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Re-imagining Dzaleka: The Tumaini Festival and Refugee Visibility
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Catherine Makhumula --- Department of Drama, South AfricaIn this article, I explore the Tumaini Festival at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi as an important site for the re-imagination of place and the refugee. I argue that through the institution of the festival, refugee artists challenge the perception... -
Mozambican adults’ perspectives on human rights: Comparison with French and Venezuelan adults
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Germano Vera Cruz --- University of Picardie Jules Verne, France Ana Gabriela Guédez --- TÉLUQ University of Quebec, Canada Etienne Mullet --- Institute of Advanced Studies (EPHE), FranceThe present study assessed conceptualisations of human rights in Mozambique, a developing country with a history of Portuguese colonisation. Participants were 102 Mozambicans adults (female = 48%; mean age = 29.25 years; SD = 9.04 years). They responded to four... -
Serving Hot Tea: Analyzing Narratives of ‘Abroad’ on Glocal Kenyan Twitter/X Spaces
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Caroline Mose --- The Mawazo Institute, KenyaSocial media reconstitutes the idea of ‘abroad’ as a geographical place, shortens the symbolic distance between borders, and renders the local and global into one almost seamless space. This seamlessness is both metaphorical and symbolic, where happenings on the spatial... -
Buried voices, hidden languages: The (in)visibility of indigenous South African languages in the South African Journal of African Languages (SAJAL) from 1994 to 2023
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Mlamli Diko --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThe South African Journal of African Languages was officially established in 1981 to advance the visibility and intellectualisation of indigenous South African languages as outlined in its aims and scope. Regrettably, greatly entrenched imperialist ideologies obstruct these languages’ comprehensive visibility...