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A chronicle of cultural transformation: ethnography of Badagry Ogu musical practices

Author: Kunnuji, Joseph Date: 2020 This thesis examines the musical practices of Badagry Ogu people from both historical and contemporary perspectives and provides strategies for their further integration into the changing social and economic landscape characteristic of ... Read more
A commentary on book 6 of Achilles Tatius Leucippe and Clitophon

Author: Bentel, Berenice Date: 2022 Achilles Tatius' novel, Leucippe and Clitophon (2nd c. CE), is a product of the literary experimentation in prose fiction during the Greek intellectual renaissance under the Roman Empire known as the Second Sophistic. For all appearances, the ... Read more
A comparative analysis of metaphorical expressions used by rural and urban Ndebele speakers: the contribution of S'ncamtho

Author: Ndlovu, Sambulo Date: 2018 This thesis explores language expansion and change through metaphorical expressions that originate with urban youth varieties. It focuses on the impact of S'ncamtho, an Ndebele-based urban youth variety of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe along the ... Read more
A feminist critique of the image of woman in the prose works of selected Xhosa writers (1909 - 1980)

Author: Mtuze, Peter Tshobiso Date: 1990 The study examines, from a feminist point of view, the stereotypic image of woman in Xhosa prose fiction from pre-literate times to the era of written literature (1909 - 1980). Attaching feminist critical theory to conventional literary ... Read more
A history of apartheid censorship through the archive

Author: Lyster, Rosa Frances Date: 2018 Over the course of 26 years, and using 97 different definitions of what the system considered to be “undesirable,” South Africa's apartheid-era censors prevented a vast array of literature from being freely circulated in South Africa. The ... Read more
A history of the Kano Book Market, c. 1920-2020

Author: Adam, Sani Yakubu Date: 2022 By borrowing both empirical and conceptual tools from book history, this dissertation documents the history of the Kano Book Market (KBM) in northern Nigeria. Its sources are drawn from archives, private and public records, oral histories, ... Read more
A posthuman reconfiguring of philosophy with children in a government primary school in South Africa

Author: Reynolds, Rose-Anne Date: 2021 This thesis reconfigures Philosophy with Children and its community of philosophical enquiry pedagogy through posthumanist theories and practices. Philosophy with Children is an emerging movement in South Africa and there is currently very ... Read more
A proposed typology for paedophilia: a grounded theory analysis of online discourse

Author: Verrijdt, Andrew Date: 2019 Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a human rights issue of interest to both science and society. Many CSA offenders are paedophiles. It follows that a thorough understanding of paedophilia is apposite. Unfortunately, there is disagreement in the ... Read more
Abjection in the novels of Marlene Van Niekerk

Author: Crous, Matthys Lourens Date: 2013 In this thesis, three of Marlene van Niekerk's novels, translated from Afrikaans into English, are examined, with the focus on the representation of abjection in the texts under discussion.The theoretical point of departure of this study is ... Read more
Absences, exclusivities and utopias: Afrikaans film as a cinema of political impotence, 1994 - 2014

Author: Broodryk, Chris Willem Date: 2016 This thesis develops a conceptual and theoretical framework within which to position contemporary Afrikaans cinema as a cinema of political impotence. Afrikaans cinema is first located within the tensions of democratic post-transitional South ... Read more
Access to academic practices in an engineering curriculum : drawing on students' representational resources through a multimodal pedagogy

Author: Archer, Arlene Hillary Date: 2004 Read more
Access to alcohol and drug treatment for people from historically disadvantaged communities in the Cape Town metropole

Author: Myers, Bronwyn Jane Date: 2007 This study examined factors associated with access to alcohol and drug treatment for people from historically disadvantaged communities in Cape Town, South Africa. The Behavioural Model of Health Services Utilisation was used as a conceptual ... Read more
“According to social media…” Examining the influence of social media on political reporting within Zimbabwe’s mainstream media

Author: Ndou, Delta Lau Milayo Date: 2019 The Internet’s liberative qualities have been hyped by a number of Zimbabwean scholars who argue, on the basis of the existence of online alternative media that carries political content, that democratisation can be technology-led. Given that ... Read more
African historical religions and Africana spirituality in the Caribbean literature: an analysis of Afro-Caribbean philosophical archetypes in contemporary Caribbean literature using Ifá philosophy as a signifying system

Author: De La Cruz, Garcia Katia Date: 2019 This research analyses the presence of Afro-Caribbean philosophical archetypes in Caribbean literature as fundamental elements in the identity formation and racial dynamics of African descendants in the Caribbean. The main focus is on the ... Read more
African independent churches in Soweto

Author: West, Martin Date: 1972 Of the estimated 6 000 African independent churches in Africa, approximately 3 000 are to be found in Southern Africa. Most of these are in the Republic of South Africa, where the history of the independent church movement goes back nearly a ... Read more
African legislatures active in the budget process?! Emerging trends and consequences for legislative identity

Author: Heim, Kristen Date: 2019 Legislatures in the Southern Africa have made recent signals that they are becoming active in the budget process through the establishment of Budget Committees, Parliamentary Budget Offices, and Constituency Development Funds. These developments ... Read more
African writing in English in Southern Africa : an interpretation of the contribution to world literature of Black Africans within the confines of the Republic of South Africa, Rhodesia and the former British protectorates in Southern Africa

Author: Barnett, Ursula A Date: 1971 It is my purpose to show that in Southern Africa African English literature as defined above has absorbed the culture of the West and has begun to reciprocate by adding its own distinctive features. My contention will be based on an investigation ... Read more
Africans in Cape Town : state policy and popular resistance, 1936-73

Author: Kinkead-Weekes, Barry H Date: 1993 This local history focusses on Cape Town's black African population, the development 'Native' (later 'Bantu') policy, as well as the escalating organised resistance which arose in response. The study relies as far as possible on archival ... Read more
“All these wonderful things”: the place of digital resources in newly qualified English language and literacy teachers' practices, from higher education to high schools

Author: Campbell, Eduard Date: 2021 Understandings of what counts as literacy and of how language is best taught are in considerable flux in the present period. The proliferation of the digital is often cited as a key factor driving this sense of flux. In initial teacher ... Read more
Allegories of drought and of gardens in the novels of J.M. Coetzee and Dambudzo Marechera

Author: Lilford, Charles Grant Date: 1996 This thesis examines the trope of Allegory in the work of two Southern African writers, JM Coetzee and Dambudzo Marechera. It discusses the trope's use in redefining the dominant theme of the dialectic between scarcity and plenty. In much of ... Read more

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