department of Food and Resource Economics, Denmark Benson Honig --- McMaster University, DeGroote School of Business, CanadaThe theory of planned behaviour is widely used to measure entrepreneurial intentions. Thus, we investigate the possible moderating role of indigenous ethnic culture on the attitude-intention, subjective norm-intention and perceived behavioural control-intention relationships. In support of the theory of planned... -
Incidence of intraoperative nausea and vomiting during spinal anaesthesia for Caesarean section in two Cape Town state hospitals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: BJ Magni --- Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, South Africa RA Dyer --- Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, South Africa D van Dyk --- Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, South Africa J van Nugteren --- Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, South Africa -
Farm worker identities contested and reimagined: gender, race/ethnicity and nationality in the post-strike moment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Åsa Eriksson --- Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, SwedenIn 2012/2013, widespread rural unrest — commonly referred to as the “farm worker strike” — broke out in the Western Cape, South Africa. This exposed not only poor salaries and working conditions, but also the disparity between representations of farm... -
War Memories and the Refugees’ Representation in Marie-Thérèse Toyi’s Weep not, Refugee
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Audace Mbonyingingo --- English Department, BurundiDuring the late twentieth century, numerous Great Lakes countries witnessed and experienced massive killings, disappearances, torture and tremendous suffering. Drawing particularly from the tenets of Cathy Caruth (1995, 153), which stipulate that ‘previously forgotten memory traces return and are reworked... -
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... -
Type of diabetes mellitus and health-related quality of life in Nigeria: Ethnic and sex differences
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Onyekachi Prince David --- , Denmark Graham Edgar --- , UK Dianne Catherwood --- , UK Abigail Olubola Taiwo --- , UKThis study examined quality of life (QoL) differences among diabetic patients in Nigeria by ethnicity, sex, and type of diabetes. Out-patients (n = 486) with diabetes mellitus (Type I = 16%; female = 71%; Igbo = 25% Hausa = 22%,... -
Loneliness and psychological well-being among the elderly in Buffalo City, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Anathi Ntozini --- , South Africa Ali Arazeem Abdullahi --- , NigeriaThis study examined the correlation between loneliness and four dimensions of psychological well-being (PWB) of old people in South Africa as they vary by their socio-demographic characteristics. Respondents were a non-probability/random sample of 301 elderly in Buffalo City, South Africa... -
Perception of government employees on the use of biometric technology in determining a person’s ethnic group in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Martins E. Irhebhude --- Nigerian Defence Academy, Nigeria Adeola O. Kolawole --- Nigerian Defence Academy, Nigeria Agwi C. Uche --- Nigerian Defence Academy, Nigeria Adeleye V. Dupe --- Nigerian Defence Academy, NigeriaSelected biometric technologies such as iris, face, gait, voice, etc. are widely used for the recognition of individuals. This paper presents a biometric technology perception by members of staff from government agencies in Nigeria, namely: the National Identity Management Commission... -
Ethnic leadership in Africa: A systematic literature review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Codou Samba --- The University of Tennessee, USA Phyllis Swanzy-Krah --- Universität Leipzig, Germany Charlotte Adjanor-Doku --- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Isaac Delali Darke --- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Baniyelme D. Zoogah --- McMaster University, CanadaThis paper presents a systematic literature review of ethnic leadership in Africa, analyzing 31 peer-reviewed articles published between 1960 and 2024 across multiple disciplines. We define ethnic leadership as the process by which individuals mobilize shared ethnic identity as a... -
The voice of a people: Exploring language and ethnicity among the amaBhaca in uMzimkhulu and KwaBhaca
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Yanga LP Majola --- Tshwane University of Technology Mbombela Campus, South Africa Evangeline B Zungu --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaAmaBhaca speak isiBhaca and belong to the Nguni language and ethnic group; they are predominantly found in parts of uMzimkhulu, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), and most parts of KwaBhaca (formerly Mount Frere) in the Eastern Cape (EC) province in modern-day South Africa...