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Communication skills for medical/dental students at the University of Pretoria: Lessons learnt from a two-year study using a forum theatre method
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: C Krüger --- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, JJ Blitz-Lindeque --- Faculty of Health Sciences, GE Pickworth --- Head Education Consultant (Faculty of Health Sciences), Telematic Learning and Education Innovation, AJ Munro --- Head: Department of Drama, Faculty of Humanities, M Lotriet --- Senior Education Consultant (Faculty of Humanities), Telematic Learning and Education Innovation,Background: This study describes the lessons learnt from using a novel method for teaching communication skills to second-year medical/dental students. -
Cancellation of elective surgical procedures in the university teaching hospital center Yalgado Ouedraogo in Burkina Faso: incidence, reasons and proposals for improvement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: Martin Lankoande --- Department of Anaesthesia and Resuscitation, Burkina Faso P Bonkoungou --- Emergency Service, Burkina Faso SIS Traore --- Department of Anaesthesia and Resuscitation, Burkina Faso RAF Kabore --- Department of Anaesthesia and Resuscitation, Burkina Faso E Ouangre --- General and Visceral Surgery, Burkina Faso P Pendeville --- Anaesthesiology Clinic, BelgiumBackground: Cancellation of scheduled surgery leads to operating theatre under-occupancy and is recognised as a major cause of emotional trauma to patients and their families. This study aimed to assess the incidence of elective surgery cancellation in order to make... -
Theatre for Community Development and the “Tyranny” of Advanced Media Technology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Christopher Odhiambo Joseph --- Department of Literature, Theatre and Film Studies, KenyaThis article grapples with the question of the existence of theatre for community development (TfD) in a world that is saturated with advanced media technology. The impulse to interrogate the relationship between theatre for development and a world largely driven... -
Layering mobilities: charting place-making through performance in Johannesburg’s inner-city suburbia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Alex Halligey --- South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, Wits School of Architecture and Planning, South AfricaDrawing together Tim Cresswell’s work on mobilities with Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, this article considers the Johannesburg suburbs of Bertrams, Lorentzville and Judith’s Paarl as produced and reinvented through the mobilities of their inhabitants. How might an artistic performance foreground... -
The role of culture in effective HIV/AIDS communication by theatre in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Chijioke Uwah --- , , South AfricaThe need to effectively communicate HIV/AIDS messages in South Africa, given the high prevalence of the pandemic, cannot be overemphasised. Communication scholars have long emphasised the need to recognise adherence to cultural norms of target communities as catalyst for effective... -
Decolonising access for Performing Arts Training at Makerere University: The Legacy of Rose Mbowa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Patrick Mangeni --- School of Liberal and Performing Arts, Makerere University, UgandaAccess and relevance have been central in the pursuit of a university education responsive to the development agenda of post-colonial Uganda. In Makerere University, the drive involved critical engagement with hegemonic constraints predicated by an interplay of historical drivers, many... -
Towards a New Poetics of Comedic Performance in Kenya Following COVID-19
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Anne Lanoi Keton --- Maasai Mara University, Kenya Denis Waswa Barasa --- Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, KenyaStand-up comedy in Kenya before COVID-19 relied on close proximity between comedians and their audiences. However, COVID-19 disrupted this arrangement and subverted the performance space of ‘traditional theatre.’ This article examines alternative comic spaces embraced by selected Kenyan stand-up comedians... -
What Science Can You Teach Without Language? A Conversation with Timothy Wangusa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Patrick Mangeni --- Makerere University, UgandaThis biographical dialogue with Timothy Wangusa explores the interface between indigenous culture, Christianity and education in Uganda, how this disrupted the indigenous cultural base and practice and continued to inform and impact lives and culture in Uganda. It interrogates the...
