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African Journal of Marine Science
Item type: JournalsAn international forum for the publication of original scientific contributions or critical reviews, involving oceanic, shelf or estuarine waters, inclusive of oceanography, studies of organisms and their habitats, and aquaculture. -
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. -
African Journal of Range & Forage Science
Item type: JournalsThe leading rangeland and pastoral journal in Africa. The Journal is dedicated to publishing quality original material that advances rangeland ecology and pasture management. -
Anthropology Southern Africa
Item type: JournalsAnthropology Southern Africa aims to promote anthropology in southern Africa, to support ethnographic and theoretical research, and to provide voices to public debates. The journal is committed to contemporary perspectives in social and cultural anthropology and in relevant interdisciplinary scholarship. It looks at the current conditions in southern African, African and global societies, taking into consideration varied challenges such as the politics of difference, or poverty and dignity. -
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. -
Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Item type: JournalsPublishes papers that contribute to improving the mental health of children and adolescents, especially those in Africa. It covers subjects such as epidemiology, mental health prevention and promotion, psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, policy and risk behaviour. -
Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa
Item type: JournalsAn accredited, internationally refereed journal that aims to combine ethnomusicological, musicological, music educational and performance-based research in a unique way to promote the musical arts on the African continent. This journal also incorporates book, audio and audiovisual media and software reviews. -
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. -
South African Journal of Plant and Soil
Item type: JournalsOriginal articles and commentaries on research in the fields of fundamental and applied soil and plant science. Original research papers, short communications including germplasm registrations, relevant book reviews and commentaries on papers recently published, and, exceptionally, review articles, will be considered for publication in the Journal. -
Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science
Item type: JournalsOne of the leading forestry journals in the Southern Hemisphere. The journal publishes scientific articles in forest science and management of fast-growing, planted or natural forests in the Southern Hemisphere and the tropics. -
Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology
Item type: JournalsWe welcome submissions from scholars situated all over the globe, but give preference to papers which either originate in the Southern Hemisphere or which address theorising in the Continental tradition as practised and developed in the Southern Hemisphere. -
African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development
Item type: JournalsHarnessing science and technology, and fostering innovation have become imperatives to address the problems and challenges of structural transformation of the South. This is increasingly so in the context of globalised and knowledge economy. AJSTID focuses on science, technology, and innovation in Africa. -
South African Journal of African Languages
Item type: JournalsA peer-reviewed research journal devoted to the advancement of African (Bantu) and Khoe-San languages and literatures. -
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. -
Catalogue of Eastern Cape Craft
Item type: Books • Author: Jen Rowland and Tori StoweThe Eastern Cape is one of the most culturally diverse and interesting regions in South Africa today. It is also home to many skilled artists and craftspeople. The catalogue of Eastern Cape Craft is a project which aims to bring exposure to the local crafters of the Eastern Cape and showcase their wares to the broader local and international community. -
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. -
Botanical Guide to the Local Wild Flowers of Rhodes Village and Neighbouring Valleys in the Cape Drakensberg
Item type: Books • Author: Brendan ColeThe Botanical Guide to the Local Wild Flowers of Rhodes Village and Neighbouring Valleys in the Cape Drakensberg offers a comprehensive introduction to the flora found around Rhodes Village in the Cape Drakensberg. Each selected plant is explored in detail, covering its taxonomy, historical background, horticultural appeal, and, where applicable, its medicinal and cultural significance. -
Technological Disruption in Legal Education and Practice: Navigating the complexities and embracing the future
Item type: Books • Author: Carika Keulder (editor)Law schools and faculties are grappling with how to incorporate technology into their curriculum development, and practitioners are confronting unprecedented doctrinal questions raised by AI and digitalisation. Technological Disruption in Legal Education and Practice is a collection of contributions by 13 authors and edited by Carika Keulder that addresses the impact of new digital technologies on the way that law is taught and practiced. -
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. -
Levy Patrick Mwanawasa: An Incentive for Posterity
Item type: Books • Author: Amos MalupengaThis book is a great narration of the life story of a great man – an outstanding statesman and a visionary son of Zambia. It is a fascinating account of the life of President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa, SC. This tale, accomplished soon after the untimely death of Levy in August, 2008, constitutes a true refl ection of the life and presidency of Zambia’s third Head of State. Amos Malupenga has, in essence, penned in glaring detail the biography of a revered African leader. -
Living by Voices we shall Never Hear: Seeing Animals Differently
Item type: Books • Author: Edited by Pauline & Les MitchellLes Mitchell a South African and member of Cape Eastern RM, with his partner Pauline edited and produced this first collection of writing from Friends who believe, as part of their following of the Peace testimony, we must as Quakers advocate for the rights of other than human animals. The writers come from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, US, and Zimbabwe. -
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. -
We Can: Black Politics in Cradock, South Africa 1948-1985
Item type: Books • Author: Michael S. TetelmanThe author demonstrates the general tensions that dogged activists in the liberation struggle from the 1930s through the 1980s; how sport, church, education and beer hall recreation were used for different political outcomes. He shows how youth incrementally pushed the struggle to higher levels of intensity. There is a moment, about 1983-84, in We Can, when charismatic Cradock teacher-activist Matthew Goniwe managed to get African clergy, youth, and elite to transcend their differences. But a complex youth-based grassroots movement, in various communities guises, as well as a militarized response from the apartheid state, set the agenda for a new South Africa by this time. Tetelman's book adds significant value to South Africa's protest literature. It enhances our understanding of the complexity of struggle at local level, and it fleshes out our national narrative. -
Africa Journal of Management
Item type: JournalsThe Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) welcomes manuscripts that develop, test, replicate or validate management theories, tools and methods with Africa as the starting point. The journal is open to a wide range of quality, evidence-based methodological approaches and methods that “link” “Western” management theories with Africa’s indigenous knowledge systems, methods and practice. -
South African Journal of Accounting Research
Item type: JournalsThe South African Journal of Accounting Research (SAJAR) publishes peer-reviewed original research papers, notes and commentaries that address issues relevant to accounting academics and professional accountants in Southern Africa and elsewhere. -
Investment Analysts Journal
Item type: JournalsThe Investment Analysts Journal is the official journal of the Investment Analysts Society of South Africa. The journal publishes significant new research in finance and investments and seeks to establish a balance between theoretical and empirical studies. Papers written in any areas of finance, investment, accounting and economics will be considered for publication. -
Research in Hospitality Management
Item type: JournalsA peer-reviewed journal publishing papers that make an original contribution to the understanding of hospitality and hospitality management in a global context. It has a strong focus on issues which have an immediate practical application – giving the journal relevance to academics as well as industry practitioners. -
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. -
South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Item type: JournalsAssociation for Dietetics in South Africa, Nutrition Society of South Africa, South African Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and our publisher Taylor & Francis make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the "Content") contained in our publications. However, Association for Dietetics in South Africa, Nutrition Society of South Africa, South African Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and our publisher Taylor & Francis, our agents (including the Editor, any member of the Editorial team or Editorial board, and any guest Editors), and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors and are not the views of or endorsed by Association for Dietetics in South Africa, Nutrition Society of South Africa, South African Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and our publisher Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information. Association for Dietetics in South Africa, Nutrition Society of South Africa, South African Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and our publisher Taylor & Francis shall not be liable for any losses, actions, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to, or arising out of the use of the Content. Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at: http://www.tandfonline.com/page/terms-and-conditions . -
African Journal of Herpetology
Item type: JournalsAfrican Journal of Herpetology (AJH) serves as an outlet for original research on the biology of African amphibians and reptiles. AJH is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes original articles and reviews from diverse fields and disciplines, such as conservation, phylogenetics, evolution, systematics, performance, physiology, ecology, behavioural ecology, ethology, and morphology. -
What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance
Item type: Books • Author: Ayo AdeduntanWhat the Forest Told Me conveys the elastic nature of African cultural expression through narratives of the Yoruba hunters' exploits. Hunters' narratives provide a window on the Yoruba understanding and explanation of their world; a cosmology that negates the anthropocentric view of creation. In a very literal sense, man, in this peculiar world, is an equal actor with animal and nature spirits with whom he constantly contests and negotiates space. -
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. -
Gender Terrains in African Cinema
Item type: Books • Author: Dominica DipioGender Terrains in African Cinema reflects on a body of canonical African filmmakers who address a trajectory of pertinent social issues. Dipio analyses gender relations around three categories of female characters – the girl child, the young woman and the elderly woman and their male counterparts. Although gender remains the focal point in this lucid and fascinating text, Dipio engages attention in her discussion of African feminism in relation to Western feminism. With its broad appeal to African humanities, Gender Terrains in African Cinema stands as a unique and radical contribution to the field of (African) film studies, which until now, has suffered from a paucity of scholarship. -
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. -
Constitutional Court Review
Item type: JournalsThe Constitutional Court Review (CCR) is an international journal of record that tracks the work of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. The long essays, replies, articles and case comments use recent decisions to navigate more general currents in the Court’s jurisprudence. The Journal follows a strict double-anonymized, peer-reviewed editorial process. The CCR invites contributions from outstanding scholars but also considers unsolicited submissions that fit with the aims and scope of the Journal. It is published annually. Articles are published Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY). -
Beyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities
Item type: Books • Author: Kwesi YankahBy integrating his own biography into a critique of the global politics of knowledge production, Yankah, through a collection of essays, interrogates critical issues confronting the Humanities that spawn intellectual hegemonies and muffle African voices. Using the example of Ghana, he brings under scrutiny, amongst others, endemic issues of academic freedom, gender inequities, the unequal global academic order, and linguistic imperialism in language policies in governance. -
Parading Respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa
Item type: Books • Author: Sylvia BruindersParading respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa is an intimate and incisive portrait of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape of South Africa. -
The Anglophone Literary-Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse
Item type: Books • Author: Michael AndindilileMichael Andindilile interrogates Obi Wali’s (1963) prophecy that continued use of former colonial languages in the production of African literature could only lead to ‘sterility’, as African literatures can only be written in indigenous African languages. -
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. -
Reading the Animal Text in the Landscape of the Damned
Item type: Books • Author: Les MitchellReading the animal text in the landscape of the damned looks at the diverse texts of our everyday world relating to nonhuman animals and examines the meanings we imbibe from them. It describes ways in which we can explore such artefacts, especially from the perspective of groups and individuals with little or no power. This work understands the oppression of nonhuman animals as being part of a spectrum incorporating sexism, racism, xenophobia, economic exploitation and other forms of oppression. The enquiry includes, physical landscapes, the law, women’s rights, history, slavery, language use, economic coercion, farming, animal experimentation and much more. -
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. -
African Personhood and Applied Ethics
Item type: Books • Author: Motsamai MolefeAfrican Personhood and Applied Ethics offers a philosophical explication of the ethics of personhood to give reasons why we should take it seriously as an African moral perspective that can contribute to global moral-political issues. -
A contribution to the South African Materia Medica
Item type: Books • Author: Andrew Smith of St CyrusThis facsimile edition is introduced by Tony Dold and Michelle Cocks of Rhodes University, themselves expert on the social and medicinal uses of indigenous plants. They situate Smith’s work in the context of earlier studies of South African medicinal plants, and they update it with a look at subsequent writings as well as the continuing relevance of indigenous medicines today. -
Yabbing and Wording: The artistry of Nigerian stand-up comedy
Item type: Books • Author: Izuu NwankwọYabbing and Wording: The artistry of Nigerian stand-up comedy is a long-overdue academic interrogation of the novel stand-up practice in Nigeria as performance. ‘Yabbing’ comes from the Nigerian Pidgin English verb, ‘yab’, which means a satirical jibe thrown at individuals, groups or institutions. Nigeria’s Fela Anikulapo-Kuti used this effectively in his recorded and live music performances against successive military regimes. ‘Wording’ derives from the English term ‘word’ and refers to a game in which parties exchange insults. It is a modern-day coinage for traditional forms of joking that existed across Nigeria and elsewhere in precolonial times. -
Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's record of a journey with Dorothea Bleek across Angola in 1925
Item type: Books • Author: Tony Dold and Jean Kelly (Editors)Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's record of a journey with Dorothea Bleek across Angola in 1925 presents the record of a remarkable overland journey documented by the botanist Mary Agard Pocock and illustrated, in colour, with her photographs, sketches and paintings of southern Angola, its people and its plants. The purpose of the six-month-long expedition, by boat, on foot and by machila, was primarily for the renowned ethnologist Dorothea Bleek to collect ethnographic information of the last remaining Bushmen of the region. Besides her role as aide-de-camp, Mary Pocock’s intention was to study the flora. She collected almost 1000 plant specimens from this virtually unexplored region, several of which proved to be new to science. -
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. -
Men across time: Contesting masculinities in Ghanaian fiction and film
Item type: Books • Author: Theresah Patrine EnninMen across time: Contesting masculinities in Ghanaian fiction and film examines the various constructions and manifestations of masculinities from precolonial, colonial, independent and post-independent Ghana as portrayed in selected Ghanaian fiction, film and music videos. This book submits that in questioning the various masculine modes of behaviours portrayed in these texts, and negotiating their own masculine identities, the male characters showcase the mutations that are taking place within masculine representations over time and aver that other models of masculine expression are possible. -
Queer Bodies in African Films
Item type: Books • Author: Gibson NcubeIn examining diverse films in various languages and from different parts of the African continent, Queer Bodies in Africa Films shows that queer African experiences and cultural productions have developed beyond the hegemony of South Africa. Furthermore. its nuanced reading of films from different geographic zones and time frames contends that a focus on the body allows for a unique understanding of what queerness is and means within the context of Africa. -
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. -
Living with ‘Others’: Ethnic conflict and pluralism in Uganda’s Greater Kibaale Region
Item type: Books • Author: Jimmy Spire SsentongoKibaale region in Uganda provides an interesting case study where periods of conflict between the ‘indigenous’ people (the Banyoro) and ‘immigrants’ (the Bafuruki) have been interspersed with instances of coexistence. Whereas much scholarly work has discussed episodes of tension and conflict, the moments of peace have scarcely been touched upon. Living with ‘Others’: Ethnic Conflict and Pluralism in Uganda's Greater Kibaale Region contributes to ethnicity debates by exploring how the people of Kibaale imagine and live out possibilities for coexistence. In do so, Living with ‘Others’ makes a contribution to theories of ethnic pluralism and practical imaginations of coexistence in Kibaale. These can be applied to the rest of Uganda, Africa and elsewhere in the world where inter-ethnic conflicts have disrupted peace and resulted in human suffering. -
Marrying Accidentally: The story of Hatsuko Takara
Item type: Books • Author: Amos MalupengaThe story of Hatsuko Takara-Kalabula is one of a Japanese woman who decided to visit Zambia back in the 1970s, fell in love with the country and its people, and chose to stay. It is also an inspiring story about the power of love to break racial prejudice and transcend religious bigotry that still fuel many social injustices across the globe today. It is a story of courage; of how a young girl escaped the horrors of the Second World War and decided to pursue her own dream, against all odds. It is a story of a woman who ventured into a continent and country unknown to her. -
A Powerhouse of the Spirit: The Life and Art of Sister Margaret Watson of Grahamstown
Item type: Books • Author: William BarhamA Powerhouse of the Spirit tells the story of a remarkable woman, Margaret Watson, who left her conventionally middle-class home in England to join an Anglican sisterhood in Grahamstown (now known as Makhanda) in what was then the Cape Colony at the start of the twentieth century. This extraordinary community of inspiring women engaged themselves in educational and caring work among young people of all races in South Africa. They built an impressive network of schools, orphanages and homes across the subcontinent that left their mark both nationally and in countless individual lives. It was in this community of dedicated women that Margaret Watson found fulfilment and self-expression both spiritually and artistically. Her work as a painter, whose vision was nourished by her inner life, is becoming increasingly recognised and appreciated.
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