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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... -
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,... -
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... -
Sexuality among the elderly in Dzivaresekwa district of Harare: the challenge of information, education and communication campaigns in support of an HIV/AIDS response
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ignatius Gutsa --- Department of Sociology, ZimbabweThis ethnographic study in Dzivaresekwa district, Harare, Zimbabwe, examines the issue of sexuality among the elderly and their challenges in accessing information, education, and communication (IEC) campaigns in the face of HIV and AIDS. The research depended heavily on collecting... -
Historification and Kenya's Plural Identities: Re-reading Ngugi's Historiography
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jairus Omuteche --- Department of Language and Literature Education, KenyaThis article critiques Ngugi wa Thi ong'o's strategies of constructing nationalism and heroism in some of his creative works. This critical re-reading focuses on Ngugi's choice and projections of characters in relation to historical epoch and setting, evaluating how the... -
Values in children's stories in South Africa: an exploratory discourse analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Anne Fleischack --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Trudy Meehan --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study explored the presentation and construction of the values in story texts for children in South Africa. The data were from five children's stories from a widely-circulated weekly newspaper. The story content was analysed for value-laden themes child readers... -
Historical demography of southern African patellid limpets: congruence of population expansions, but not phylogeography
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: KL Mmonwa --- SANBI Marine Programme, South Africa PR Teske --- Department of Zoology, South Africa CD McQuaid --- Coastal Research Group, Department of Zoology and Entomology, South Africa NP Barker --- Molecular Ecology and Systematics Group, Department of Botany, South AfricaGlobal climatic oscillations have shaped the contemporary genetic structure of marine taxa in different ways. Previous demographic studies have indicated that various intertidal marine species display genetic signatures of demographic expansion that either pre- or postdate the Last Glacial Maximum... -
Essensiële agtergrondkennis van die konsepsuele raamwerk: ’n Opvallende leemte in die Ovkom-leerplan
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: E. Saenger --- Universiteit van Suid-Afrika, -
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... -
The Nairobi Prostitution Histories: Perspectives from Kenyan Novels
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Wafula Yenjela --- Deptartment of Literature, Creative & Performing Arts, KenyaThis article articulates novelists’ constructions of prostitutes’ humanity in the city’s complex spaces that are both enabling and problematic. Through a reading of selected novels in tandem with Kenyan social histories, the article underpins why the city developed into a... -
Narrating Kenyan Silenced Histories through Fiction in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Amos Burkeywo --- , KenyaThe primary focus of this paper is to examine the intersection of history and fiction in Yvonne Owuor’s novel Dust to unearth silenced (hi)stories in colonial and postcolonial Kenya while locating the text within its historical context. By examining intersection... -
World Wars and Trauma: Lake Victoria Basin Women Novelists’ Reflections
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Wafula Yenjela --- , KenyaThis article reads Kenyan novels that catalogue the trauma of the Luo veterans of World War I and II. The focus is on Grace Ogot’s The Promised Land (1966), Margaret Ogola’s The River and the Source (1994), Marjorie Macgoye’s The... -
A photo-identification-based assessment model of southern right whales Eubalaena australis surveyed in South African waters, with a focus on recent low counts of mothers with calves
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: A Brandão --- University of Cape Town, South Africa A Ross-Gillespie --- University of Cape Town, South Africa E Vermeulen --- University of Pretoria, South Africa DS Butterworth --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaPhoto-identification data for southern right whale cow–calf pairs on the South African calving grounds provide one of the longest abundance time-series for any whale population worldwide. Following a very steady increase from a heavily depleted state, surveys since 2015 reflect... -
It’s a journey … Emerging adult women’s experiences of spiritual identity development during postgraduate psychology studies in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Luzelle Naudé --- University of the Free State, South Africa Lara Fick --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThe spiritual identity development of six South African, emerging adult, female, postgraduate psychology students (21 to 22 years old) was explored using reflective writing exercises and individual interviews. Interpretative phenomenological analysis revealed that spiritual identity exploration occurs continuously across the... -
“We are More Than This”: Counterhistories and Female Voices in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Joseph Kwanya --- Rhodes University,In this essay, I examine the potential of the counterfactual framework in retelling obscured or misrepresented stories of women in African wartime narratives. I analyse Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King (2019), which uses the Second Italo-Ethiopian War as a foundation... -
Stereotypical Home Making: Producing Subjects through Spatial Stories in Afronovelas
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Daddy Dibinga Kalamba --- Techniche Universität, Germany Séverine Marguin --- Techniche Universität, GermanyIn recent decades, television series in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire have emerged as influential mass media forms with broad audiences, driven by a dynamic and rapidly evolving industry in these countries. In this paper, we study series belonging to the...