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Cancer Patients' Illness Experiences During a Group Intervention
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mariska Venter --- North-West University, Chris Venter --- North-West University, Karel Botha --- North-West University, Munro Strydom --- Stikland Hospital,The study used secondary data analysis to explore cancer patients' illness experiences during a listening group intervention. Participants were 12 patients (age range 22 to 62 years in age; males = 4; females = 8). Data were analysed using qualitative... -
Learning from Narratives: Understanding the Impact of Childhood Abuse on Interpersonal Functioning Later in Life
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Gwen Vogel --- , USA Sharon Gschaider-Kassahun --- , USAThis study used a survey and narrative approach to understand the link between childhood abuse experiences and interpersonal functioning later in life. Participants for the children's survey were 88 children (males = 43; females = 45; age range 5 to... -
Untold Stories of a Group of Black South Africans about the Apartheid Era
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ernst J. van der Merwe --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Chris A. Venter --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Q. Michael Temane --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South AfricaThe aim of this research was to explore the alternative stories of a group of black adults who survived the apartheid years in South Africa. It was surmised that the lives of many of the black adults who experienced the... -
Guidelines for Counsellors Working with People of African Ancestry in a Sport Context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lourens Human --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Taunya Tinsley --- California University of Pennsylvania, PA, Monja Muller --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Sipho Rutsate --- National University of Science and Technology, ZimbabweThe objective this article is to describe five practice guidelines for counsellors working with people of African ancestry in a sport context. The practice guidelines pertain to counsellor training, counsellor perspectives, counsellor services, counsellor ethics and counsellor research. These practice... -
A Group of Black South Africans' Experience of Telling their Untold Stories about the Apartheid Era
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacques Vermeulen --- North-West University, South Africa Chris A. Venter --- North-West University, South Africa Q. Michael Temane --- North-West University, South Africa Ernst J. van der Merwe --- North-West University, South AfricaThe aim of this research was to explore a group of black South Africans' experiences of telling their untold stories of survival about the apartheid era. The expectation was that if they did become more aware of these alternative stories,... -
Career-story Interviewing Using the Three Anecdotes Technique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacobus G. Maree --- University of Pretoria,This article describes the value of using the Three Anecdotes Technique (TAT) during career-story interviewing. The TAT is a technique aimed at eliciting clients' three earliest memories to help counsellors identify clients' preoccupations and thereby support them to deal with... -
Life Designing in 21st Century: Using a New, Strengthened Career Genogram
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Annamaria Di Fabio --- University of Florence, ItalyThis work proposes the use of a new, strengthened career genogram in a life designing paradigm for the 21st century. The article shows the importance of the new paradigm for career construction and self-constructing in life designing interventions. From this... -
Using a Personal Portfolio for Identity Development with an Adolescent
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Suzanne Bester --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Mugsy Quinn --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaThis article reports on the findings of an instrumental case study that was exploratory and descriptive in nature. An open and flexible investigation was conducted with the purpose of gaining insight into the potential value of using a personal portfolio... -
The Effect of Narrative Career Facilitation on the Personal Growth of a Disadvantaged Student—A Case Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacobus G. Maree --- University of Pretoria, Liesel Ebersöhn --- University of Pretoria, Angelique Biagione-Cerone --- University of Pretoria,This article describes the effect of narrative career facilitation on the personal growth of a disadvantaged undergraduate student at a tertiary institution in South Africa. The participant was selected purposively from among a group of undergraduate students at the tertiary... -
Interrogating Narrative Approaches: Career Counselling in South African Schools
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Milton M. Nkoane --- University of Free State, Gregory Alexander --- University of Free State,This article uses an eclectic mix of theoretical underpinnings ranging from constructivism to postmodernism to argue that narrative approaches may be both constructivist and postmodernist. Career counselling is grounded in the narrative approach, meaning that the inquirer, in finding out,... -
Narrative-Based Responses: Discrepant Experiences in Research among the ‡Khomani San
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Willy Nel --- North West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South AfricaIn this article data on narrative-based responses by two female ‡Khomani San community members were used to explore the presence of life design issues contained in that data. Data were analyzed thematically for discrepant experiences (Said, 2001). Findings suggest the... -
Efficacy of a Post-modern Group Career Assessment Intervention of Disadvantaged High School Learners
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Daleen Alexander --- University of the Witwatersrand, Joseph Seabi --- University of the Witwatersrand, David Bischof --- University of the Witwatersrand,The study used a post-modern group assessment procedure to explore career perceptions of 11 Grade 11 learners (6= males; 5= females; mean age = 17 years) from disadvantaged communities. A qualitative process of thematic content analysis was used to analyse... -
Exploring Young Black Persons' Narratives About the Apartheid Past
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cheryl Petersen --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Chris Venter --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Karel Botha --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South AfricaThis study examined intergeneration narratives about the apartheid past through the retelling of 14 young black South Africans aged 16 to 21 (males =6, females =8). A qualitative categorical-content data analysis underpinned by social constructionism, explored these secondary narrative segments... -
‘Bhuti’: Meaning and Masculinities in Xhosa Brothering
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lisa Saville Young --- Rhodes University, South Africa Catherine Jackson --- Rhodes University, South AfricaThe article explores the connections between context, masculinity and the fraternal relationship to understand brotherhood in Xhosa culture. The participant was a Xhosa man (32 years old, with tertiary level education). Data were collected using a semi-structured interview. The data... -
Community as Outsider Witness: Utilising Community Members in the Reconstitution of Problem-Saturated Identities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Trudy Meehan --- Rhodes University, South Africa Kirsten Farquharson --- Rhodes University, South AfricaThis study explored community members' ability to enlist discourses affirming of psychiatric patients' quest for generative identities. The participants were members of the public who attended an exhibition of psychiatric patients' artwork (n = 7, age range 18–55). A Foucauldian... -
Teacher Conceptions and Preferences for Student Discipline Instruments in South African Schools: A Narrative Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ntshangase Sibusiso --- University of South Africa, Naidu Narainsamy --- University of South Africa,This study investigated the teachers' understanding of the context of alternative methods to maintain discipline in South African schools. A narrative approach was use in conducting semi-structured interviews with 10 primary school teachers (females = 80%). Data were analysed using... -
The Use of Hermeneutics in the Criminological Interpretation of Forensic Documents: A Case Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Michelle Ovens --- University of South Africa,This study explored the use of hermeneutics to retrospectively construct a criminological assessment. The data are archival records on a convicted woman (Mrs B: not real name) for the murder of her husband. The data are analyzed using a Ricoeurian... -
Understanding the agency of home-based care volunteers: establishing identity and negotiating space in AIDS-home-based care in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Thirusha Naidu --- Department of Behavioural Medicine, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, South Africa Yvonne Sliep --- School of Psychology, South AfricaIn traditional Zulu communities, caregiving is rooted in compassionate and hardworking personal identity precepts and the traditional identity expectations of women. Home-based-care volunteerism in the community represents the performance of this identity. Data from a series of interviews with 15... -
Experiences and conceptualizations of sexual debut from the narratives of South African men and women in the context of HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Erin Stern --- University of Cape Town, Women's Health Research Unit, South Africa Diane Cooper --- University of Cape Town, Women's Health Research Unit, South AfricaGiven the pivotal role of first sex in the development of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) practices, there is a need for more contextualised and nuanced understandings of young people's early sexual debut experiences. This study used sexual history narratives... -
Life Design Career Counselling with an Abandoned Adolescent: A Case Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacobus G. Maree --- University of the Free State, South Africa Sandra Crous --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaThis article describes the value of life design counselling with an abandoned adolescent female. The participant was selected purposively from among a group of abandoned adolescent females who had expressed a need for career counselling. The life intervention comprised two... -
“Dwelling-in-Travel”: Of Ships, Trains and Planes in M.G. Vassanji's Fiction
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Tina Steiner --- English Department, South AfricaM.G. Vassanji's prominent thematic concerns of movement, diaspora, memory, and the formation of migrant subjectivities can be traced and apprehended by paying close attention to the intersecting paths across the Indian Ocean, across railroad tracks into various East African territories... -
The Intersection of the Self and History in Kenyan Autobiographies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jennifer Muchiri --- Department of Literature, KenyaLife writing has increasingly become a popular genre which calls for sustained interrogation and analysis of the narratives produced. The autobiography is not only the story of the narrating subject but can be read as the history of the society... -
Sexuality, Power and Transgression: Homophobia in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Memory of Departure
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Kimani Kaigai --- Literature Department, KenyaThis paper offers a reading of Zanzibari-born, UK-based writer, Abdulrazak Gurnah’ debut novel, Memory of Departure in order to explore how the novel positions sexual activities that are seen as transgressive and how contestations over these bodily activities imply issues... -
Narrative counselling with a young engineer
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacobus G. Maree --- Faculty of Education, South Africa Erna W. Gerryts --- Faculty of Education, South AfricaThis case study applied a narrative approach to develop the sense of self as a career resource for a young male engineer in his first working year. The participant client attended eight sessions lasting 60 to 90 minutes each over... -
Silence, blame and AIDS conspiracy theories among the Xhosa people in two townships in Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jonas Samuel Sivelä --- African Studies, Department of World Cultures, FinlandConspiratorial expressions about the origins of HIV/AIDS have been recognised as an outcome of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. This article examines the reasons behind AIDS conspiracy theories, which include a reoccurring repertory of themes, motifs and characters. In... -
A voice in control?: narratives of accused witches in Chhattisgarh, India
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Helen M. Macdonald --- Dept. Social Anthropology, South AfricaOne characteristic of violence is the unmaking of language and fracturing of the victim's social world. In recent theorising, narrative is posited to play an important role in restoring the victim to his/her status as a social person. Fiona Ross... -
Glaring invisibility: dressing the body of the female cleaner
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Maheshvari Naidu --- School of Anthropology, Gender and Historical Studies, University of KwaZulu Natal,The paper explores how the uniform of a group of female cleaners appears to be more than an abstract object framed by the practical exegetics of work. The uniform is seen as acting as a material exercise of discretionary and... -
Transformation as social drama: Stories about merging at North West University, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: F.H. Kamsteeg --- VU University Amsterdam, The NetherlandsSouth African higher education is going through a transitional phase of transformation in which existing cultures and identities are strongly contested. The ambiguity and insecurity that come along with such a process are demonstrated in this article through presentation of... -
Performing illness and health: the humanistic value of cancer narratives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Maheshvari Naidu --- School of Social Sciences (Anthropology), University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaCancer is a potent example of a disease that grips and plays out on the body in ways that are both visceral and visual. This paper explores issues of disease and disorder, functioning and malfunctioning in bodies marked by cancer... -
Making meaning in the time of AIDS: longitudinal narratives from the Malawi Journals Project
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Amy Kaler --- Department of Sociology and School of Public Health, Canada Susan Cotts Watkins --- California Center for Population Research, USA Nicole Angotti --- Department of Sociology and Center on Health, Risk and Society, USAThe Malawi Journals Project is one of the longest-running observational field studies in rural sub-Saharan Africa, ongoing since 1999. The journals provide real-time accounts of the unfolding epidemic, from the days when AIDS was considered by rural Malawians to be... -
Teachers’ subjectivities and emotionality in HIV/AIDS teaching
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jaqueline Naidoo --- School of Education, South Africa Peter Rule --- School of Education, South AfricaSchools play a significant role in conveying essential knowledge, skills and attitudes about HIV and AIDS to millions of learners, and are therefore at the forefront of addressing the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This has resulted in a shift in HIV/AIDS research... -
A New Struggle: Active Citizenship in Thembi Ngubane and the Bambanani Women’s Group’s HIV/AIDS Narratives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Savannah Hall --- Department of English, United States of AmericaThis article discusses South African women’s narrative and artistic responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to include Thembi Ngubane’s radio broadcast “Out of hiding, into the world: Thembi’s AIDS Diary” and the Bambanani Women’s Group’s collection Long Life … Positive HIV Stories. Produced... -
Trash, teaching and the city: the “Big Hole Counter Narrative” project and the “Urban Anthropology: Research Methods and Fieldwork” course at Sol Plaatje University
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Carina Truyts --- School of Humanities, South AfricaThis essay reflects on an anthropology course developed at one of the two “post-apartheid” universities in South Africa. The course included collaborating with artists and a local dance/ performance troupe. It culminated in a film by Francois Knoetze (featuring collaborators),... -
A reflection on “Trash, teaching and the city”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ziyanda Majombozi --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaThis is a commentary on Carina Truyts’s photo essay entitled “Trash, Teaching and the City: The ‘Big Hole Counter Narrative’ project and the ‘Urban Anthropology: Research Methods and Fieldwork’ Course at Sol Plaatje University.” -
Women’s spiritually mediated stories about recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder: A brief report
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Liezille Jacobs --- Psychology Department, South AfricaThis study explored women’s lived recovery experiences from alcohol use disorder (AUD) facilitated by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). The women (n = 10; age range 30–62 years; married = 6) completed life story interviews regarding their recovery from AUD with AA participation. Discourse analysis of... -
In Search of Poem-Maps of the Swahili Seas: Three Sea Poems by Haji Gora Haji
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor --- Independent Scholar, KenyaTo what extent can a text borne in memory give texture, perspectives, meaning, dimensionality and sense to a place? Where is the locus of meaning in such a case? Can this locus be mapped? Questions about Swahili navigational poetry (poem-maps)... -
Care, contagion and the good mother: narratives of motherhood, tuberculosis and healing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ziyanda Majombozi --- School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, South AfricaSouth Africa is reported as one of the countries with a high burden of tuberculosis (TB). In response to the epidemic, the country’s national Department of Health attempted to improve access to health care and TB treatment with a variety... -
Storytelling: Career identities of South African high school learners
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sharonrose Sefora --- Institute for Open and Distance Learning, South AfricaThis study explored the career identities of adolescents from their life narratives. Participants were adolescent learners attending a South African high school. They shared their narratives on childhood backgrounds, the sense of self, future aspirations, inspiration of dreams, and culture/beliefs/values... -
Women offenders’ experiences of rehabilitation in a South African correctional centre
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sibulelo Qhogwana --- , South Africa Puleng Segalo --- , South AfricaThis study explored gendered rehabilitation of women in correctional spaces and the systems and structures that recreate inequities in women’s incarceration experiences. Eighteen black women completed in-depth interviews on their offender rehabilitation experiences. Their age ranged from 23 to 69... -
Migrancy as Trauma: Yvonne Owuor's “Weight Of Whispers”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Miriam Maranga-Musonye --- , KenyaDespite winning the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2003, Yvonne Owuor's “Weight of Whispers” has not received much critical attention. Yet this novella has great potential for understanding Eastern Africa as a cultural and political space as well as... -
Negotiating Cultural Transformation in the Performance Practice of Narratives in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Nancy Abigael Masasabi --- , KenyaCulture is never static but continues to change. The narrative is one of the prosaic performances in cultures with an oral tradition. Such prosaic performances are culture bearers and signifiers. Change in societal setup has affected the contexts within which... -
Complex information and accounting standards: Evidence from UK narrative reporting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Ekaete Efretuei --- , United Kingdom Abel Usoro --- , Nigeria Christina Koutra --- , United Arab EmiratesThe application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) has been introduced in many countries to enhance efficiencies in financial markets and improve communication in financial reporting. However, extant studies have suggested that the introduction of IFRS has increased narrative complexity,... -
A Notsie narrative perspective on turnover in the UK financial services industry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: David Sarpong --- , United Kingdom Mairi Maclean --- , United Kingdom Wuraola Hassan --- , United KingdomDrawing on a cultural perspective from the Global South, Notsie narrative, a West African literary folklore, we explore the high churn rate in the UK financial services industry. Viewing the storied accounts of former financial complaint handlers through a Notsie... -
People living with HIV and AIDS in everyday conditions of township life in South Africa: between structural constraint and individual tactics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Frédéric Le Marcis --- Department of Social Anthropology, University of Victor Segalen, Rehana Ebrahim-Vally --- University of the Witwatersrand,The HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa has negatively transformed the lives of many in townships and rural areas. People living with AIDS (PWAs) are the socially weakened, whose means of survival include migrating, enduring gender violence, and they are thus... -
The social construction of identity in HIV/AIDS home-based care volunteers in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Thirusha Naidu [d128e18] Yvonne Sliep Wenche DageidHome-based care volunteer (HBCV) identity and how it is shaped was the main focus of the study. Fifteen HBCVs were interviewed about their work and personal life stories and then interviewed reflectively using a narrative interviewing style. Specific attention was... -
Sexual and reproductive health perceptions and practices as revealed in the sexual history narratives of South African men living in a time of HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Erin Stern --- , , South Africa Asta Rau --- , , South Africa Diane Cooper --- , , South AfricaThe frequent positioning of men's sexual risk-taking as driving the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa has triggered interest in men's sexual and reproductive health (SRH) perceptions, attitudes, and practices. Much research, however, presents men as a homogenous group, and focuses... -
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... -
Sensory marketing and gastronomy: the case of Ecuadorian haute cuisine restaurants
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Klaes Eringa --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Viviana Carolina Proaño Paredes --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsA visit to a haute cuisine restaurant is a feast for all the senses. This study investigates sensory aspects of Ecuadorian haute cuisine which has recently grown in popularity. A key reason for this popularity is the diversity and availability... -
Moving the Margins: Gender Inequality and Homelessness in Amma Darko’s Faceless
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Puleng Segalo --- University of South Africa, South Africa Theresah Patrine Ennin --- University of South Africa, South AfricaMany African women writers have engaged with issues of social justice, development and the need to pay attention to the persistent inequalities that eat away the fabric of many societies. To this day, they continue to be at the coalface... -
Representing the Politics of Memory: Narrative Strategies in Forna’s The Devil that Danced on the Water (2002) and The Memory of Love (2010)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Maryline Chepngetich Kirui --- Moi University, KenyaThis article examines how Aminatta Forna manipulates point of view to represent the politics of memory in her memoir, The Devil that Danced on the Water (2002), and her novel, The Memory of Love (2010). It proceeds from the view... -
Children’s voices through teachers’ stories
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Elisabetta Musi --- Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy Margareth Eilifsen --- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, NorwayWe understand our lives through narratives, and the form of these narratives is appropriate for understanding the actions of others, writes MacIntyre (1981). Meanwhile, narratives and our understanding of them also inform our understanding of our own actions. In this... -
The future of hospitality is storytelling: conceptualising the visitor’s journey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Carissa Baker --- University of Central Florida, USAStorytelling has become an increasingly important aspect of hospitality and tourism that can have several positive impacts on visitors. This article argues for an understanding of narrative structure in the guest experience as well as a reconceptualisation of the visitor’s... -
The interplay of verbal cinematic, balletic and pantomimic manifestations in isiZulu literary narratives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Sicelo Ziphozonke Ntshangase --- Language and Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Lungile Mncwango --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaThere is a dearth of studies that analyse the discourse of isiZulu literature. Most studies focus on the actual story, which is the chain of events and its setting. However, discourse, which is how the story is narrated, is frequently... -
Stigma reduction Interventions for adolescents and young adults living with HIV in Sub-Saharan African countries: The state of the evidence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Dorothy Serwaa Boakye --- University of Education, Ghana Samuel Adjorlolo --- School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, GhanaBackground: HIV-related stigma remains a significant barrier to well-being and access to healthcare for adolescents and young adults living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. Stigma reduction interventions have been developed to address this challenge, but the effectiveness of these interventions... -
E.K.K. Matlala: mongwadi wa ditaodišosengwalo tša mathomo tša Sepedi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Francinah Mokgobo Kanyane --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Mawatle Jerry Mojalefa --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaMaikemišetšo a nyakišišo ye ke go rarolla mathata a thulaganyo ya ditaodišo tša Matlala. Nyakišišo e babaletše go laetša bohlokwa le bokgoni bja Matlala go ngwalweng ga ditaodišosengwalo tša Sepedi, le ka fao a di rulagantšego ka gona go ya... -
Challenging the bottom-of-the-pyramid narrative in Africa: A cross-cultural management perspective on the impact of mobile money
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Terence Jackson --- Middlesex University, UK Ellis L.C. Osabutey --- Northumbria University, UKThe “bottom-of-the-pyramid” (BoP) narrative underpins the introduction of fintech initiatives such as mobile money into Africa’s largely informal economies by multinational enterprises (MNEs) often endorsed by the international development community. This is claimed to enhance financial inclusion and enterprise development... -
Changing midlife tropes: A transcendence into epiphany
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Louisa Niehaus --- University of South Africa, South Africa Maria Papaikonomou --- University of South Africa, South AfricaMidlife is often stereotyped as a time of turbulence, angst and chaos, marked by inappropriate behaviours, broken marriages, infidelity and destructive changes. However, this article aims to challenge these stereotypes and present a different perspective. It argues that midlife is...
