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Laying Waste to History: Recyclia and Urban Art Traditions in Mozambique African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 David J. Bailey
The present article examines the material and cultural foundations of art made with recycled materials in Mozambique, assessing the continuities (and discontinuities) it exhibits with urban art els...
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Decolonising the Cultural Landscape: Preserving Historical Statues in Tshwane, South Africa African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Mathias Alubafi Fubah, Chammah J. Kaunda, Catherine Ndinda
The post-apartheid South African cultural landscape is characterised by complex and contradictory dynamics. On one hand, it is a space where ongoing contestations, anti-racist struggles, and resist...
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Local Market Institutions and Solid Waste Management in Accra’s Open-Air Markets African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Rosina Sheburah Essien, Manfred Spocter
Solid waste management is a global concern that has been handled in several ways in different parts of the world. In cities of the Global North, measures meant to prevent or minimise solid waste ge...
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Reconceptualising Media Ownership and Shifting Power Relations in an Emerging Digital Media Framework African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 L. Lusike Mukhongo, Job Mwaura, Joyce Omwoha
This article discusses media ownership and shifting power dynamics of critical political economy within a digital media framework. It questions the term media ownership and calls for reconceptualis...
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Colonialism and Customary Land Tenure in Africa: Portuguese Representations and Policies During the 19th and 20th Centuries African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Joana Dias Pereira
Colonial representations concerning ‘indigenous uses and customs’ have been the target of postcolonial critique. However, in the Portuguese case, the impacts of the colonial encounter with African ...
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Malaria and the Subsistence Crisis in Northeast Shewa, Ethiopia, in the 20th Century African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Emishaw Workie Desta
Malaria is one of the top five fatal illnesses in Ethiopia. This study examines the historical ecology of malaria and the subsistence crisis in Northeast Shewa in the 20th century. Findings reveal ...
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Popular Culture and Decolonisation: Themes, Tropes and Trajectories in Nigerian Hip Hop African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Paul Ayodele Onanuga
Contemporarily, the drive for decolonisation following the virulence of the colonial experience on postcolonial societies has gained currency. This has been in the face of pervasive, hegemonic Glob...
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Politics, Jokes and Power in Africa: The View From Stand-Up Comedy African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Izuu Nwankwọ
The history of stand-up comedy in Africa has often been tied to developments in popular culture, language, and performance. In this article, I take a different perspective by identifying the intera...
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Neoliberal Leveraging of the Colonial Imagination: A Global South Reading of Tobacco Ads in Africa African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Paulina Aroch-Fugellie
Africa’s portrayal in the hegemonic imagination has been subjected to critical analysis for many decades. Three features stand out in my analysis. First, I focus on how that hegemonic imagination p...
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Entrenched Coloniality? Colonial-Born Black Women, Hair and Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Janell Le Roux, Toks Dele Oyedemi
In precolonial Africa, hair played an important role in how Africans conceptualised identity, beauty, status, spirituality and cultural pride. With the advent of slavery, colonialism and apartheid,...
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Communal Land and Belonging Among Foreign Former Farmworkers in Zimbabwe African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Patience Chadambuka, Kirk Helliker
In the year 2000, the nation-wide land occupations and the ensuing Fast Track Land Reform Programme displaced tens of thousands of farm labourers from white commercial farms in Zimbabwe. Many of th...
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The High Court Ruling Against Ingonyama Trust: Implications for South Africa’s Land Governance Policy African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Siyabulela Manona, Thembela Kepe
This article discusses the implication of the 2021 CASAC v Ingonyama Trust judgment on South Africa’s land governance policy trajectories. It explores the extent to which there are missing links be...
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The Politics of the Penis: Post-Apartheid Zulu Nationalism and Martial Masculinity, ca 1999 to 2018 African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Liz Timbs
In 1989, Jean-François Bayart published the now foundational text, The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly, introducing the Cameroonian idiom ‘la politique du ventre’ (the politics of the be...
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Sincere Intimacy, Genre and Heterotopology of a Confessional Public African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Damilare Bello
This article makes the case for confessional genre as a contemporary African literary form afforded by the intersection of politics, affect and mediatory conventions. I argue that contemporary Nige...
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Anti-Politics and Free Maternal Health Services in Kilifi County, Kenya African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Stephen Okumu Ombere, Erick Otieno Nyambedha, Tobias Haller, Sonja Merten
ABSTRACT Maternal healthcare is a global agenda. Kenya introduced free maternity services (FMS) in 2013 to allow women to give birth for free in all government public health facilities. The introduction of FMS was timely due to the high maternal mortality rate in Kenya. FMS was also introduced to fulfil the Jubilee Party government’s elections campaign promises. It is, however, not known how primary
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Good for Elections but not for Government: Zongos and the Politics of Exclusion in Ghana African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Isaac Owusu-Mensah, Frank Bitafir Ijon
ABSTRACT Zongo communities – comprising migrants from the northern savannah of Ghana and neighbouring Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Northern Nigeria – are keenly involved in Ghanaian politics, especially leading up to national elections. Representing an important constituency, zongo residents expect their fair share of representation in government to compensate their diverse contributions to political
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Foreigners in the South African Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Sizo Nkala, Sikanyiso Masuku
ABSTRACT This article used a critical discourse approach to understand how linguistic practices in the South African media construct international immigrants of African origin. We created an 88 000-word corpus of online South African news articles on immigrants from 2008 to 2020, which we then uploaded onto a corpus analysis software, Sketch Engine. Through the software, we were able to generate patterns
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Intimate Archives: Interventions on Gender, Sexuality and Intimacies African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Caio Simões de Araújo, Srila Roy
ABSTRACT Across the Global North and South, there have been exciting engagements with the concept of the archive in recent decades. These debates are of both scholarly and political significance, especially when it comes to contemporary struggles for minority rights, belonging, and recognition. The overlapping fields of gender, sexuality, and queer studies have made major contributions to rethinking
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Silent Agents of Nationalist Struggle? Women of Mozambique, Fighting a War Within a War African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Maria Paula Meneses
ABSTRACT What narratives carry women who experienced war in the first person, even if they are not military or even directly part of a nationalist movement? How can they challenge the colonial and nationalist archives, that insist in silencing women’s experiences in their chronicles? In contemporary Mozambique, while the dominant nationalist historiography has acknowledged the role played by the women
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Invisible in Plain Sight? Grandfathers Caring for Orphaned Grandchildren in Rural Malawi African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Mayeso Chinseu Lazaro, Liz Walker, Elsbeth Robson
ABSTRACT Millions of orphans, created by parental deaths due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, live with, and are cared for, by grandparents. Little research has considered how grandparents and, in particular, grandfathers, are caring for orphans. Here, we employ the analytical concept of generative grandfathering to analyse rural grandfathers’ roles in orphan care within communities
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Twentieth-Century South African Women’s Memoir as Historiography African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 SE Duff
ABSTRACT While historians of twentieth-century South Africa have made use of women’s memoirs as an archive, this article argues that these memoirs can also be regarded as historiography. In Ruth First’s 117 Days (1965), Ellen Kuzwayo’s Call Me Woman (1985), and Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life: A South African Autobiography by Emma Mashinini (1989), authors critique and reconstitute narratives
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Surfeit and Silence: Sexual Violence in the Apartheid Archive African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Emily Bridger, Erin Hazan
ABSTRACT Despite contemporary concerns about sexual violence in South Africa, the longer history of violence against women has been insufficiently explored. This article examines the apartheid-era archive on sexual violence, exploring what methodologies can be used and histories written based on its contents. It argues that this archive is marked by a contradictory dichotomy of both excess and absence
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Trans(forming) Archives: Speculative Biographies of Ethiopians Between and Beyond Genders African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Serawit B. Debele
ABSTRACT Through a speculative reading of crime reports from the 1960 and ‘70s, this article grapples with the way in which Ethiopians who refuse to be fixed within gender binaries were introduced to readers as social problems. Considering the violence gender-non-conforming people are subjected to – including by some cisgender members of the queer community itself – I closely study some of these archives
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Abdellah Taïa and an Emergent Queer African Islamic Discourse: Texts, Visibility and Intimate Archives African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Gibson Ncube, Adriaan van Klinken
ABSTRACT This article discusses the work of Abdellah Taïa, the first openly gay Moroccan novelist to write his queerness, as a major contribution to an emergent queer African Islamic discourse. Bringing Taïa’s work into conversation with diverse literary texts from elsewhere on the continent, the article makes two major interventions in the field of queer African studies. First, it centres Islam as
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‘C’était bien à l’Époque’: Work and Leisure among Retrenched Mineworkers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Daniela Waldburger
ABSTRACT This article discusses the significance of work and leisure in (post)colonial Lubumbashi as it emerges from the narratives of ex-workers of the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK) and its successor, Gécamines. In the ex-mineworkers’ narratives, kazi (work) refers to a period when employment stood for prosperity, reflected in material benefits such as housing, food, wages, healthcare provision
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Sex, Lives and Videotape: The Transhistoricity of an Itinerant Visual Archive African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Caio Simões de Araújo
ABSTRACT This article investigates the politics of queer and transgender visual representation and archiving in relation to the short film Sisters (2003) and related photographs, which were produced in Maputo, Mozambique, by the Danish photographer Ditte Haarløv Johnsen in the early 2000s. Understood as a visual archive, this material represents two people, Ingrácia and Antonieta, and their group of
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‘Then … Horror! Horror!': Laughter, Terror and Rebellion in the Unpublished Plays of H.I.E. Dhlomo African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Robin K. Crigler
ABSTRACT The New African poet, playwright, and intellectual H.I.E. Dhlomo is often cited as one of twentieth-century South Africa’s most important cultural figures. In contrast to his celebrated theoretical writings, however, Dhlomo’s actual literary work tends to receive mixed reviews from scholars. This paper seeks to reassess Dhlomo’s much-maligned use of Romantic and Gothic tropes by focusing on
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‘We're now the Walking Dead’: Predatory Policing, Youth Agency and Framing in Nigeria’s #EndSARS Social Activism African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Emmanuel Adeniyi
ABSTRACT The #EndSARS protests swept through Nigeria in October 2020 providing opportunities for Nigerian youths to demonstrate against police violence, poor governance and daunting socio-economic challenges plaguing their country. Drawing on the protesters’ collective sentiments on Twitter, this article interrogates youth agency, ethics of force in policing and collective action of #EndSARS protest
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The Fluidity of Patriarchy: Kinship, Tradition and the Prevention of Gendered Violence in Lugbaraland, Uganda African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Jeroen Lorist, Mercy T. Mbabazi, Eileen Moyer
ABSTRACT In a context of rapid social change in post-conflict West Nile, Uganda, internationally funded non-governmental organisations and the state have joined efforts to reduce gender-based violence (GBV) amongst Lugbara people. That women rarely report GBV is often interpreted as an indicator that such interventions are failing because of flawed design or cultural recalcitrance. Seeking to understand
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Making Ends Meet: Experiences of Older Women Heading Households in Rural Domboshava, Zimbabwe African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Ignatius Gutsa
ABSTRACT Most ethnographies still pay little attention to the subsistence experiences of older adult women heading household in Africa. Drawing from nineteen months of ethnographic research in Domboshava communal lands, this article addresses this gap in knowledge by discussing the position of older women heading households in rural Zimbabwe and the impact of historical and current challenges on their
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Citizenship Attitudes and Social Inequality Among Moroccan University Students African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Hajar Idrissi, Salma Takky, Hind Idrissi
ABSTRACT Drawing on social identity approach, comprising of social identity theory and self-categorisation theory, this article compares the ways in which public and private university students in Morocco approach the controversial relationship between citizenship and identity. By revealing students’ self-identification and the role socio-economic factors have in this process, we seek to gain knowledge
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Rereading Burying SM as a ‘Social Reproduction Text’ African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Ambreena Manji
Published in African Studies (Vol. 81, No. 2, 2022)
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Urbanised Ageing and Strategic Welfare Space in a Namibian Former Township African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Catharina Nord, Janet Ananias
ABSTRACT The number of African older people who live permanently in urban areas is growing. This qualitative ethnographic study explores how older people employ welfare strategies, often involving members of the extended family in mutual care and support. These welfare strategies are emplaced; in this case, in different housing types in a former township in Namibia – Kuisebmond in Walvis Bay. Older
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‘Such a Thing Does Not Have a Name in his Country’: Entanglements of Diaspora and ‘Home’ Homes in the Zimbabwean Short Story of Crisis African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Tendai Mangena, Oliver Nyambi
ABSTRACT Home, crisis and migration have defined the experience and concept of being post-colonial Zimbabwe(an) for the past two decades. Much has been written about the post-coloniality of this entangled experience and about how, in particular, literary fiction re-discourses normative perspectives of the Zimbabwean crisis, the home, the unhomely and trans-national out-migration. Rarely considered
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Big Tsek: Joburg’s Private Surveillance Network and our Public Deficit African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Murray Hunter
INTRODUCTION For the Ruth First Fellowships, of which African Studies is a sponsor, we seek new, younger voices to address a pressing, current issue in the tradition of Ruth First’s activist research. In 2021, we asked applications for the Fellowship to speak to the following key question: What do the radical changes in the public sphere enabled by the power of Big Tech mean for the public sphere?
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Satire, Agency and the Contestation of Patriarchy in Ibibio Women’s Songs African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Idom T. Inyabri, Imeobong J. Offong, Eyo O. Mensah
ABSTRACT The article explores the way Ibibio women in Akwa Ibom State, South-eastern Nigeria use satirical songs to challenge (or endorse) conservative gender ideologies and stereotypes in a bid to access power and agency within their patriarchal society. Drawing on ethnographic qualitative data sourced through participant observations, semi-structured interviews and metalinguistic conversations with
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Staying a ‘Real Man’: Sexual Performance Concerns and Alternative Masculinities Among Young Men in Urban Tanzania African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Simon Mutebi
ABSTRACT Despite anthropology’s interest in masculinity and sexuality, little emphasis has been put on the alternative masculinities of young men experiencing sexual performance concerns. This paper explored different forms of enacting alternative ways of masculinities and how the concepts of ‘field’ and ‘failing bodies’ account for simultaneous enactment of masculinities, depending on the situation
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Nationhood and Ethnic Ideology: Examining Selected Cartoon Paratexts in Kwani? African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Abenea Ndago, Manase Irikidzayi, Rodwell Makombe
ABSTRACT The paper interrogates the role of cartoons in the discursive construction of nationhood and national identity with a specific focus on cartoons published in a Kenyan literary magazine named Kwani? between 2007 and 2008. Kwani? employs cartoons to archive specific events in Kenyan history and articulate a particular view of ‘Kenyanness’. Cartoons act as a disruptive art form that guides the
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Guns, Truncheons and the Virus: An Analysis of Liberation War Ideology in the Covid-19 Pandemic Response in Zimbabwe African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Joseph Pardon Hungwe
ABSTRACT This conceptual article falls within the scope of the politics applied to the Covid-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe. The central argument is that the state authority’s redeployment of liberation war ideology in its efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic tends to marginalise what the state authority refers to pejoratively as ‘ordinary Zimbabweans’. Using critical theory as theoretical framework, I
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Institutional Prosperity: No Money, No Church, No Fellowship in South Africa? Migrant Women’s Relationships in a Context of Lack at Saint Aidan’s Anglican Church African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Clementine Nishimwe
ABSTRACT Monetary relations were embedded in the social practices of the Saint Aidan’s Anglican Church in South Africa. Consequently, when money was needed to employ a priest, additional dimensions of financial relatedness were established. According to Bonnie Hagerty, Judith Lynch-Sauer, Kathleen Patusky and Maria Bouwsema (1993), relatedness is the movement in a circle of connectedness, disconnectedness
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Unsettling the Ranks: 1930s Zulu-Language Writings on African Progress and Unity in The Bantu World African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Maria Suriano, Portia Sifelani
ABSTRACT While much of the extant scholarship on The Bantu World has addressed the English language content, this article shifts the focus to previously unexplored 1930s Zulu-language writings on African advancement and unity. It makes an intervention into the study of African explorations of the possibilities and limits of progress amidst the abiding challenges and paradoxes of colonial modernity
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Constructing the Symbolic Agendas of Political and Structural Transformation with the Discourse of Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Metji Makgoba
ABSTRACT By employing a critical discourse analysis and approaching Black economic empowerment as an institutionalised discursive phenomenon, this article argues that BEE has always maintained a discursive stance against the transformation of historical, structural and power inequities in South Africa. However, there is a presumption in academic circles that BEE aims to transform these inequities that
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Bleeding from One Generation to the Next: The Media and the Constructions of Gukurahundi Postmemories by University Students in Zimbabwe African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-11-09 Mphathisi Ndlovu, Lungile Augustine Tshuma
ABSTRACT In 1983, the Zimbabwean government unleashed terror upon civilians in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces that led to the death of at least 20 000 Ndebele-speaking people. The memories of the Gukurahundi genocide remain heavily guarded by the government that perpetrated these atrocities. Although there is literature on the role of the media in preserving memories of this genocide, little scholarly
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In Praise of Ostentation: Social Class in Lagos and the Aesthetics of Nollywood's Ówàḿbẹ̀ Genres African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-11-12 James Yékú
ABSTRACT New Nollywood’s representation of the social life of Lagos is enacted through Ówàḿbẹ̀ as a cinematic strategy that underscores the contradictions inherent in the politics of pleasure and materialism. A performative display of wealth expressed through the social drama of partying, as well as wild and ostentatious social gatherings emerge to underline this politics of pleasure in the Bling Lagosians
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Mbeki’s ‘I am an African’ Speech: Mobilising Psycho-Political Resources for Political Reconstitution of Post-Apartheid South Africa African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Mohamed Seedat, Shahnaaz Suffla, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
ABSTRACT We offer a critical reading of Thabo Mbeki’s ‘I am an African’ speech to illustrate how he foregrounded humaning, namely onto-epistemological recovery, as a key dimension of psycho-political reconstruction. Mbeki’s speech, delivered on the occasion of the adoption of South Africa’s democratic Constitution, was inherent to the larger quest to (re)imagine South Africa and (South)Africanness
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Catching the Disc: Panopticism, Surveillance and Punishment as a Pedagogical Tool in the Acquisition of Colonial Languages in Post-Colonial Schooling African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Willy K. Rotich
ABSTRACT This article analyses the use of ‘the disc’ – a curious pedagogical post-colonial artifact, intended to discourage native languages – a tool employed in teaching colonial languages in schools in parts of the post-colonial world. The disc assumes many forms depending on where it is employed, but it is usually an object fashioned to be carried, or worn as an article of clothing, or a cap making
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Blaming the Other: Migrancy and Populism in Contemporary South Africa African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Nickolaus Bauer
(2021). Blaming the Other: Migrancy and Populism in Contemporary South Africa. African Studies: Vol. 80, No. 3-4, pp. 478-490.
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‘A Song is Not Just a Song’: Community Mobilisation and Psychosocial Healing in South Africa’s AIDS Crisis African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Gavin Robert Walker
ABSTRACT South Africa has the highest number of HIV infections in the world, with more than five million people receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) therapies (UNAIDS 2019). However, during the early stages of the epidemic, there was no provision for ARVs through the state-run public health system, effectively limiting access to life-saving drugs. In response, the AIDS activist group the Treatment Action
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Traditional Authorities in African Cities: Setting the Scene African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Ntombini Marrengane, Lindsay Sawyer, Daniel Tevera
ABSTRACT This special issue on the role of traditional authorities in African cities highlights critical debates about governance and urban development on a fast-urbanising continent. The six articles in this issue focus on the following: (1) the roles of traditional authorities as custodians of the values of society; (2) the roles of traditional leaders as moral authorities; (3) the modern chieftaincy
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Reading the Place and Role of Endogenous Governance Structures in Modernist Physical Planning: The Case of the Bogosi and the Kgotla in Botswana African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-07-12
ABSTRACT Drawing from the decolonial framework, this article reinterprets the place and role of two endogenous governance structures, namely bogosi and the kgotla, in modernist physical planning in Botswana’s urban villages. Through a historicised account we argue that both structures serve two incongruous roles – firstly, a provision of spaces for mobilisation for the re-inscription of the communal
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A Comparative Analysis of the Influence of Traditional Authority in Urban Development in South Africa and Eswatini African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-07-02 Hloniphile Y. Simelane, Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane
ABSTRACT Scholars have tended to overemphasise the influence of the colonisers. This precludes an analysis of the ability of indigenous populations to resist, reimagine and remake colonial visions of urban life. However, Tom Goodfellow and Stefan Lindemann (2013) have observed a widespread ‘resurgence’ of traditional authorities in Africa since the 1990s – meaning indigenous political structures have
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Traditional Authorities and Spatial Planning in Urban Burkina Faso: Exploring the Roles and Land Value Capture by Moose Chieftaincies in Ouagadougou African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-06-17 Gabin Korbéogo
ABSTRACT In terms of urban spatial planning, decentralisation and urban growth make it necessary to rethink the sources of legitimacy, agreements and conflicts relating to the actors’ strategies for land access in Ouagadougou. By localising the power and land management in local arenas (municipal territories and neighbourhoods), the decentralisation policy – that has promoted the participatory approach
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Local Governance and Traditional Authority in the Kingdom of Eswatini: The Evolving Tinkhundla Regime African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Ntombini Marrengane
ABSTRACT Landmark constitutional and local government reforms have reshaped local governance in the Kingdom of Eswatini, formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, since the promulgation of the first post-independence constitution in 2005. After more than 30 years of suspended constitutional rule under the leadership of the Ngwenyama (the Lion) and King governed by the Swazi system of traditional authority
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Low Season African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Bongani Kona
(2021). Low Season. African Studies: Vol. 80, Traditional Authorities in African Cities, pp. 273-283.
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The 2019 Vilakazi Prize Report African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 The Editors, African Studies
(2021). The 2019 Vilakazi Prize Report. African Studies: Vol. 80, Traditional Authorities in African Cities, pp. 284-285.
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The Causes of Blood Feud in Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Kumilachew Siferaw Anteneh, Gubaye Assaye Alamineh, Mohammed Seid Ali, Abebe Dires Denberu
ABSTRACT As part of customary homicidal practice, blood feuds have persisted for generations in various countries. Due to the different motives for this kind of discord, and due to its divergence and multifaceted consequences, it is very difficult to determine universally accepted causes of blood feuds. Even though it has been a common social practice that has persisted for generations in Ethiopia
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#African Time: Making the Future Legible African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Thomas Widlok, Joachim Knab, Christa van der Wulp
ABSTRACT The notion that Africans lack a sense of future was extensively debated following John Mbiti’s African Religions and Philosophy (1969) and has since entered the scholarly and popular discourse as a fixed topos which we label #African time (‘Europeans have watches, Africans have time’). The most recent references to the topos are found in future vision reports of many African states and non-governmental
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Settling in Motion as Consciousness: Nyasa (Malawian) Informal Transit Across Southern Rhodesia towards South Africa from the 1910s to the 1950s African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Anusa Daimon
ABSTRACT For some labourers who joined the colonial labour migration system, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) was not or did not become their final destination. Instead, they regarded the colony as a transit zone through which they clandestinely moved towards the more lucrative South African mines and farms. Not all succeeded in this quest. Those who did deployed numerous tactics ranging from engaging
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Alfred Nzo: Reassessing a Misunderstood Minister African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Christopher Williams
ABSTRACT Alfred Nzo served as the newly democratic South Africa’s Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1994 and 1999. His tenure was widely criticised. Nzo was described as ineffectual and inert by the media, opposition parties and even by some within his own African National Congress. These criticisms have been unquestioningly absorbed by historians and foreign policy scholars, and now constitute a
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Christianity and Masquerade Practices Among the Youth in Nsukka, Nigeria African Studies (IF 0.679) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Kingsley Ikechukwu Uwaegbute
ABSTRACT This article explores masquerade celebrations among the youth in the Nsukka area. Over a two-year period, youth masquerade celebrations were studied in the towns of Nsukka, Obollo and Umundu, and it was concluded that there were no reservations around participation, despite Christianity maintaining that these are pagan and fetish practices. Many reasons emerged for participation: attachment