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Empowering Academics the Viskerian Way
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Philosophy • Authors: Johannes L van der Walt --- Faculty of Education Sciences, Ferdinand J Potgieter --- , Charl C Wolhuter --- ,Academics and/or scholars increasingly feel that their academic voice (combined or individual) has been squelched by the demands of performativity in its various guises, and resultantly, that they have been caught up in a process of steady disempowerment. Rather, it... -
Yvette Christiansë's Oceanic Genealogies and the Colonial Archive: Castaways and Generations from Eastern Africa to the South Atlantic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Meg Samuelson --- Department of English, South AfricaThis article traces tropes of dispersal and continuity in Yvette Christiansë oeuvre as it performs a genealogical enquiry through oceanic spaces and in and out of the colonial archive. Revolving respectively around St Helena and the Cape, both the poetry... -
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... -
Of Oceanic Crossings and Discordant Cultural Adaptations in Post-apartheid Neo-slave Narration
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Serah Namulisa Kasembeli --- English Studies Department, South AfricaThis paper adopts the sea as a productive metaphor to interrogate colonial and apartheid constructions that silence African Indian Ocean cultures. It analyses Therese Benadé’s debut novel, Kites of Good Fortune (2004) to show that whereas the novel depicts the... -
Participative cultural productions of the oppressed: The master-servant dialectic through an Indian lens
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: AC Nisar --- , IndiaThe master-servant and self-substance dialectic in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit presents the self as reflectively negating the particularities of its natural consciousness and transcending towards the social substance in order to inscribe its culturally refined self-conception upon the universal substance... -
Virtuality and subjective realities: A freedom-based ergon for the modern African parent
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Thando Nkohla-Ramunenyiwa --- , South AfricaSchmidt introduces the Aristotelian term “koinonia” as denoting a political community which aims to achieve a common good for society as a whole. A good that promotes the flourishing of every party involved. In addition, Schmidt adopts further insight about... -
Institutional determinants of dividend policy of African listed firms
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Margret Tembo --- University of the Witwatersrand, School of Economics and Finance, South Africa Chimwemwe Chipeta --- University of the Witwatersrand, School of Economics and Finance, South AfricaThis paper examines the institutional determinants shaping the dividend policy of 357 non-financial firms listed across 13 African markets. Utilising panel data estimation techniques, our findings indicate that weaker investor protection, increased financial development, high GDP growth, and greater press...