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Cognitive dissonance as an explanation of the genesis, evolution and persistence of Thabo Mbeki's HIV denialism
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Chris KenyonThe ongoing damage that the newer forms of HIV denialism are visiting upon our country is evidenced by the recent firing of Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, the South African Deputy Minister of Health. It is widely believed that the underlying reason for... -
Constraints to public sphere activity in Joubert Park, Johannesburg
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ingrid E. Marais --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaThe link between public sphere and public space has long been established within the literature. Using three aspects of public sphere — plurality, public space and deliberate talk — I argue that the management choices that the City of Johannesburg... -
What is Literary Activism? (Or Who keeps the housekeepers’ house?)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire --- , USAIn August 2016, a four-day workshop brought together emerging and established African curators in Kampala under the label, the Arts Managers and Literary Entrepreneurs Workshop (AMLEW) to share knowledge and skills. In 2017, the name of the workshop changed to... -
‘Just be Easy, Feel the Music’ – Branding in the Musical and Social Life of Kampala’s Hip-hop Scene
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Simran Singh --- , UKSituating branding as socio-cultural performative practice, this article provides critical insight into the hip-hop scene in Kampala, Uganda, with spatial contexts evoked through ethnographic accounts. Focusing on a recording studio in the city, branding mobilises, first, musical life through performative... -
The political economy of bilateral aid: African development and the manufacture of consent
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Peter Blunt --- University of New South Wales, Australia Cecilia Escobar --- Independent Researcher and Consultant, Greece Vlassis Missos --- University of Athens, GreeceThis paper discusses implications for African development arising from our analysis of the political economy of bilateral aid (Blunt, 2023). We argue that the existential threats posed to life on Earth by global warming and nuclear war are a product...