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Treading a Delicate Tightrope: A principal balancing between education and political change during turbulent times
Item type: Books • Author: Mike BurtonMike Burton’s Tightrope is a gripping, personal account that transports the reader back to the liberation struggle of the 1980s and the educational issues that informed policy in the nascent democracy. The book will be of particular interest to those involved in education at the time as well anybody who observed or was engaged during that turbulent period of change. -
Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies
Item type: JournalsEastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (EALCS) is a new international peer-reviewed journal which offers a distinctive, integrated forum for scholarship on the literature, culture and arts of the Eastern Africa region and their widespread influence. -
Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology
Item type: JournalsA scientific journal published by NISC in association with BirdLife South Africa. Ostrich is an international journal that publishes papers in the general field of ornithology in Africa and its islands. -
Quaestiones Mathematicae
Item type: JournalsDevoted to research articles from a wide range of mathematical areas. Longer expository papers of exceptional quality are also considered. Published in English, the journal receives contributions from authors around the globe and serves as an important reference source for anyone interested in mathematics. -
Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Item type: JournalsArticles on a wide range of linguistic topics and acts as a forum for research into ALL the languages of southern Africa, including English and Afrikaans. -
Africa-Wide Information
Item type: DatabasesAfrica-Wide provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary information which documents research and publications by Africans and about Africa. Africa-Wide covers close to 4 million news articles, scholarly publications articles, books, reports, theses, citations, and grey literature. Records include article abstracts and some full text with keyword indexing to enhance relevant retrieval. The coverage is comprehensive from the 18th century to current and dates back to the 16th century. Africa-Wide Information is an essential resource for those with an interest in African research and publications and for those doing research in an African context, no matter the subject field. -
Fish, Fisheries and Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide (FFAB)
Item type: DatabasesFFAB offers comprehensive information for researchers specialising in ichthyology, fisheries, aquaculture, and aquatic and marine biology. Dating back to 1971, and earlier, this database collection has 1.5 million records. Prominent themes covered include culture and propagation of fish and all aquaculture species, genetics and behaviour, fish taxonomy, natural history, ecology, parasites, diseases, habitat management, fish and invertebrate processing and marketing, fisheries and marine mammal research, and management. The Aquatic Biology Collection (ABC) database covers mammals, birds, plants and invertebrates. -
Waters and Oceans Worldwide (WOW)
Item type: DatabasesWaters and Oceans Worldwide (WOW) offers comprehensive information for researchers specialising in all aspects of water research. The database collection has two million records and wide international coverage. Prominent themes covered include water supply, water treatment, water quality, sanitation, health, irrigation, drainage, groundwater and hydrology, habitat and ecology management, environmental impacts, oceanography, marine geology, pollution, coastal and estuarine studies, climatology and climate change, hydroelectric power, dam construction and related civil and water engineering issues, desalination, mining, and much more. -
Doctors for Tomorrow: Family Medicine in South Africa
Item type: Books • Author: Jannie Hugo & Lucie AllanThe changes taking place within family medicine in South Africa today affect the provision of health care in both public and private sectors. -
Geomorphology of the Eastern Cape: South Africa
Item type: Books • Author: Edited by Colin A LewisInvaluable to anyone interested in the development of landscapes and landforms in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. This Revised version includes updated information on over 40 new figures as well as more recent photos added since it was first published in 1996. -
Groupers of the World: A Field and Market Guide
Item type: Books • Author: Matthew T Craig • Yvonne J Sadovy de Mitcheson • Phillip C HeemstraGroupers of the World is a detailed but easy-to-use guide to all of the more than 160 recognised species of these mostly large, colourful, tropical reef fishes, also known as rockcod. Groupers of the World: a Field and Market Guide is an indispensable publication for fisheries scientists and managers, as well as for divers, anglers and those with an interest in reef fishes in general. -
Responsible Journalism by Example
Item type: Books • Author: Samuel NgomaResponsible Journalism by Example has stories on topics ranging from the liberation struggle in southern Africa at its height and multi-party politics in Zambia to in-depth analyses, community news, media regulation, profiles of luminaries and oddities of international stories such as a fresh perspective on the thorny issue of the Golan Heights in Israel from an African journalist’s viewpoint. -
South African Journal of Philosophy
Item type: JournalsThe aim of the South African Journal of Philosophy (SAJP) is to publish original scholarly contributions in all areas of philosophy at an international standard. -
Faithful to the Vision: A History of the Grahamstown Teachers’ Training College 1894 –1975
Item type: Books • Author: Eric KellyA child’s primary education is of vital importance. It requires well-trained teachers with a professional approach to their work. Faithful to the Vision is the story of a teachers’ training college which set about preparing teachers of that very calibre. It is the history of the Grahamstown Teachers’ Training College. -
Causatives in Kwa: An intragenetic typology
Item type: Books • Author: Reginald Akuoko DuahIn Causatives in Kwa: An Intragenetic Typology Reginald Akuoko Duah presents a rich description and analysis of the formal types of causative expressions found in the different Kwa languages. Using a variety of language-internal tests, the book brings to light the features which make these languages similar in certain respects and different others. The book represents a fresh approach to the study of serial verb constructions (SVCs) and demonstrates that cause-effect serial verb constructions are a type of causative constructions and that analytic causatives lie outside realm of serial verb constructions. -
‘I Beg to Tell’: Everyday agency in colonial Lagos, 1940–1960
Item type: Books • Author: Tunde Decker‘I beg to tell’ – Everyday agency in colonial Lagos, 1940–1960 foregrounds everyday life as a major component of colonial Lagos history. It is an interdisciplinary study of a segment of neglected historical actors in colonial Nigeria with significant implications for Nigerian and African historiography. It draws insights from anthropology, sociology, social psychology and textual studies, and aims at enriching the research of academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students working on different aspects of African Studies. -
Swimming on the Edge of Extinction: The Perilous State of the Indigenous Freshwater Fish of the Western Cape
Item type: Books • Author: Craig Garrow, Sean MarrThis book covers all currently recognized freshwater fish species that are indigenous to the Western Cape. Each species account is illustrated with exceptional photographs of fish in their natural environment together with descriptions of the distribution, biology, status and threats to the species. -
Ethics: Giving a Damn Making a Difference
Item type: Books • Author: Cynthia SchoemanNext time someone tells you that ethics doesn’t makes good business sense or that competitive pressure doesn’t allow for an ethical approach, tell them to think again. Not only in South Africa but in companies and institutions across the world, misconduct of all kinds is increasingly revealed to be a destroyer of profits and reputations. -
South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape
Item type: Books • Author: Edited by Laurence WrightSouth Africa's Education Crisis casts light on the context and causes of the education crisis in the Eastern Cape, as well as drawing together original research, commentary and analysis in language education topics by teacher educators from Rhodes University's Institute for the Study of English in Africa and colleagues elsewhere, all of whom have been involved in the in-service education and development of teachers for many years. Although the focus is on the Eastern Cape, many of the issues considered are common to education in rural areas throughout southern Africa and this book will prove useful to educational researchers, education managers, teachers and teacher educators elsewhere in South Africa and beyond. -
Grahamstown Cathedral: A Guide and Short History
Item type: Books • Author: Charles Gould edited by Jeanette EveA facsimile reprint of Grahamstown Cathedral: A Guide and Short History by Charles Gould (1924) with updated information and a new introduction by Jeanette Eve. -
Nomina Africana: The Journal of African Onomastics
Item type: JournalsNomina Africana is the journal of the Names Society of Southern Africa and publishes original peer reviewed research that makes a contribution to the field of onomastics on the continent. -
SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS
Item type: JournalsJournal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS (SAHARA-J) publishes open access research on social factors relating to HIV/AIDS from Sub-Saharan Africa and other developing countries. -
Nation, power and dissidence in third generation Nigerian poetry in English
Item type: Books • Author: Sule E. EgyaNation, Power and Dissidence in Third Generation Nigerian Poetry in English is a theoretical and analytical survey of the poetry that emerged in Nigeria in the 1980s. Hurt into poetry, the poets collectively raise aesthetics of resistance that dramatises the nationalist imagination bridging the gap between poetry and politics in Nigeria. The emerging generation of poetic voices raises an outcry against the repressive military regimes of the 1980s and 1990s. Ingrained in the tradition of protest literature in Africa, the third-generation poetry is presented here as part of the cultural struggles that unseat military despotism and envisage a democratic society. -
Claude E. Ake - the making of an organic intellectual
Item type: Books • Author: Jeremiah O. ArowosegbeClaude E. Ake, radical African political philosopher of the first four decades of the postcolonial era, stands out as a progressive social force whose writings continue to have appeal and relevance long after his untimely death in 1996. In examining Ake’s intellectual works, Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe sets out the framework of his theoretical orientations in the context of his life, and reveals him as one of the most fertile and influential voices within the social sciences community in Africa. -
ISEA 1964-2014: A South African research institute serving people
Item type: Books • Author: Edited by Monica HendricksISEA 1964-2014 is more than the story of the Institute for the Study of English in Africa, recording, as it does, the history of South Africa's longest-established and most influential research institute dedicated to the study and teaching of language. -
White Narratives: The depiction of post-2000 land invasions in Zimbabwe
Item type: Books • Author: Irikidzayi ManaseThe post-2000 period in Zimbabwe saw the launch of a fast track land reform programme, resulting in a flurry of accounts from white Zimbabweans about how they saw the land, the land invasions, and their own sense of belonging and identity. In White Narratives, Irikidzayi Manase engages with this fervent output of texts seeking definition of experiences, conflicts and ambiguities arising from the land invasions. He takes us through his study of texts selected from the memoirs, fictional and non-fictional accounts of white farmers and other displaced white narrators on the post-2000 Zimbabwe land invasions, scrutinising divisions between white and black in terms of both current and historical ideology, society and spatial relationships. He examines how the revisionist politics of the Zimbabwean government influenced the politics of identities and race categories during the period 2000–2008, and posits some solutions to the contestations for land and belonging. -
Consensus as Democracy in Africa
Item type: Books • Author: Bernard MatolinoSome philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions built into consensus as a social and political theory. -
Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel
Item type: Books • Author: Romanus AbohLanguage and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention to how forms of identities – ethnic, cultural, national and gender – are constructed through the use of language in select novels of Adichie, Atta and Betiang. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book draws analytical insights from critical discourse analysis, literary discourse analysis and socio-ethno-linguistic analysis. -
Unshared Identity: Posthumous paternity in a contemporary Yoruba community
Item type: Books • Author: Babajide OlolajuloUnshared Identity employs the practice of posthumous paternity in Ilupeju-Ekiti, a Yoruba-speaking community in Nigeria, to explore endogenous African ways of being and meaning-making that are believed to have declined when the Yoruba and other groups constituting present-day Nigeria were preyed upon by European colonialism and Westernisation. However, the author’s fieldwork for this book uncovered evidence of the resilience of Africa’s endogenous epistemologies. -
Indigenous Shona Philosophy: Reconstructive Insights
Item type: Books • Author: Pascah MungwiniSome of the most provocative questions confronting philosophers in Africa are grounded in the historical memory of conquest and the peripheralisation the continent. Mungwini offers a critical reconstruction of indigenous Shona philosophy as an aspect of the African intellectual heritage held hostage by colonial modernity. In this comprehensive work, he lays bare the thoughts of the Shona, who are credited with the founding of the ancient Great Zimbabwe civilisation. Retracing the epistemic thread in the fabric of Shona culture and philosophy, he explores the assumptions that inform their thinking. The exchange of such knowledge is fundamental to the future of humanity. -
Boxing is no Cakewalk! Azumah ‘Ring Professor’ Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing
Item type: Books • Author: De-Valera NYM BotchwayBoxing is no cakewalk! Azumah ‘Ring Professor’ Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing explores the social history of boxing in Ghana and its interesting nexus with the biography of Azumah Nelson, unquestionably Ghana’s most celebrated boxer. The book posits that sports constitute more than mere games that people play. They are endowed with enormous political, cultural, economic and social power that can influence people’s lives in various ways. -
Hollywood and Africa: Recycling the ‘Dark Continent’ Myth, 1908–2020
Item type: Books • Author: Okaka Opio DokotumHollywood and Africa - recycling the ‘Dark Continent’ myth from 1908–2020 is a study of over a century of stereotypical Hollywood film productions about Africa. It argues that the myth of the Dark Continent continues to influence Western cultural productions about Africa as a cognitive-based system of knowledge, especially in history, literature and film. -
Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media
Item type: Books • Author: Dina LigagaWomen, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media explores familiar constructions of femininity to assess ways in which it circulates in discourse, both stereotypically and otherwise. It assesses the meanings of such discourses and their articulations in various public platforms in Kenya. -
Wrecking Ball: Why permanent technological unemployment, a predictable pandemic and other wicked problems will end South Africa’s experiment in inclusive democracy
Item type: Books • Author: Stu WoolmanWrecking Ball explores, in an unprecedented manner, a decalogue of wicked problems that confronts humanity: Nuclear proliferation, climate change, pandemics, permanent technological unemployment, Orwellian public and private surveillance, social media that distorts reality, cyberwarfare, the fragmentation of democracies, the inability of nations to cabin private power, the failure of multinational institutions to promote collaboration and the deepening of autocratic rule in countries that have never known anything but extractive institutions. Collectively, or even severally, these wicked problems constitute crises that could end civilisation. -
The Selfless Constitution: Experimentalism and Flourishing as Foundations of South Africa’s Basic Law
Item type: Books • Author: Stu WoolmanDo you possess ‘freedom’—the will to do as you choose—as an individual, as a participant in social affairs or as a citizen in the political realm? Well, no. Not really. At least not as most of us understand a term loaded down with metaphysical baggage. Don’t worry. You’ve got something better: a neurological system capable of carrying out the most complex analytical and computational tasks; membership in innumerable communities that provide you with huge stores of knowledge and wisdom; and a politico-constitutional order that ought to provide the material and the immaterial conditions that will enable you to pursue a life worth valuing. Drop the simplistic folk-psychology of unfettered freedom, whilst holding on to intentionality, and you might be inclined to adopt a set of social practices and political arrangements that enhance the chances that you and your compatriots will flourish. -
Conversations with Memorable Personalities
Item type: Books • Author: Amos MalupengaSet against a background of the story of Lusaka’s daily newspaper, The Post, where the author worked as one of the founding journalists and ultimately managing editor, Conversations with Memorable Personalities is a collection of 45 interviews with prominent individuals who have featured in the politics and daily life of Zambia over the past several decades. -
Beyond Monuments: The politics and poetics of memory in post-war northern Uganda
Item type: Books • Author: Laury L. OcenBeyond Monuments: The politics and poetics of memory in post-war northern Uganda explores themes of war and peace, displacement and return, and remembering and forgetting, depicted as experiences of survivors of mass violence in the northern Uganda civil wars between 1987 and 2006. Presented as dichotomies marking key transitional moments negotiated by NGOs, governments, and post-war communities in northern Uganda, the analysis of these themes emphasises how ordinary survivors of war make claims – through oral performances, memoirs, reminiscences, and place and personal names – that foreground memories threatened with amnesia, resulting from state and NGO driven commemorations. -
Music and urban youth identities: A study of ghetto youth in contemporary culture and politics in Zimbabwe
Item type: Books • Author: Doreen Rumbidzai TivengaWhen the Zimbabwean government imposed the 75% local content policy in 2001, young people began dominating the music scene, marking a dramatic turn in the history of Zimbabwean music and entertainment. Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga’s Music and Urban Youth Identities: A study of ghetto youth identities in contemporary culture and politics in Zimbabwe traces how the stipulation of the local content quota coincided with the post-2000 political and economic crises in Zimbabwe that pushed youth, especially those from low-income backgrounds – the ‘ghetto youth’ – to the margins of the country’s economy. -
Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry since 1947
Item type: Books • Author: Sibanengi NcubeThe book uses the case of Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry to situate white settler agriculture in the broader context of post-Second World War British imperial policy and, to an extent, American foreign economic policy, decolonisation, and global tobacco trade politics. It concludes by highlighting policy continuities and discontinuities across the colonial-postcolonial divide. By pursuing these matters, the book makes a significant contribution to Zimbabwe’s economic history and to the growing literature on settler-colonial and postcolonial studies, with broader implications for regional and international trade debates. To achieve this, it draws on an extensive coverage of archives in Zimbabwe and South Africa, coupled with relevant newspaper reports, interviews, and industry publications. -
Bettering their foods: Peasant production, nutrition and the state in Malawi, 1859–2005
Item type: Books • Author: Bryson G. NkhomaDespite the long history of agricultural interventions globally, peasants from Malawi and beyond continue to face the challenge of sustainable food production and nutrition. Bettering their foods: Peasant food production, nutrition and the state in Malawi, 1859–2005 weaves together the political, social, economic, demographic, climatic, ecological and global developments that have informed the various food production and nutrition interventions to account for this development. -
The Shame of Shame: (in) contemporary South African performance
Item type: Books • Author: Abigail WieseThe Shame of Shame is an interdisciplinary study located at the intersection of performance studies, affect theory, shame theory, autoethnography and practice-led/research-led methodology. The Shame of Shame would be a helpful companion to anyone trying to process affects of discomfort, racism, Othering and an abjection of the Self. -
Otolith Atlas of Marine Fishes of Southern Africa and Adjacent Oceans: Second Edition – expanded
Item type: Books • Author: Malcolm J Smale and Gillian WatsonIn this new edition, the Otolith Atlas of Marine Fishes of Southern Africa and Adjacent Oceans, authors Malcolm J Smale and Gillian Watson have expanded the coverage of the original benchmark work by Smale, Watson and Hecht (1995) to include almost double the number of species across a wider geographic area. The 1 600 species whose otoliths are described here include not only fishes of the coastal waters of southern Africa but from farther afield, such as in the eastern Atlantic, western Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean. Detailed descriptions are supported by more than 4 000 scanning electron microscope images of individual whole otoliths, giving the reader easy access to otherwise fragile, rare or inaccessible reference material housed in local museum fish collections.
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