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The infrastructural passions of urban mutuality
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Christine Hentschel --- Institute for Criminological Research, GermanyThe article suggests an “infrastructural” approach to mutuality in the city. What organises mutuality is less a matter of the common urban horizon or the grown community than of “enabling conditions” (Calhoun) we would call infrastructures: their makeup shapes how... -
A Profile of the East African Community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Frederick Onyango Ogola --- Strathmore University Business School, Kenya George N. Njenga --- Strathmore University Business School, Kenya Peter C. Mhando --- The Pennsylvania State University, USA Moses N. Kiggundu --- Carleton University Sprott School of Business, CanadaRegional integration in East Africa dates back more than a hundred years. This article provides a general synopsis of the East African Community (EAC) and traces the evolution of regional integration in Eastern Africa from colonial times to the present... -
An index of waste: humanitarian design, “dignified living” and the politics of infrastructure in Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Peter Redfield --- Department of Anthropology, United States of America Steven Robins --- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, South AfricaThis article develops a framework for thinking about waste as an index that signals a relational position within contested, historically layered conceptions of human order. It follows two contrasting frameworks for thinking about sanitation infrastructure: a quest to redesign the... -
Public-Private Partnerships in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Future Management Research
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Bernadine J. Dykes --- Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, USA Carla D. Jones --- College of Business Administration, USAPublic-private partnerships (PPPs) are cooperative arrangements between governments and multinational corporations (MNCs) that are created to finance, construct and manage infrastructure projects. PPPs are a means for governments to gain much-needed private sector investment and expertise for economic development. Historically,... -
Democracy as technopolitical future: delivery and discontent in a government settlement in the South African countryside
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Bernard Dubbeld --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, South AfricaThis paper is concerned with how democracy is understood and experienced in a KwaZulu-Natal municipal administration and one of the settlements it governs. Considering that democracy has a range of popular meanings, and that in South Africa it has been... -
Architecture-by-migrants: the porous infrastructures of Bellville
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Huda Tayob --- The Bartlett School of Architecture, United KingdomThis paper takes as its subject a series of contingent mixed-use urban markets that have been established in Cape Town, South Africa, by migrants, refugees and asylum seekers from various parts of the African continent. It argues that migrant spaces... -
The social and technical conditions enabling innovations in information infrastructures: A case study from public health in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Masoud Hussein Mahundi --- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tanzania Petter Nielsen --- Department of Informatics, Norway Honest Kimaro --- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, TanzaniaOne of the hallmark characteristics of information infrastructures is their gradual evolution to adapt to changes in technologies and requirements from diverse user groups. Evolution manifests through innovations on and within infrastructures as they respond to the changes. These innovations,... -
“There is life in this place”: “DIY formalisation,” buoyant life and citizenship in Marikana informal settlement, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hestia Victor --- Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaTheir shack settlement labelled “too informal” to receive basic service provision, the residents of Marikana informal settlement, in Potchefstroom, North West province, South Africa, planned and executed what was locally referred to as “DIY formalisation” in order to politically appeal... -
Digital divide in Nigeria: The role of regional differentials
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Richard Adeleke --- , NigeriaThis study empirically analyzed the spatial distribution of Internet usage in Nigeria and identified its key determinants using data on the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory from 2016 to 2018. In contrast to previous studies, the approach is... -
Rural infrastructure and production efficiency of food crop farmers: Implication for rural development in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso --- , Nigeria Saidat Adebola Daud --- , Nigeria Luke Okojie --- , Nigeria Abiodun Olusola Omotayo --- , South AfricaThis study investigated the impact of rural infrastructure on production efficiency of food crop rural farmers in Ogun State, Nigeria. A total of 160 farming households from 20 communities in Abeokuta and Ilaro in Ogun State Agricultural Development Programme (OGADEP)... -
uMama wekhaya: local subjectivities, water infrastructures and grounded perceptions of development in Agnes Rest, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Zikhona N. Ngqula --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThis article provides a window into the lives of the residents of Agnes Rest, a rural village in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Using water infrastructures, I explore how two local terms umama wekhaya and abuntu babelungu, express... -
Resources and infrastructure for the delivery of antiretroviral therapy at primary health care facilities in the Free State Province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Ega Janse van Rensburg-Bonthuyzen --- Centre for Health Systems Research and Development, University of the Free State, Michelle Engelbrecht --- Centre for Health Systems Research and Development, University of the Free State, Francois Steyn --- Centre for Health Systems Research and Development, University of the Free State, Nandi Jacobs --- Centre for Health Systems Research and Development, University of the Free State, Helen Schneider --- Centre for Health Policy, University of Witwatersrand, Dingie van Rensburg --- Centre for Health Policy, University of Witwatersrand,There are concerns as to whether South Africa's public health system has sufficient resources, human and otherwise, to ensure universal access to antiretroviral treatment (ART). We report on public sector implementation of the Comprehensive Care Management and Treatment (CCMT) programme... -
Configuring blended education
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Javed Suleri --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Wichard Zwaal --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsThis study investigated the role of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, software, competencies and values in blended education. A 28-item survey was administered to a sample of 102 respondents from several institutes of higher education. Results show that infrastructure... -
Migrant arrival infrastructures and their impact on Zimbabweans’ mobility and integration in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Shingirai Nyakabawu --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaThis study argues that arrival infrastructures play a crucial role in shaping the mobility and integration of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa. By examining the experiences of migrants with access to these infrastructures and those without, the research explores the... -
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... -
Institutional scaffolding: MNEs responses to institutional weakness in contexts of violent conflict
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Emmanuel Ekpenyong --- Nyenrode Business University, The Netherlands Diana Santistevan --- EM Normandie, Laboratoire Métis, France Yasmina Khadir --- Nyenrode Business University, The Netherlands Rob Blomme --- Nyenrode Business University, The NetherlandsMultinational enterprises (MNEs) use a variety of strategic responses to navigate weak institutional contexts. Scholars of MNE responses general focus on relatively stable regions. This paper examines how MNEs navigate institutional weaknesses in contexts of violent conflict by examining the... -
The role of digital inclusive finance in rural revitalization: Mediating effects of infrastructure and education
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Yingying Li --- Kunming University of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China Zhao Rui Feng --- Kunming University of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China Muhammad Dawood --- Yunnan Technology and Business University, People’s Republic of China Xiang Long --- Yunnan Provincial Government Development Research Center, People’s Republic of ChinaTo explore in depth the impact of digital inclusive finance (DIF) on rural revitalization, this study employs the entropy method to measure the level of rural revitalization across 30 provincial-level administrative regions in mainland China from 2014 to 2023. It...
