Browsing PhD / Doctoral by Department "African Studies"

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The Community of Steinkopf : an stenographic study and an analysis of social °hangs in Namaqualand

Author: Carstens, WP Date: 1961 This thesis consists mainly of an analysis of the social structure of a small community of rural Coloured people who live on a reserve surrounding the old mission station, Steinkopf, in the North-Western Cape Province. It has been written ... Read more
Contestations and conflicts over land access between smallholder settler farmers and nomadic Fulani cattle herdsmen in the Kwahu Afram Plains South District, Ghana

Author: Otu, Bernard Okoampah Date: 2022 The study examines the contestations and conflicts over land access between smallholder settler farmers and nomadic cattle herders in the Kwahu Afram Plains South District. Current studies on the farmer-herder conflict in Ghana have emphasised ... Read more
Deconstructing “de/colonised knowledge” in South Africa: the case of radical academic history under apartheid (1960-1991)

Author: Martinerie, Camille Date: 2022 This thesis explores the inherent complexities and contradictions embedded in the radical turn in South African historiography with regards to the decolonisation of the discipline of history in South African universities under apartheid from ... Read more
Fast track land reform and belonging: examining linkages between resettlement areas and communal areas in Zvimba District, Zimbabwe

Author: Marewo, Malvern Kudakwashe Date: 2020 This study examines whether beneficiaries of Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) of 2000 in resettlement areas maintain linkages with communal areas of origin. Present studies about the FTLRP provide limited in-depth attention ... Read more
Household and community effects of contract farming after the fast track land reform programme: a case study of Mazowe tobacco farmers

Author: Moyo, Moses Date: 2019 This study investigates the household and community effects that arise from tobacco farmers’ participation and performance under tobacco contract farming arrangements in Mazowe District. The provision of land to A1 Fast Track Land Reform ... Read more
Knowledge, chivanhu and struggles for survival in conflict-torn Manicaland, Zimbabwe

Author: Nhemachena, Artwell Date: 2014 This dissertation explored how villagers in a district of Manicaland province of Zimbabwe deeply affected by violence and want survived the violence that has characterised Zimbabwe’s most recent politics (from the year 2000). Marked by invasions ... Read more
Land rights and land conflicts in Kibaale since the colonial settlement

Author: Baligira, John Date: 2020 This thesis examines why there has been persistent conflict over land in Africa, with reference to Kibaale district in western Uganda. The land conflicts, especially in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa, are attributed to such factors as the ... Read more
Negotiating whiteness: a discourse analysis of students' descriptions of their raced experiences at Rhodes University, Grahamstown,1 South Africa

Author: Msomi, Zuziwe Nokwanda Date: 2020 Questions of the dominance of cultures of whiteness are pre-imminent issues in historically white South African universities. Even when historically white universities – such as Rhodes University, the site of study for this thesis – have a ... Read more
Renaissance and revenants in an emerging global city: discourses of heritage and urban design in Cape Town's District One and District Six, 2002-2014

Author: Ernsten, Christian Date: 2017 On 10 January 2014, the New York Times placed Cape Town at the top of its list of the "52 places to go in 2014". The hopeful rhetoric of the city as ultimate holiday destination, African creative metropolis, prime global-events location and ... Read more
Sartorial disruption: an investigation of the histories, dispositions, and related museum practices of the dress/fashion collections at Iziko Museums as a means to re-imagine and re-frame the sartorial in the museum

Author: de Greef, Erica Date: 2019 In this thesis I investigate and interrogate the historical and current compositions, conditions and dispositions of three collections containing sartorial objects of three formerly separate museums – the South African Museum, the South African ... Read more
Southern experiences in dialogue: a case study on South Atlantic knowledge production

Author: Efron, Laura Date: 2020 Signature to be removed Read more
State-prioritised heritage: governmentality, heritage management and the prioritisation of the liberation heritage in post-colonial South Africa

Author: Manetsi, Thabo Date: 2017 This study seeks to examine and trace the notion of state prioritisation of heritage in relation to state intervention through political, policy and governance regimes in heritage management in South Africa. The study covers key highlights ... Read more
The age system of the Nilo-Hamitic peoples : a comparative analysis.

Author: Bernardi, Bernardo ; Bernardi, Bernardo Date: 1952 The aim of the present work is a comparative study of the age-systems of the Nilo-Hamites and of their functions in the whole setting of the Nilo-Hamitic social organisation. It was our original plan to cover the whole area of East Africa ... Read more
The biopolitics of violence in the drama of the Niger Delta

Author: Ajumeze, Henry Obi Date: 2018 The representation of the Niger Delta insurgency in cultural texts is often registered from the viewpoint of human history, an approach that foregrounds the politics of resistance against the multinational oil corporations in ways that ignore ... Read more
The role of social capital in the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) of Zimbabwe: a case of Rouxdale (R/E) Farm, Bubi District, Matabeleland North Province

Author: Ncube, Senzeni Date: 2018 This study investigates the role of social capital towards the realisation of the positive benefits of land through the A1 crop-based villagised model of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP), which has been largely viewed as successful ... Read more
Tonal Landscapes: Re-membering the interiority of lives of apartheid through the family album of the oppressed

Author: O'Connell, Siona Date: 2012 This research seeks to be a methodological contribution to the fields of visual and memory studies. It enters these conversations through the family photograph found in the home of forcibly removed ex-residents of Roger Street, District Six, ... Read more
Traditional authorities and co-management of protected areas in South Africa: the case of Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve in the Eastern Cape

Author: Tsawu, Simphiwe Date: 2022 This thesis examines the role of traditional authorities in the post-land claim co-management of protected areas in the former Bantustans of South Africa, using the Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve (DCNR) in the Eastern Cape as a case study. The ... Read more