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Why Africa Journal of Management and Why Now?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Stella M. Nkomo --- Department of Human Resource Management, South Africa David Zoogah --- Earl Graves School of Business, USA Moses Acquaah --- Department of Management, Bryan School of Business and Economics, USAIn this article, we provide the background as well as the rationale for the decision to establish the Africa Journal of Management. We begin by telling the story of the genesis of AFAM and its aspirational mission. Next, we discuss... -
Management Studies from Africa: A Cross-cultural Critique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Terence Jackson --- Middlesex University Business School, UKThis article presents a critical cross-cultural appraisal of management scholarship concerning Africa, considering differences between scholarship on Africa, scholarship for Africa, and scholarship from Africa. It looks at how Africa has been conceptualized and portrayed in the management literature from... -
A conversation: subaltern studies in South Asia and post-colonial anthropology in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Helen Macdonald --- Department of Social Anthropology,Subaltern Studies emerged at the end of the 1970s among a collective of English and Indian historians of South Asia, and developed into a creative and malleable reworking of knowledge(s). Importantly. the subalternists contributed to an interdisciplinarity that displayed a... -
‘We can be united, but we are different’: discourses of difference in postcolonial Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Michael Akuupa --- Dept of Anthropology and Sociology,Social scientists who have written about the dynamics of festival rituals have analysed such practices variously as celebrations of commonality, as the enhancement of social cohesion, or as expressions of nostalgia. Festivals have also been studied as spaces where information... -
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... -
Casts, bones and DNA: interrogating the relationship between science and postcolonial indigeneity in contemporary South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Katharina Schramm --- Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, GermanyThis paper discusses the articulation and complex enactment of postcolonial indigeneity, commonly referred to as Khoesan revivalism in contemporary South Africa. Through a close examination of the “substances of indigeneity,” i.e. body casts, human remains and DNA, it interrogates the... -
Rerouting the Postcolonial from an East African Perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Alex Nelungo Wanjala --- Department of Literature & Sub-Department of French, KenyaSome postcolonial critics have recently called for a rerouting of the postcolonial study of literature due to what they perceive as increased globalization that affects the identity and worldview of the subject. Various critics have also called for attention to... -
Rapping with a Forked Tongue, Code-switching and the Tribalized Kenya of the end of the Twentieth Century in ‘Otongolo Tyme’ by Poxi Presha
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Tom Michael Mboya --- Department of Literature, Theatre and Film Studies, KenyaIn this article politics is argued to be an important driver of the practice of codeswitching in the kinds of texts — like popular music texts — that are produced for extensive circulation within the African post-colony. The argument is... -
Okonkwo in Harare? Reading the Poem ‘Déjà vu’ by Nhamo Mhiripiri through an Intertextual Lens
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Barbra Chiyedza Manyarara --- Curriculum & Arts Education Department (Senior Lecturer), Faculty of Education, South AfricaNew generations of poets such as Nhamo Mhiripiri offer works that question the contemporary being of Africa by exploring the continuities and disruptions between her pre-colonial past and her postcolonial present. Subtly nuanced, such poetry is often concerned with issues... -
Trauma, History and Desire in the Indian Ocean Imaginary. A Reading of M.G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets as Material Culture
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Esther Pujolràs-Noguer --- , SpainWe can determine small truths about what happened in the past, but they coalesce into a large falsehood Jules David Prown ‘Trauma, History and Desire in the Indian Ocean Imaginary. A Reading of M.G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets as... -
Modernisation from the Shadows: Conspiracy, Monasticism and Techno-Utopia in the Amharic novel Dertogada
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Sara Marzagora --- , UK Tom Boylston --- , UKThe Amharic novel Dertogada (2009) was a smash hit in Ethiopia, launching Yismake Worku’s career as one of the most popular Amharic writers of the last decade. This paper explores Dertogada’s huge cultural influence by tracing its unique synthesis between... -
Surviving the Genocide: The Singularity of Suffering in Yvonne Owuor's “Weight of Whispers”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Edgar Fred Nabutanyi --- , UgandaAlthough Theodor Adorno famously declared in 1983 that to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric, profound acts of horror have inspired many literary masterpieces. The 1994 Rwandan genocide is no exception, having motivated some of Africa’s literary gems. While... -
Policing the (post)colonial body: The Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Amber Reed --- , United States of America Ziyanda Xaso --- , South AfricaIn March 2020, South Africa enacted one of the world’s most severe lockdowns to combat the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Whilst this action received international praise, its implementation by the armed security forces in many ways mirrored colonial and apartheid-era controls on... -
Performing multispecies studies in Southern Africa: historical legacies, marginalised subjects, reflexive positionalities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Paula Alexiou --- University of Cologne, Germany Julia Brekl --- University of Cologne, Germany Emilie Köhler --- University of Cologne, Germany Wisse van Engelen --- University of Cologne, GermanyMultispecies studies are known for tackling human exceptionalism. Whilst the field has seen a remarkable increase in popularity amongst scholars in the humanities and social sciences, critiques argue that it neglects inequalities and consequential differences amongst humans and between humans... -
‘Back Home in the States’: The African’s Quest for Home in Postcolonial Africa in Chains of Junkdom by Okiya Omtata Okoiti
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Tom Michael Mboya --- Moi University,This paper is a reading of the Kenyan psychological drama, Chains of Junkdom by Okiya Omtata Okoiti as an artistic contribution to a long-running debate on the definition of home in postcolonial Kenya. The two major positions in the debate... -
The legacy of the Maxim machine gun in postcolonial Africa: Implications for governance and management scholarship
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Moses N. Kiggundu --- , CanadaThe essay draws on aspects of British colonial history to throw light on Africa’s postcolonial state and society. Under the leadership of Captain Lugard, drawing from the principles of the dual mandate and indirect rule, colonialists employed the then most... -
Unveiling Kianda: a multifaceted symbol in Luanda, Angola
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kyeri Kim --- Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Global Campus, Republic of KoreaThis article explores how Kianda, an (un)official urban symbol of Luanda, the capital of Angola, is rooted in the cosmological worldview of residents of Luanda’s Cabo Island (Ilha do Cabo, also known as Ilha de Luanda) and how it has... -
Ukuphithikeza nokugxobha ingcingane yeelwimi zaseAfrika njengeelwimi ezenziwa ubunkcubabuchopho
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Simthembile Xeketwana --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaIilwimi zaseAfrika kudala zaba nobungqondi kwaye obo bungqondi kumele bugqobhozele kwiindlela ezi lwimi ezisetyenziswa ngayo, ncakasana kumaziko emfundo ephakamileyo. Ngoko ke, iilwimi zaseAfrika aziqalanga ukuba nobungqondi emva kowe1994, okanye ukufika kwamamishinari kweli lo Mzantsi Afrika, neAfrika iphela. Ngokukhokelwa yinkcazobungcali yasemva...