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The Experiences of Rural VhaVenda Women Involved in Polygamous Marriages
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Masefako Andronica Gumani --- University of Venda, Tholene Sodi --- University of Venda,The study explored the experiences of five rural VhaVenda women involved in polygamous marriages aged between twenty seven and sixty four years. The five participants were selected through snowball sampling method from four villages in Vhembe District (Limpopo Province). Data... -
Marriage and Counselling in African Communities: Challenges and Counselling Approaches
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tholene Sodi --- University of the Limpopo, Mary O. Esere --- University of Ilorin, Nigeria Emmy M. Gichinga --- GEM Counseling Services, Kenya Patience Hove --- Zimbabwe Women's Faith Ministries, ZimbabweThe article explores a variety of marital counselling approaches relevant to African settings: indigenous, Western, Christian and Islamic. These approaches to marital counselling are influenced in their use by various social movements, including globalisation, women empowerment, sexual orientation and living... -
Perception of risk of HIV infection in marital and cohabiting partnerships
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Pranitha MaharajThe purpose of this paper is to understand how married and cohabiting men and women define risk and to identify the factors that influence risk perceptions in a setting with a high prevalence of HIV infection. A combination of qualitative... -
Age at sexual debut in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Anne BakilanaIt is important to understand the age at which sexual relations start in designing HIV prevention strategies. Most studies on age of sexual activity of young people provide estimated percentages of those that are sexually active in specific age groups,... -
The children left to stand alone
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Sidsel RoalkvamDrawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in Seke, a semi-rural area outside Harare, Zimbabwe, this paper explores the social mechanism behind the seeming invisibility of children left on their own and how this form of 'invisibility' challenges established notions of childhood, parenthood,... -
Why do some South African ethnic groups have very high HIV rates and others not?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Chris Kenyon --- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Observatory, South Africa Sizwe Zondo --- Department of Psychology, ASCENT Laboratory, Rondebosch, South AfricaThe differences in HIV prevalence between South Africa's racial/ethnic groups (19.9%, 3.2%, and 0.5% among 15–49-year-old blacks, coloureds and whites, respectively) are as big as those between the countries with the highest and lowest levels of HIV prevalence worldwide. These... -
Couples' communication on sexual and relational issues among the Akamba in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ann Neville Miller Lenette Golding Kyalo wa Ngula MaryAnne Wambua Evans Mutua MaryN Kitizo Caroline Teti Nancy Booker Kinya Mwithia DonaldL RubinA large portion of HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa occurs among married couples, yet the majority of research on safer-sex communication has focused on communication between couples in casual relationships. This paper explores how committed Kamba couples in Machakos District,... -
Hearing loss within a marriage: perceptions of the spouse with normal hearing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: NG Govender --- Discipline of Audiology, N Maistry --- Discipline of Audiology, N Soomar --- Discipline of Audiology, J Paken --- Discipline of Audiology,Objective: The objective of the study was to determine the perceptions of a spouse about the influence of his or her partner's hearing loss on their relationship as it may have an impact on aural rehabilitation. -
Surviving change by changing violently: ukuthwala in South Africa's Eastern Cape province
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: W.J. (Jaco) Smit --- Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, The Netherlands Catrien Notermans --- Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, The NetherlandsDuring the last decade a comeback of the apparently extinct marriage practice called ukuthwala has been noted and has found much attention in the South African media. It has been raised as a particular concern that, apparently, ukuthwala increasingly entails... -
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... -
“Slow marriage,” “fast bogadi”: change and continuity in marriage in Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jacqueline Solway --- Department of International Development Studies and Department of Anthropology, CanadaClassic work on Tswana marriage emphasises that it is a process of becoming, involving a series of rituals and prestations characterised by a long period of socially productive ambiguity in which the status of the union, the spouses, their children... -
Is it enough to talk of marriage as a process? Legitimate co-habitation in Umlazi, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Mark Hunter --- Human Geography, CanadaSome 65 years ago Radcliffe-Brown wrote that marriage is “not an event or a condition but a developing process.” This position became modified two decades later when John Comaroff and Simon Roberts demonstrated the ambiguity of the process of marriage... -
Traditions of kinship, marriage and bridewealth in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Adam Kuper --- Anthropology, United KingdomIn the pre-colonial period, and in most parts of Southern Africa throughout the nineteenth and well into the twentieth century, marriage, the family and the homestead were embedded in economic, political and religious institutions. The household was the hub of... -
The materiality of marriage payments
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hylton White --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaIt is generally agreed that rates of marriage are declining in Southern Africa. It is also clear that for people who are wealthy enough to marry, the long-standing constitution of marriage as process is increasingly replaced by a making of... -
Marriage as an end or the end of marriage? Change and continuity in Southern African marriages
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Julia Pauli --- Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Germany Rijk van Dijk --- African Studies Centre, The NetherlandsMarriage used to be widespread and common throughout Southern Africa. However, over the past decades marriage rates have substantially declined in the whole region. Marriage has changed from a universal rite of passage into a conspicuous celebration of middle class... -
Not marrying in South Africa: consumption, aspiration and the new middle class
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Deborah James --- Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, Great BritainThis article explores how marriage, or its absence, features in relation to the aspirations and obligations of members of South Africa’s new black middle class. In a context where the state and credit have played key roles in the newly... -
The struggle for marriage: elite and non-elite weddings in rural Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Julia Pauli --- Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany Francois Dawids --- Master of the Post Office, NamibiaNamibian weddings have become lavish and expensive rituals. Recent studies have discussed how these marriage transformations are linked to late capitalism and the spread of modernisation ideologies. Much of this research concludes that marriage has become a middle class institution,... -
Marriage, kinship and childcare in the aftermath of AIDS: rethinking “orphanhood” in the South African lowveld
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Isak Niehaus --- Anthropology Division, United KingdomIn this article I consider the significance of marriage from the vantage point of children’s affiliation to domestic units during the era of South Africa’s AIDS pandemic. Drawing on multi-temporal fieldwork in Impalahoek, a village in the Bushbuckridge municipality of... -
Rights, violence and the marriage of confusion: re-emerging bride abduction in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: W.J. (Jaco) Smit --- Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, The NetherlandsDuring the last few decades, South(ern) Africa has witnessed a steady decline in marriage. While the paths people take to get married are diversifying due to various challenges — mainly a changing economy and high bride wealth demands — certain... -
Love matters: exploring conceptions of love in Rwanda and Swaziland and relationship to HIV and intimate partner violence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Allison Ruark --- Department of Medicine, USA Erin Stern --- Department of Global Health and Development, UK Thandeka Dlamini-Simelane --- Institute for Health Measurement, Swaziland Marie Fidele Kakuze --- Independent Consultant, SwazilandHealth risks such as intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV infection often occur within intimate sexual relationships, yet the study of love and intimacy is largely absent from health research on African populations. This study explores how women and men... -
Underage drinking as a predictor of alcohol use disorder among African Americans
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Euchay Ngozi Horsman --- School of Counseling, Human Performance, and Rehabilitation, College of Education and Health Professions, USAThis study aimed to examine the effect of underage drinking (UD) on alcohol use disorder (AUD) among African Americans. Data from the 2010 National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) (N = 19 240; age range 25–75 years) were... -
Demography of remarriage and fertility desire among women receiving antiretroviral therapy in South West Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Joshua O Akinyemi --- , Nigeria Rotimi F Afolabi --- , Nigeria Olutosin A Awolude --- , Nigeria E Afolabi Bamgboye --- , NigeriaBackground: In view of sociocultural norms surrounding marriage and childbearing in South West Nigeria, fertility desire may be stronger among remarried women living with HIV. This article describes the characteristics of remarriage and its relationship to fertility desire. -
Effectiveness of the Sista2Sista programme in improving HIV and other sexual and reproductive health outcomes among vulnerable adolescent girls and young women in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Gemma Oberth --- , South Africa Tamisayi Chinhengo --- , South Africa Tendayi Katsande --- , Zimbabwe Rudo Mhonde --- , Zimbabwe Dagmar Hanisch --- , Zimbabwe Pennelope Kasere --- , Zimbabwe Beverley Chihumela --- , Zimbabwe Bernard Madzima --- , ZimbabweBackground: In Zimbabwe, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) experience high rates of HIV and other sexual and reproductive health challenges. In 2013, the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care partnered with the United Nations Population Fund to implement... -
“Becoming a somebody”: mobility, patronage and reconfiguration of transactional sexual relationships in postcolonial Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rufaro H. Mushonga --- , Zimbabwe Vupenyu Dzingirai --- , ZimbabweThe article explores the many ways in which Zimbabwean women married to Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Harare reconfigure transactional sexual relationships to further their own ends. Drawing on postcolonial feminism and based on a qualitative ethnographic inquiry, the article highlights... -
‘I thought if I marry the prophet I would not die’: The significance of religious affiliation on marriage, HIV testing, and reproductive health practices among young married women in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Denise Dion Hallfors --- , USA Bonita J. Iritani --- , USA Lei Zhang --- , USA Shane Hartman --- , USA Winnie K. Luseno --- , USA Elias Mpofu --- , , Australia Simbarashe Rusakaniko --- , , ZimbabweThis study examines the association between religious affiliation and reasons for marriage, perceived church attitudes, and reproductive health-seeking behaviors, including HIV testing, among young women in eastern rural Zimbabwe. The sample comprised women (N = 35) who had married by 2012 while... -
Crossing the Boundary: An Investigation of Transnationalism, Transculturalism and Transracial Marriages in Jane Katjavivi’s Undisciplined Heart and Trudie Amulungu’s Taming My Elephant
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Selma K. Shiyoka --- University of Namibia, Namibia Nelson Mlambo --- University of Namibia, NamibiaThe focus of this paper is to explore the literary portrayal of transnational identities, transculturalism and transracial marriages as presented by two expatriate female writers who have made their niche in the postcolonial Namibian autobiographical (sub) genre, namely, Taming My...
