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For centuries the continent of Africa has been characterised by negative images such as poverty, disease and conflicts. Today, however, the People's Republic of China's growing presence in Africa, particularly with regards to China-Africa business relations, brings new vitality to the continent. This new movement is not a windfall but rather obtained through the hard work of both African and Chinese people at various levels. Narrating on daily experiences of Chinese merchants and their vivid interactions with people in Botswana, this book decodes the frustrating while rewarding process through which China-Africa relations have been maturing on the grass-roots level. This book not only presents insights and suggestions to both Botswana and Chinese policy makers interested in understanding their constituents' everyday interactions with each other, but also offers readers interested more broadly in contemporary Chinese experiences in Africa a fascinating glimpse into these cross-cultural encounters. This book is an original and pioneering study of issues that resonate in almost every African country which has responded to a growing Chinese presence. It argues that as the process of globalisation permeates the everyday lives of people, each individual is empowered to be an 'ambassador' in shaping international relations.
Messages from the Bees
(2017)
In this second collection Messages from the Bees Robin Winckel-Mellish shows the same qualities as A Lioness at my Heels, but this time runs deeper, darker and stronger. She delves not only into the riotous colours of southern Africa: birds, bees and caracals, but also climate change, while different kinds of love are pinpointed. Her poems of loss and grief are candid and even sensuous, showing the beauty of simplicity in bleakness. Both delicate and reflective these poems honour the wild while retaining a deeply-felt sense of connection with all that is relevant to our lives.
Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data, however, focuses on high-income countries. Much less is known about open data's role and value in low- and middle-income countries, and more generally about its possible contributions to economic and social development. Open Data for Developing Economies features in-depth case studies on how open data is having an impact across the developing world-from an agriculture initiative in Colombia to data-driven healthcare projects in Uganda and South Africa to crisis response in Nepal. The analysis built on these case studies aims to create actionable intelligence regarding: (a) the conditions under which open data is most (and least) effective in development, presented in the form of a Periodic Table of Open Data; (b) strategies to maximize the positive contributions of open data to development; and (c) the means for limiting open data's harms on developing countries.
'Magnus Opus: A Tribute to Ntarikon is a scathing indictment of the political status quo in the Republic of Cameroon where the ruling party, the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM), rides roughshod over the populace. In this long poem, Vakunta cries out poignantly against social dystopia and the deplorable moments lived by members of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) at Ntarikon Park on May 26, 1990. One cannot read this poem without feeling the despair and helplessness experienced by members of this political party as they were maimed, killed and reminded that the future holds no good for them. The prosody and semantics of the poem amplify the ontological angst experienced by Cameroonians on a daily basis.' Kashama Mulamba, Ph.D, Professor of English and French, Olivet Nazarene University, USA
The Lie of the Land
(2017)
The Lie of the Land is a novel set against the background of the German colonial wars in Namibia in the early 1900s. The central character is an academic in linguistics who occasionally acts as a British agent. He is a cynical, private individual who sees himself as a neutral observer but is eventually forced to take sides when he witnesses the atrocities of the Herero and Nama genocide and, above all, meets a young Nama woman who enchants him. The novel explores the shifting nature of the oppressor and the oppressed. Despite the unfolding tragic events, the story is lightened by surprising bursts of humour, and is ultimately a love story.
Though predominantly on oil and gas law, this is nonetheless a veritable Reference Book on the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. It places before anyone interested in the oil and gas industry basic and critical oil and gas issues not in common circulation in existing texts on the subject. The book is arranged in such a chronological order, like reference books and dictionaries tend to be,that a lay person in going through it would now know how oil is explored and found,how oil fields may be onshore and offshore, how oil blocs are bidded for, how oil is drilled, including associated gas deposits, among others. The transportation of oil and gas, storage of oil and gas, refining of oil and processing of gas, marketing of oil and gas,the impact of oil and gas exploration, production and revenues on the Nigerian environment, politics and economy and a myriad of other issues are comprehensively covered. The book should prove most useful to the lawyer, petroleum geologist, petroleum engineer, policy makers, investors, local and international development agencies and bodies, lecturers and students specialising in wide ranging subjects as economics, development studies, engineering, management, public administration, insurance, marketing, accounting and finance.
Knell.Ashes.Seppuku
(2017)
A delinquent son, a barren woman, troubled marriages, a reunion between old childhood friends, and all manner of family drama. This novel's sudden twists and turns have all the makings of a relatable African saga. Tinashe is an intelligent and vibrant young man who is sent to the city of Gweru to further his education at Midlands State University by his father. He is staying with his aunt Margaret who is always fighting with her son Cephas. Tinashe is looking forward to enjoying life and having a great time in the city but things do not seem to be in parallel with his expectations. He later realises this when he is wrongly accused of murdering his aunt, Margaret.
Political parties and the party system that underpins South Africa's democracy have the potential to build a cohesive and prosperous nation. But in the past few years the ANC's dominance has strained the system and tested it and its institutions' fortitude. There are deeper issues of accountability that often spurn the Constitution and there is also a clear need to foster meaningful public participation and transparency. This volume offers a different and detailed assessment of the health of South Africa's political system. This study intends to unravel the condition of the party system in South Africa and culminates in the question: Do South African parties promote or hinder democracy in the country? The areas of the party system that are known to require continued work are the weakness of democratic structures within parties, the perceived lack of responsibility of elected parliamentarians towards voters, non-transparent private partner financing structures and a lack of attractiveness of party-political commitment, especially for women. Experts in the respective fields address all of these areas in this book.
Carl Brinitzer, 1907–1974
(2017)
Der aus deutsch-jüdischer Familie stammende Jurist Carl Brinitzer lebte ab 1933 im Exil, zunächst in Italien, ab 1936 in London. Dort erlernte er als Mitarbeiter der BBC u. a. das Handwerk des Übersetzens. Nach Kriegsende blieb er in England als freischaffender Journalist für deutsche Blätter, übersetzte auch mehrere Bücher, darunter zwei Biografien und vier Kriminalromane.
Die Goethe-Universität ernannte 1959 den Frankfurter NS-Schul- und Kulturdezernenten Rudolf Keller sowie den NS-Stadtkämmerer Friedrich Lehmann zu Ehrenbürgern. Vor allem: sie erklärte beide feierlich zu NS-Gegnern. In welche NS-Untaten aber waren beide involviert und worüber waren sie informiert? Das Ergebnis ist die Historiographie: „Schuld und Ehrung. Die Kommunalpolitiker Rudolf Keller und Friedrich Lehmann zwischen 1933 und 1960 - ein Beitrag zur NS-Geschichte in Frankfurt am Main“. Es wird vielfältig und en détail dargelegt, wie beide an NS-Verbrechen und Vergehen beteiligt waren; ihre Rolle im „Dritten Reich“ wird nachgezeichnet. Die Untersuchung fügt sich in aktuelle Forschungen zum erweiterten Täterkreis und zu intellektuellen Unterstützern ein. Die Studie wendet sich an das lokale wie das überregionale Fachpublikum und an die Frankfurter Stadtgesellschaft.
Walking, Falling
(2017)
Walking, Falling is Kelwyn Soles seventh collection of poetry. It extends and deepens themes that emerged in his earlier books: love and human relationships; the exposing of false and clichéd perspectives in our socio-political life; our relationship as South Africans to land and landscape. Rustum Kozain has written about his work: Whether the theme is the end of a relationship or the murder of immigrants, there is the calm look of analysis, a voice, like a conscience, that threatens to disturb the readers complacency, but a voice simultaneously gentle with empathy and sincerity.
Radical land reform programmes generate changes in agrarian structures and capital accumulation trajectories in the countryside. This book examines how capital accumulation is being reshaped by changing financing and marketing of agricultural commodities and presents an emerging Quadi-PMMR-model agrarian structure composed of the poor, middle, middle-to-rich peasants and some rich capitalists with a growing middle scale farmer base constituting two thirds of the rural population in Zimbabwe. This evidence based assessment, 15 years after the FTLRP, sheds light on policy outcomes and impacts on communities, revealing the changing production, marketing, capital accumulation and class formation tendencies across Zimbabwe's settlement models and agro-ecological settings. The book fuses the reliance on agrarian political economy lenses and factor component analysis to reveal the dynamics of agrarian change and to explore the dialectic between production and circulation and between the centre and periphery in exceptional fashion that expands our understanding of Zimbabwe's agrarian transition.
Navigate
(2017)
In her second volume of poetry, Karin Schimke explores the idea of home, contemplating notions of belonging and un-belonging and the various places and ways in which one is at home. With her characteristic lyricism, Schimke questions the poets right or duty to speak, while delivering a meditation on love in all its cruel, gleaming facets, as she traces her own psychic constellations back into the blistering orbit of her father. Drawing from the blood and milk of memory, in symphonic shifts of language, her poems are as forgiving as they are furious, summoning both the elemental and the numinous in a masterful painting of the relationship between people and the natural world. Traversing the haunted landscapes of the past and present, the political and the personal, Navigate is a psalm, startling in its honesty, unforgettable in its beauty.
This book discusses various issues related to university governance in Africa, with a specific focus on current dynamics. It provides an understanding of the changes in the governance structures of higher education institutions. The book will appeal to those who wish to transform Africa in the context of the knowledge economy.
Debates about international migration in South Africa often centre on the role of international migrant entrepreneurs who are seen to be more successful than their South African counterparts, squeezing them out of entrepreneurial spaces, particularly in townships. This report explores and compares the experiences of international and South African migrant entrepreneurs operating informal sector businesses in Johannesburg.
At the end of his tether, Solomon Wenku contemplates a life gone awry amid widespread postcolonial squalor. Tani enters his life supposedly as a contrast to his encroaching existential gloom only to speed up the pace of his total collapse. Sanya Oshas cult novel beams a searchlight on what it feels like to survive personally and collectively in unyielding tropical malaise. This web of a narrative pits the rural versus the urban, tradition against modernity with a gallery of immortal characters and with a yearning that sings lushly of freedom.
Examined here are the legal and practical reasons for the inefficiency of the legal framework of creditor protection in Nigeria. This is amply justified considering the critical role of credit in the promotion of economic growth and development and also bearing in mind the near calamitous consequences the 2009 financial crisis unleashed not only among Nigerian banks and financial institutions, and in the international financial system. The latter nearly led to socioeconomic catastrophe in Nigeria, as well as globally. It is hoped that book is found useful by government, policy makers, academics, corporate financial experts, investment bankers and other stakeholders to initiate and implement efficient policy actions to protect creditors in order to sustain the flow of credit, the engine of any economy.
In this book, Dr. Olufemi Oluniyi takes a fresh look at Muslim-Christian violence which has become synonymous with the name of Northern Nigeria. It is fresh in the sense that he takes a historical approach to the problem, dating back to the founding of Northern Nigeria. This approach inevitably brings to the fore the culpability of the colonial government for the institutionalisation of inequality and for pursuing policies which are tantamount to planting the seeds of religious violence for post-independence fruitage and harvest. By highlighting the role of the colonial administration, he is by no means suggesting that post-independence perpetrators of violence are less culpable for their crimes against humanity. Rather, the highlight is meant to raise awareness of what was really going on, despite offical cover-up.
This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practiced in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right, by those who police the borders of knowledge, to think and represent their realities in accordance with the civilisations and universes they know best. Often, the ways of life they cherish are labelled and dismissed too eagerly as traditional knowledge by some of the very African intellectual elite they look to for protection. The book makes a case for sidestepped traditions of knowledge. It draws attention to Africa's possibilities, prospects and emergent capacities for being and becoming in tune with its creativity and imagination. It speaks to the nimble-footed flexible-minded 'frontier African' at the crossroads and junctions of encounters, facilitating creative conversations and challenging regressive logics of exclusionary identities. The book uses Amos Tutuola's stories to question dualistic assumptions about reality and scholarship, and to call for conviviality, interconnections and interdependence between competing knowledge traditions in Africa.
The surprisingly high rate of supermarket patronage in low-income areas of Windhoek, Namibia's capital and largest city, is at odds with conventional wisdom that supermarkets in African cities are primarily patronized by middle and high-income residents and therefore target their neighbourhoods. What is happening in Namibia and other Southern African countries that make supermarkets so much more accessible to the urban poor? What are they buying at supermarkets and how frequently do they shop there? Further, what is the impact of supermarket expansion on informal food vendors? This report, which presents the findings from the South African Supermarkets in Growing African Cities project research in 2016-2017 in Windhoek, looks at the evidence and tries to answer these questions and others. The research and policy debate on the relationship between the supermarket revo- lution and food security is also discussed. Here, the issues include whether supermarket supply chains and procurement practices miti- gate rural food insecurity through providing new market opportunities for smallholder farmers; the impact of supermarkets on the food security and consumption patterns of residents of African cities; and the relationship between supermarket expansion and governance of the food system, particularly at the local level.
This book critically examines the relevance of the increasingly popular theories on relationality by interfacing those theories with the African [Shona] modes of engagement known as chivanhu [often erroneously narrowly translated as tradition]. In other words, the book takes seriously concerns by African scholars that much of the theories that have been applied in Africa do not speak to relevance and faithfulness to the continent. Situated in a recent Zimbabwean context marked by multiple crises producing multiple forms of violence and want, the book examines the relevance of relational ontologies and epistemologies to the everyday life modes of engagements by villagers in a selected district. The book unflinchingly surfaces the strengths and weaknesses of popular theories while at the same time underlining the exigencies of theorising from Africa using African data as the millstones. By meticulously and painstakingly unpacking pertinent issues, the book provides unparalleled intellectual grit for the contemporary and increasingly popular discourses on (de-)coloniality and resilience in relation to the African peoples and their [often deliberately contested] environments, past, present and future. In other words, the book loudly sounds the bells for the battles to decolonise and transform Africa on Africa's own terms. This is a book that would be extremely useful to scholars, activists, theorists, policy makers and implementers as well as researchers interested not only in Africa's future trajectory but also in the simultaneities of temporalities and worlds that were sadly overshadowed by colonial epistemologies and ontologies for the past centuries.
Barbed Forest
(2017)
Ellen Ndeshi Namhila is intrigued by the question: Why can the National Archives of Namibia respond to genealogical enquiries of Whites in a matter of minutes with finding estate records of deceased persons, while similar requests from Blacks cannot be served? Not satisfied with the sweeping statement that this is the result of colonialism and apartheid, she follows the track of so-called Native estates through legislation, record creation and disposal, records management and administrative neglect, authorised and unauthorised destruction, transfer and appraisal, selective processing, and (almost) final amnesia. Eventually she discovers over 11,000 forgotten surviving African estate records but also evidence for the destruction of many others. And she demonstrates the potential of these records to interpret the lives of those who otherwise appear in history only as statistics records which were condemned to destruction by colonial archivists stating they had little research value and no functional value. This study of memory against forgetting is a call to post-colonial archives to re-visit their holdings and the systemic colonial bias that continues to haunt them. This is the revised version of Ellen Namhilas 2015 doctoral thesis published at the University of Tampere, Finland.
In many instances, the colonial state has left a strong imprint on the postcolonial archive. In the National Archives of Namibia (NAN), for instance, it is difficult to locate pre-independence person-related records of the black majority, while the same type of records of their light-skinned compatriots are easily accessible. This lecture discusses a substantial corpus of about 11 000 so-called 'Native Estates' files which previously were not accessible through the existing finding aids. What is the research potential of these formerly neglected and untouched records in particular regarding the social history of contract labour in Namibia and of African migrants on a wider scale? Furthermore, a substantial amount of estate files of migrants from other African countries were discovered - a feature of Namibian history that has rarely been researched. The sometimes very detailed files reveal information on the migrants' origin, their integration in Namibian society and expatriate networks in the country. They also reveal that not only Angolans and West Africans but also a substantial number of migrants from other Southern African colonies found employment opportunities in Namibia during the colonial era. The 'Native Estate' records thus have an important research potential with regard to the entire Southern African region, which was heavily reliant on migrant labour both on the demand and on the supply side.
Today's Islamists are not a reproduction of an ancient legacy, but are modern political actors defined by modern discourses, argues Basheer Nafiin The Islamists. He examines the emergence and development of political Islam in the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, discussing the historical context within which political Islam arose, and relating it to the social movements and political parties that lead the phenomenon today. On questions concerning the state, economics and law, the differences among Islamists are no less than their agreements. Nafit eases out some of these agreements and differences relating to governance, citizenship, pluralism, unity, revivalism, and truth. This very accessible work, intended for both an academic and general audience, highlights these matters by examining the groups and individuals that constitute the broad category of political Islam, considering how they have developed over time, and how they have impacted on the countries in which they operate.
Echoes of a Whisper
(2017)
Lughano Mwangweghos Echoes of a Whisper is an imaginative array of poetic verse steeped in Africa and tackling the fraught space of being betwixt and between, within and without, memory and the present. Love runs avidly as a theme throughout and imagery thereof is at once beautiful and absurd, adding further to a sense of suspension, a sense of unease. Mwangweghos poetry is edgy: its colour is that of tension. Yet, in such a way it speaks to both mind and soul - in places it provokes both physical and emotional reaction from the reader and the empowerment it transfers is uncanny. As his second collection of poetry, Malawian poet and short story writer Lughano Mwangwegho once again offers here writing rich in anguish and loveliness.
This project come out from our need to harness voices in Africa and Latin America, giving these voices an opportunity to converse, argue, synthesize, agree, and share ideas on the craft of writing, on life, on being and on thinking for the benefit of all. It was also an opportunity to create literary friendships and contacts between these two great regions. Generally, Latin America and Africa still have a lot of stories to share among themselves and with the rest of the world. There are still very strong untapped storytelling traditions in these continents. The stories in this volume are selected from an amazing range of entries to a call for contributions to an anthology on experimentation. It is hoped this robust selection will serve a wide variety of tastes in both Spanish and English, and that the book will open dialogue and the sharing of ideas between the two regions and the whole world. This is an invaluable contribution on many fronts.
This book comprises 19 creative non-fiction pieces and essays centred around the topics of language, thought, art and existence seen through the prism of practising artist in contemporary Africa. The collection continues with Zimbabwe's Tendai Mwanaka's creative non-fiction ideology of presenting non-fiction in a creative, fresh, easy reading, simple language. With most of the essays driven by personal stories, the author ably renders them accessible to a wide spectrum of readers from the scholarly to the journalistic and the general. The pieces are grouped according to the topics, with the language essays starting the book, followed by thought, existential, and art essays. In tune with the adage the personal is political, Mwanaka lets the personal drive these essays as he tries to investigate and conversationally navigate his thoughts, beliefs, feelings and experience on language, existence and art. This is an invaluable contribution to the academic establishment, social theorists, linguists, literary theorists, journalists, activists and the general readership.
Some 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.
This book examines the concept of the democratization of governance in universities in Kenya with particular emphasis on students involvement in governance processes and decision making. Data were collected from members of the student community utilizing a structured self-administered questionnaire and from purposively selected key informants and focus group discussants drawn from Kenyatta University (representing the public sector) and the United States International University (representing the private sector). The guiding argument for the study was that shared governance, one of the principles of good governance, is critical in enabling the universities to deliver their visions and the missions effectively. The results revealed that while in principle, Kenyan universities have embraced democratic governance in which all stakeholders, including students, have a role to play, in practice they continue to violate the core principles of good governance, particularly shared governance. Specifically, students, who are major stakeholders in university education, are largely excluded from significant structures of governance thereby limiting their influence and participation. Although their representation is mainly provided via student self-governance organs (unions, associations and/or councils), their effectiveness is undermined considerably by the lack of trust and confidencec of the student body and the unending manipulation by top university administrators and external political actors. Student active involvement in decision making is mainly confined to lower levels such as the school/faculty and departmental/programme. The authors call for a paradigm shift in the involvement of students in the governance of universities in ways that discourage the current culture of tokenism and political correctness that characterizes public and private universities in Kenya.
There are milliards of off beam assumptions that Africa will always remain immobile in development of whatever type. This pseudo take has mainly been propounded by Western thinkers in order to dubiously make Africans internalise and reinforce this flimsy and flimflam dependency. Africa needs to embark on paradigm shift; and tweak and turn things around. Africa has what it take to do so quickly, especially now that new economic powers such as China and India are evolving as counterweight to the West. Shall Africa use these new economic forces to its advantage based on fair and win-win cooperation? To do so, Africa must make sure that it does not slink back into business as usual vis-a-vis beggarliness, dependence, frailty, gullibility, made-up backwardness, monkey business, and pipedreams, not to mention the nasty and narcissistic behaviours of its venal and navel-gazing rulers. Verily, Africa needs, inter alia, to use its God-given gifts, namely, immense resources, young population, abundance of vast and unexploited amounts of land. Equally, Africa must, without equivocation, invest copiously and earnestly in its people, the youth in the main. Most of all, Africa needs to shy away from all colonial carryovers and encumbrances. This volume shows many ways through and by which Africa can inverse the current imbroglio-cum-no-go it faces for the better; and thereby actualise the dream of being truly independent and prosperous.
The Ways We Stretch Toward One Another is a collection of essays on the work of Pamela Reynolds. The essays take cues from Reynolds decades-long contributions to the field of anthropology in different ways. The authors weave Reynolds groundbreaking scholarship on the anthropology of childhoodof labour, of family, of resistance, justice, war and sufferingthrough the terms of their own work, in places and contexts that may at first appear quite distant from the villages of Zimbabwe and townships of South Africa that feature in Reynolds ethnographies. The Ways We Stretch Toward One Another is about anthropologists stretching in thought and practice toward one another, between generations, toward the people encountered in the field, through worlds entered and past, and how, in turn, these worlds lean into our own. At the core of each essay is a question about how we learn, how we pass lessons on, how we assume the mantle of anthropology for understanding the contemporary worldsomething that often requires folding intellectual friendships into the tools of our practice. The Ways We Stretch Toward One Another demonstrates how a master anthropologist has come to shape the priorities of others, in terms that are both creative and aware. Contributors: Thomas Cousins, Stefanos Geroulanos, Todd Meyers, Pamela Reynolds, Fiona Ross, and Vaibhav Saria; and a Foreword by Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Words like 'colonialism' and 'empire' were once frowned upon in the U.S. and other Western mainstream media as worn-out left-wing rhetoric that didn't fit reality. Not anymore! Tatah Mentan observes that a growing chorus of right-wing ideologues, with close ties to the Western administrations' war-making hawks in NATO, are encouraging Washington and the rest of Europe to take pride in the expansion of their power over people and nations around the globe. Africa in the Colonial Ages of Empire is written from the perspective that the scholarly lives of academics researching on Africa are changing, constantly in flux and increasingly bound to the demands of Western colonial imperialism. This existential situation has forced the continent to morph into a tool in the hands of Colonial Empire. According to Tatah Mentan, the effects of this existential situation of Africa compel serious academic scrutiny. At the same time, inquiry into the African predicament has been changing and evolving within and against the rhythms of this 'new normal' of Colonial Empire-Old or New. The author insists that the long and bloody history of imperial conquest that began with the dawn of capitalism needs critical scholarly examination. As Marx wrote in Capital: 'The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. These idyllic proceedings are the chief moment of primitive accumulation.' Africa in the Colonial Ages of Empire is therefore a MUST-READ for faculty, students as well as policy makers alike in the changing dynamics of their profession, be it theoretically, methodologically, or structurally and materially.
How really worth are the African endogenous knowledge and know-how? Why and how can we promote this inheritage, while the so-called western scientific model looks like the best means of knowing and mastering the world? This book answers these questions by examining ifa, a West-African system of knowledge and practices which a narrow knowledge reduces to a fanciful divinatory art, an art then logically 'perceived as inconsistent and theoretically useless'. Yet, more than a divinatory art, ifa, when we submit it to analysis, appears to be an organized set of knowledge and researches, a science in the making. What makes us really think that way is the intellectual vocation that defines ifa, the rigor of the logical operations that it implies and which recalls in one way or the other the game of implicit mathematics, the objectivity requirement which is valued by the actors of the system and rests on a genuine critical tradition. This opinion is also based on the weight of myths upon which ifa rests and which constitute an important granary where a prominent set of knowledge is packed. Beyond the establishment of the consistency and the limitations of ifa, this book has strived to define a 'method' of examination and validation of the knowledge which has emerged out of the official scientific system. In fact, the questions which arise from it are finally intended to give a new foundation to philosophy of sciences and to epistemology.
Thorns and Roses: A Play
(2017)
'When a pen which drips woman, academic, mother, wife, teacher and administrator proposes to visit the stage, we expect the product to be as complex as the person. And we will be entirely justified in our expectation given that the stage more often than not is that place which captures and dramatizes our core selves in all their complexity. Thorns and Roses is produced by just that kind of pen. But in spite of her multi-layered identity, Frida Mbunda has succeeded in writing a play whose greatest attractions lie in its unassuming, down-to-earth appeal. It is the story of a single-parent home where a mother dedicates her life to her loving but vulnerable single daughter. As its title suggests, the play employs the allegorical archetype to colour the stage with characters and issues of immediate relevance. Womanhood is at the centre of Mbunda's dramatic quest. She knows that being a woman means being exposed to the attractions of shortcuts to happiness.' - Professor George Nyamndi, novelist, playwright and literary scholar, University of Buea, Cameroon.
Emotional Pain
(2017)
This is a book on the state of social anthropology as an academic discipline in contemporary Zimbabwe. The authors are frustrated and disheartened by a problematic visibility and sluggish growth of the discipline in the country. The book makes an important claim that the future and vibrancy of anthropology in Zimbabwe, lies in how well anthropologists in the country and in the diaspora are able to join efforts in articulating, debating and enhancing its relevance and vitality. The book provides critical overview and nuanced analyses of the role and continued relevance of the discipline in reading and interpreting the social unfolding of everyday life and dynamism. It is a vital text for understanding and contextualising histories and trends in the development of social anthropology in Zimbabwe and how anthropologists in the country navigate the tumultuous waters and struggles that have engrossed the discipline since colonial times. The book has the capacity to generate added insights and influence national, continental, and global debates and trends in the field.
Poverty remains a thorny and topical challenge and research topic to scholars and researchers on African development. Scholars in the Global North have since the Second World War sought to research poverty and underdevelopment in Africa, postulating what they think are the major causes of insipid and abject poverty in the continent, but with little or no success on how to solve the poverty enigma. Sadly, little research and homework have been done by scholars in context (in Africa) on why there seems to be more production rather than eradication of poverty and vulnerability in Africa and among Africans. This book is born out of the realisation for the need for both scholars on the ground and outside Africa to earnestly interrogate and reflect on the poverty situation that continues to haunt the people of Africa and rattle the conscience of the world at large. With contributors from across the continent and beyond, the volume offers a balanced and rigorous, multi-faceted analysis of Africa's poverty and vulnerability from a rich tapestry of perspectives. The volume is handy to scholars and students in the fields of African and development studies, as well as to students of Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science and Policy Studies.
How come Africa is so underdeveloped when it is one of the richest continents on earth? The present volume is an attempt to theorise Africas [under-]development with a view to providing a sustainable, enduring framework of operations that will arrest the predicament of the continent while taking it forward from its current passivity. The volume rethinks and re-imagines a number of externally imposed problematic mechanisms used (un-)consciously in Africa, with the intention of raising awareness and fostering critical thinking in scholars of African development. The book is a pacesetter on how to think and research Africas [under-]development. It is also an invaluable asset for social scientists, policy makers, development practitioners, civil society activists and politicians.
How does a peoples music reflect their history, their occupations, cultural beliefs and values? These are the core questions that this book addresses in relation to the Aawambo people of Namibia. The author, herself born and bred in Namibia, brings to the fore the nuanced views of different people, describing their personal musical experiences past as well as present. This is the first time that the music and stories of contemporary Namibian musicians is shared alongside those of the elderly. Similarly, it is the first time that some of the traditional Aawambo dances are analysed and described, abundantly illustrated with colourful photographs and several songs. Based on years of personal research, this book will appeal to research scholars, students and other interested readers alike, since its style is accessible but detailed, personal yet objective. Recommended for all those interested in culture, anthropology, the arts, and Namibian studies.
This book is about how extreme situations appearing to have a destructive potential can actually be used to produce meaningful individual and social lives. It is about the taming of fate. This notion means and accounts for the ability of individuals and communities to rebuild their lives against all odds. The book is based on case-studies that draw from theoretical insights derived from the sociology of disasters. It addresses some limitations of the sociology of risk, chief among which is the rejection of the relevance of the notion of risk to the study of technologically non-advanced societies. The book argues that this rejection has deprived the study of the human condition of an important analytical asset. The book claims that risk is a property of social action which can best be understood through the analytical scrutiny of its role in the historical constitution of social relations.
This book is a biography based on a qualitative ethnographic study of adaptation to climate by Mr Zephaniah Phiri Maseko, an award-winning smallholder farmer from Zvishavane, rural Zimbabwe. Ethnographic data provides insight and lessons of Mr Phiri Maseko and other farmers' practices for rethinking existing strategies for adaptation to climate change. The concept of adaptation is probed in relationship to the closely related concepts of vulnerability, resilience and innovation. This study also explores the concept of conviviality and argues that Mr Phiri Maseko's adaptation to climate hinges on mediating barriers between local and exogenous knowledge systems. The book argues that Mr Phiri Maseko offered tangible adaptive climate strategies through his innovations that 'marry water and soil so that it won't elope and run-off but raise a family' on his plot. His agricultural practices are anchored on the Shona concept of' hurudza'(an exceptionally productive farmer). This book explores the concept and practices of 'uhurudza,'to suggest that the latter-day 'hurudza' (commercial farmer)'as embodied by Mr Phiri Maseko offers an important set of resources for the development of climate adaptation strategies in the region. This study of smallholder farmers' adoption of innovations to climate highlights the 'complex interplay' of multiple factors that act as barriers to uptake. Such interplay of multiple stressors increases the vulnerability of smallholders. The study concludes by arguing that in as much as the skewed colonial land policy impoverished the smallholder farmers, Mr Phiri Maseko nonetheless redefined himself as a latter-day 'hurudza and thus breaks free from the poverty cycle by conjuring ingenious ways of reducing vulnerability to climate. The book does not suggest that Mr Phiri Maseko's innovations offer a silver bullet solution to the insecure rural livelihoods of smallholder farmers; nevertheless, they are a source of hope in an environment of uncertainty. His steely tenacity in the face of a multi-stressor environment is to be treasured.
The Great Lakes region of Africa is characterized by protest politics, partial democratization, political illegitimacy and unstable economic growth. Many of the countries that are members of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) which are: Burundi, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia, have experienced political violence and bloodshed at one time or another. While a few states have been advancing electoral democracy, environmental protection and peaceful state building, the overall intensity of violence in the region has led to civil wars, invasion, genocide, dictatorships, political instability, and underdevelopment. Efforts to establish sustainable peace, meaningful socio-economic development and participatory democracy have not been quite successful. Using various methodologies and paradigms, this book interrogates the complexity of the causes of these conflicts; and examines their impact and implications for socio-economic development of the region. The non-consensual actions related to these conflicts and imperatives of power struggles supported by the agents of savage capitalism have paralysed efforts toward progress. The book therefore recommends new policy frameworks within regionalist lenses and neo-realist politics to bring about sustainable peace in the region.
The Heart of Jacob
(2017)
Jacob prospers as a moneylender and pig merchant by taking advantage of other peoples misfortunes. But when he seeks to exploit the famine afflicting his village Tounga by lending money at high interest rates to poor villagers, he does not reckon what a sacrilege his pigs would commit which give the people an opportunity to feast on his own misfortune. When this happens community gives way to individual desires, and the stomach dictates to the head what it should think and believe in. Reason bends to absurdity and custom bows to bizarre novelty. Life explodes into a sinister mess that points to only one outcome: Jacob and societys ultimate ruin.
My Head Master
(2017)
I first time I saw the man who became my headmaster was when he rode his motorcycle past our house in Tyosa. He was a huge, dark, hairy man with big eyeballs that looked like they could see through anything and often saw through everything. His eyes were so frightening to me that I always trembled whenever he turned them on me. Not only were the eyeballs big, he had a way of baring them in the most frightening manner when he focused them on you. Older people said his father Akut was nicknamed Akut the owner of frightening eyes for pretty much the same reason. His eyeballs were said to be so big as to scare away birds whenever he entered the forest. Some people said they scared away chickens too. So he was called Akut the owner of frightening eyes.... But Akuts son was headmaster and no one dared pass his nickname to his son though he had passed his frightening eyes to the son. No one dared sing songs behind him the way children used to sing behind Akut his father Passing through and growing up in school with Akuts son as the Headmaster, and what it took to grow up in a closely-knit community through the eyes and memory of a pupil is a story that has to be told, the story of any pupil. And this is the story
Yves R. Simon (1903-1961), one of the greatest contemporary philosophers, gives a modern formulation for many classical philosophical concepts such as authority, the common good, and natural law. These topics have received extensive attention from scholars. Simon also discusses the nature of human virtue, moral and intellectual, but this topic has been less studied until now. The idea of virtue, and in our case virtue in political life, runs through Simon's works. Through a close study of Simon's works and the relevant secondary literature, this book explores Simon's definition of virtue in order to highlight its originality, and show how he weaves the need for it into the fabric of three facets of political life, namely, the common good, the virtue of the ruler and the ruled, and the law. These ideas are important for the ruler-ship of any country and especially of developing nations which are populated by sit-tight dictators. Philosophy can be dry and abstract, yet in this case we deal with one of its more practical manifestations.
Bilder von Gesichtern sind immer interpretiert und entworfen. Sie setzen weniger die konkrete Person in Szene als vielmehr das, was an ihr als bedeutsam erachtet wird. Seit Jahrhunderten konzentrieren sich auf dem Gesicht vielfältigste Deutungen, Ansprüche, Wünsche und Zuschreibungen, die einer bündig entwickelten Geschichte des Gesichts im Wege stehen. Das Buch betrachtet religions-, wissens-, literatur- und kunsthistorische Zäsuren, in denen sich ein je neuartiger Bezug von Gesichtszeichen und Bildgebung formiert. Im Fokus stehen Positionen, die das Gesicht demonstrativ ausstellen, es verstellen oder vermeiden und aussparen. Gelöschte, geleerte, verschattete, fragmentierte, verdrehte, rückansichtige Gesichter rühren epistemologisch und ästhetisch an den Rand des Erkennbaren. Sie sind noch als Gesichter erfassbar, als lesbare Oberflächen werden sie jedoch prekär und gehen nicht länger in Gewissheit und Wiedererkennung auf.
A New History of Tanzania
(2017)
Tanzania, the land and the people have been subject of a great deal of historical research, but there remains no readily accessible and concise history of the country. The aim of this volume is to fill that void. A New History of Tanzania takes its name from a lecture series introduced at the University of Dar es Salaam by Professor Isaria Kimambo in 2002. Prior to that, a book titled, A History of Tanzania, had been published in 1969 by East African Publishing House in Nairobi for the Tanzania Historical Association. That book is currently out of print and this is not a reprint. In this book, Prof. Kimambo has been joined by two other colleagues; Prof. Gregory H. Maddox of Texas Southern University, Houston (USA) and Salvatory S. Nyanto, a Tanzanian, Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Iowa (USA); together they have produced an outline history of Tanzania that covers all important aspects from antiquity to the present that is different from and richer than its predecessor. Sources from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, biology, genetics and oral tradition have been used to produce this excellent book.
Wilhelm Fraenger, 1890–1964
(2017)
Der 1731 in Braunschweig geborene Johann Joachim Christoph Bode gehört zu den wenigen Nur-Übersetzern des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, zu deren Leben und Werk sich sowohl Zeitgenossen wie Literaturwissenschaftler des 20. Jahrhunderts vergleichsweise umfangreich geäußert haben. Seine Übersetzungen englischer Romane (Sterne, Goldsmith) werden zu den "Klassikern" der Übersetzungsliteratur gezählt, einzelne Titel werden bis heute in renommierten Buchreihen nachgedruckt.
Civil society is one of several Western political and social concepts that have not traveled successfully to Africa. Revived in response to the search for democracy in Eastern Europe during the late Soviet era, Western donors promoted and funded new civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa, regarding them as an essential grounding for African democratization. Most of these new civil society organizations had little in common with African associational activity. Focusing on the characteristics and behavior of long-standing African organizations would appear a better starting point for developing a useful concept of an African civil society. One candidate worth serious investigation is the Buganda Kingdom Government. This organization violates most distinctions central to Western notions of civil society. Yet it continues to behave like a civil society organization. Its political and conceptual collisions offer guidance toward a useful notion of African civil society and understanding Ugandan politics.
The aim of this book is to provide comprehensive understanding of industrial economics and its applicability to African countries. The book is expected to serve as an intellectual and pedagogical support to teaching. It is a vital resource material for both undergraduate and post-graduate students. The text is also excellent for self-study for all people with a keen interest in the discipline because of the unique approach adopted by the author. Each chapter is arranged pedagogically starting with learning objectives followed by introductory remarks, then content and finally conclusion. Numerous relevant examples, case studies and review questions are provided.
From Antagonism to Re-engagement : Zimbabwe's Trade Negotiations with the European Union, 2000-2016
(2017)
The book interrogates the European Union (EU) - Zimbabwe Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations, covering trade in goods, trade-related rules and development cooperation. The negotiations coincided with EUs motives as the dominant development partner, and Zimbabwes state-stakeholder fault-lines, creating dilemmas in the pursuit of a fair EPA outcome. As a result, the economically weak Zimbabwe signed and ratified an asymmetrical interim EPA (iEPA) with an economically powerful EU in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Meanwhile, direct bilateral re-engagement which eluded the Government of National Unity (GNU), became real following ZANU-PF landslide victory on 31 July 2013, that sufficiently altered the power balance to trigger the process between the former nemesis in support of iEPA domestication, and social and economic development. ZANU-PF government stopped blaming the EU and other western nations for the countrys continued economic under-performance, signaling a softening approach on its part. Similarly, the EU and its member states softened its perception on ZANU-PF leadership leading to resumption and intensification of re-engagement despite failure to implement the Global Political Agreement-related constitutional and democratic reforms, agreed by GNU. This re-engagement was firmly endorsed when the EU and Zimbabwe signed an agreement in July 2015 to normalise bilateral relations and start cooperation.
It Does Matter To Listen is a collection of short anecdotal pieces of writings, spanning different subject areas - including politics, leadership and management - with the purpose of counselling and edifying the present and future generations. It is a must-read for anyone interested in how to go about business in everyday life, at home, at work and during leisure.
Eni and Other Poems
(2017)
Eni kaleidoscopically unveils human intrigues, predicaments and woes. It brings into sharp focus the most dreaded products of cruel oppression, exploitation, and destructionthe worst forms of human degradation and sufferings. However, it also sheds beams of hope, celebrating optimism in the struggle and eventually opening the curtain to the stage of victory of the oppressed and impoverished under the shameless sky.
Collected Plays: 2009 - 2017
(2017)
This collection contains five plays by the South African writer Allan Horwitz: The Pump Room; Comrade Babble; Boykie and Girlie; Jericho; and Book Marks. The plays explore the contradictions and dreams of the new and old South Africa, as well as universal themes that include the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other moral dilemmas.
Saving Water
(2017)
These poems cover many different states of mind and situations and are deeply rooted in South Africa but also travel to other continents. A strong historical consciousness is mixed with different examples of violence and dispossession as well as an awareness of subconscious associations so that the political and the surreal intermingle - the brutalities of war and exploitation are softened by the tenderness of love. Stylistically inventive, it explores news forms while striving for an overall musicality.
Otuzo twOvaherero
(2017)
Otuzo twOvaherero provides valuable information on Ovaherero patriclans and records folklore and praise poems in Otjiherero. Previously, these did not exist in written form. The book attempts to preserve these oral traditions before they disappear. It aims to restore pride to the Ovaherero, particularly in patrilineages that were displaced by the Ovaherero-German war of 1904-1907. Otuzo twOvaherero is structured around the Ovaherero patrilineal descent system (otuzo) which is the basis of the Ovaherero religion Oupwee. The surnames and homesteads that belong to the same patrilineage are grouped together under each patriclan to help the reader to easily trace the homesteads that belong to one patriclan (and thus have a common ancestry). The distinct features of each patriclan are specified in terms of totems, taboos, patriclans which collaborate, and praise poems of homesteads. All the patriclans and praise poems in this book were collected from Ovaherero communities living in Namibia. The author uses the term Ovaherero to include the various groups which speak the common language Otjiherero and which include the Ovahimba, Ovaherero, Ovatjimba and Ovambanderu. This book has the potential to promote unity within the Ovaherero community by showing how families are connected in lineages which trace back centuries.
Die Untersuchungsergebnisse bestätigen in einer ersten Annäherung die Ausgangsthese, dass die Qualifikationsmismatches in Herkunftsberufen bei Zugängen in Arbeitslosigkeit sich
zwischen West- und Ostdeutschland teilweise erheblich unterscheiden, vor allem bei der unterqualifizierten Beschäftigung. Dies scheint in erster Linie ein Ergebnis der unterschiedlichen Arbeitsmarktlege in Ost- und Westdeutschland zu sein, sowie der unterschiedlichen Ausbildungssysteme in der Bundesrepublik und der ehemaligen DDR. Aber auch innerhalb der beiden Gebietseinheiten bestehen Unterschiede bei den Qualifikationsmismatches in unterschiedlichen Herkunftsberufen. Sie deuten erneut darauf hin, dass berufliche Teilarbeitsmärkte unterschiedliche Funktionsweisen und Strukturen aufweisen. Welche Rolle die eingangs genannten Gründe - Unterschiede der beruflichen Qualifikation, in der Ausbildung (Pfadabhängigkeit), der unterschiedlichen beruflichen Beschäftigungssituation, der unterschiedlichen Arbeitsmarktsituation in Ost und West – zur Erklärung dieser Unterschiede spielen und ob noch weitere Ursachen darauf Einfluss haben, können wir hier nicht beantworten. Dazu bedarf es weiterer Untersuchungen. Struktur und Funktionsweise beruflicher Teilarbeitsmärkte auch in ihren räumlichen Dimensionen bedürfen vertiefender Untersuchungen.
'Cape Towns public cultures can only be fully appreciated through recognition of its deep and diverse soundscape. We have to listen to what has made and makes a city. The ear is an integral part of the research tools one needs to get a sense of any city. We have to listen to the sounds that made and make the expansive mother city. Various of its constituent parts sound different from each other [T]here is the sound of the singing men and their choirs (teams they are called) in preparation for the longstanding annual Malay choral competitions. The lyrics from the various repertoires they perform are hardly ever written down. [] There are texts of the hallowed Dutch songs but these do not circulate easily and widely. Researchers dream of finding lyrics from decades ago, not to mention a few generations ago back to the early 19th century. This work by Denis Constant Martin and Armelle Gaulier provides us with a very useful selection of these songs. More than that, it is a critical sociological reflection of the place of these songs and their performers in the context that have given rise to them and sustains their relevance. It is a necessary work and is a very important scholarly intervention about a rather neglected aspect of the history and present production of music in the city.' Shamil Jeppie, Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town
Accident
(2017)
Carol Trehorne's only child, Max, is in ICU with severe burns. Max, a performance artist, has set himself alight. He recovers but it becomes clear that he is planning further performances that will put him at risk of serious injury or death. Carol, a single parent and a GP in a busy suburban practice, is worried that her son is not the genius his friends think he is, but might be on drugs or going psychotic. As she discusses her concerns with her son's psychiatrist, she wonders if her past behaviour, in particular her relationship with the adventurous and anti-social Jack, has influenced Max's determination to use his body as a site of violent art in the pursuit of revelation. Carol cannot accept that Max's self-harm will have any effect other than to add to the meaningless violence in the world. Accident raises questions about what kind of life is worth living and what death is worth dying. It explores the different responses artists and scientists can have to violence and self-destructive behaviour, and throws into sharp relief the difficulties parents face when their children me decisions that appear incomprehensible.
Die Befragung der Betriebe der Region Rhein-Main 2016 liefert folgende zentrale Erkenntnisse: Gegenwärtig befasst sich knapp jeder dritte Betrieb in der Region Rhein-Main mit dem Thema Arbeit 4.0. Unterschiede in der Wahrnehmung und Bewertung von Arbeit 4.0 bei differenzierter Analyse nach Wirtschafts-zweigen: Arbeit 4.0 ist gegenwärtig und zukünftig vor allem in technologieintensiven Wirtschaftszweigen von großer Bedeutung Informations- und Kommunikationsbranche (IKT-Branche), Verkehr und Lagerei, Finanz- und Versicherungsdienstleistungen. Be-triebe, welche Arbeit 4.0 weder gegenwärtig noch zukünftig eine große Bedeutung beimessen, zeichnen sich andererseits durch einen starken Personenbezug (pflegerische oder erzieherische Tätigkeiten) aber auch durch eine starke Ortsabhängigkeit (Produzierendes Gewerbe, Handel) aus. Gegenwärtig und zukünftig hat Arbeit 4.0 für mittelgroße Betriebe die größte Bedeutung. Technische Ausstattung wird in der IKT-Branche und bei Finanz- und Versicherungsdienst- leistern mehrheitlich als sehr gut bis gut eingeschätzt.
Erwarteter Abbau von Arbeitsplätzen in Zusammenhang mit Arbeit 4.0 fällt nach Einschätzung der Betriebe gering aus. Die große Zahl an fehlenden Antworten unterstreicht zudem, wie schwierig es für die Betriebe gegenwärtig ist, die Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf Beschäftigung abzuschätzen. Rund 20 Prozent der Betriebe erwarten eine steigende Flexibilität bei Arbeitsort und Arbeitszeit. Insbesondere Betriebe aus IT-gestützten und wissensintensiven Wirtschaftszweigen erwarten hier Veränderungen. Möglichkeiten der Arbeitsorganisation aber auch der Produktstruktur scheinen maßgeblich dafür zu sein, ob eine prinzipielle Entkopplung von Arbeit und Arbeitsort denk-bar ist. Weiterbildungsaktivitäten in Zusammenhang mit Arbeit 4.0 finden aktuell in etwa jedem zehnten Betrieb statt. Zu-künftige Notwendigkeit für Weiterbildungsaktivitäten wird in rund 17 Prozent der Betriebe gesehen.
Beschäftigungsprognose 2018/2019 für die Region Rhein-Main : IWAK-Betriebsbefragung im Herbst 2017
(2017)
Folgende Beschäftigungstrends in der Region Rhein-Main zeichnen sich für die Jahre 2018 und 2019 ab: Die Gesamtbeschäftigung in der Region Rhein-Main wird bis Ende 2018 voraussichtlich um 2,1 Prozent steigen. Die sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung wird mit 2,0 Prozent ähnlich stark wachsen. Die künftige Beschäftigungsentwicklung verläuft in den Wirtschaftszweigen unterschiedlich. Mit einem Rückgang an Beschäftigung rechnen bis Ende 2018 lediglich die Finanz- und Versicherungsdienstleister. Die Öffentliche Verwaltung sowie das Verarbeitende Gewerbe erwarten ein unterdurchschnittliches Wachstum. Insbesondere die Sonstigen Dienstleistungen, das Gastgewerbe sowie Gesundheit und Sozialwesen, Verkehr und Lagerei, Handel und das Baugewerbe rechnen mit überdurchschnittlichen Beschäftigungszuwächsen bis Ende 2018. Die Unterschiede zwischen der erwarteten Entwicklung der Gesamtbeschäftigung und der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung sind zwischen den Wirtschaftszweigen eher gering. Ausnahmen bilden die Wirtschaftszweige Information und Kommunikation sowie Erziehung und Unterricht, welche bei einem durchschnittlichen Wachstum der Gesamtbeschäftigung von relativ starken Zuwächsen bei sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung ausgehen. Umgekehrt verhält es sich bei den Sonstigen Dienstleistungen und Betrieben aus Gesundheit und Sozialwesen. Jobmotor der Region bleiben die kleineren Betriebe: Bis Ende 2018 sehen Kleinstbetriebe einen Beschäftigungszuwachs von über vier Prozent. Mittelgroße Betriebe erwarten Zuwächse, die etwas über dem Durchschnitt liegen und kleine Betriebe durchschnittliche Zuwächse von zwei Prozent. Großbetriebe gehen tendenziell von unterdurchschnittlichen Beschäftigungszuwächsen aus. Auch mittelfristig erwarten die Betriebe in der Region Rhein-Main einen Anstieg der Beschäftigung; für Ende 2019 wird mit einem Zuwachs von rund fünf Prozent gegenüber Ende 2017 gerechnet. Hierbei ist aber zu berücksichtigen, dass Prognosen über einen längeren Zeitraum auch mit höheren Unsicherheiten verbunden sind. Großbetriebe rechnen tendenziell auch bis Ende 2019 mit einer unterdurchschnittlichen Entwicklung der Beschäftigung. Die kleinsten und die mittelgroßen Betriebe liegen mit ihrer Beschäftigungserwartung deutlich über dem Durchschnitt, kleine Betriebe mit 10 bis 49 Beschäftigten gehen von einer durchschnittlichen Entwicklung aus.
Die Ergebnisse des IAB-Betriebspanels für Hessen zeigen, dass der Anteil der Betriebe, welcher über eine Ausbildungsberechtigung verfügt, 2016 weiter rückläufig war. Zudem bildete im Jahr 2016 weniger als die Hälfte der ausbildungsberechtigten Betriebe aus. Um das Ausbildungspotenzial der Betriebe zu erhöhen, müssten zukünftig nicht nur mehr Betriebe für eine Ausbildungsberechtigung gewonnen werden, sondern auch die Bereitschaft berechtigter Betriebe erhöht werden, sich regelmäßig an dualer Berufsausbildung zu beteiligen
Die Ergebnisse des IAB-Betriebspanels zeigen, dass die Zahl der in Hessen beschäftigten Frauen in den vergangenen 15 Jahren kontinuierlich gestiegen ist. Im Jahr 2016 wurde ein bisheriger Höchststand erreicht. Gleichzeitig wird aber auch deutlich, dass nach wie vor strukturelle Differenzen in der Beschäftigtensituation von Frauen und Männern bestehen: Frauen blieben in qualifizierten Tätigkeiten weiterhin unterrepräsentiert, zugleich waren sie deutlich häufiger in Teilzeit oder befristet eingestellt als ihre männlichen Kollegen. In der Konsequenz zeichnen sich die Beschäftigungsverhältnisse von Frauen seltener durch sichere berufliche Positionen und Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten aus.
Für Frauen kann eine Berufstätigkeit in Teilzeit attraktiv sein, vor allem wenn sie Familie und Beruf vereinbaren müssen. Eine Teilzeittätigkeit muss aber nicht zwangsläufig den Interessen der Frauen entsprechen. Teilzeitbeschäftigte haben, hält diese über einen längeren Zeitraum an, nicht nur mit geringeren Lohnzuwächsen zu kämpfen, auch ihre Weiterbildungs- und Karrierechancen fallen deutlich schlechter aus als bei einer Vollzeitbeschäftigung. Ein Aufstocken der Arbeitszeiten könnte demnach vielfach im Interesse der Frauen liegen. Gleichzeitig würden die Beschäftigungspotenziale der Frauen besser genutzt. Gemessen an ihrem Anteil an den Beschäftigten sind Frauen auf der obersten Führungsebene nach wie vor seltener vertreten: 28 Prozent der Posten auf der ersten Hierarchieebene waren 2016 in Hessen mit Frauen besetzt. Insgesamt zeigen die Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels aber auch, dass dieses Verhältnis in den letzten zehn Jahren nahezu unverändert geblieben ist. Auf der zweiten Führungsebene waren Frauen deutlich häufiger vertreten, allerdings kam es auch hier in den letzten Jahren kaum zu Veränderungen. Darüber hinaus lässt sich ablesen, dass sich Frauen in Führungspositionen ungleich auf die Betriebe verteilen: Sie sind häufiger in kleinen Betrieben als in großen Betrieben für Führungsaufgaben verantwortlich. Dabei sind Frauen insgesamt in kleinen Betrieben überproportional stark vertreten. Auch in den Wirtschaftszweigen, in welchen der Frauenanteil an den Führungspositionen besonders groß ausfällt, sind überproportional viele Frauen beschäftigt. An diesen Verhältnissen hat sich in den letzten Jahren kaum etwas verändert. Inwiefern das seit Januar 2016 geltende Gesetz für die gleichberechtigte Teilhabe von Frauen und Männern an Führungspositionen (FüPoG) langfristig einen Unterschied für die Frauen macht, wird die genaue Betrachtung der Entwicklungen in den Führungsetagen der Betriebe zeigen. Die Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels zeigen darüber hinaus, dass sich eine weiblich dominierte Betriebsführung nicht zwangsläufig positiv auf das betriebliche Engagement zur Verbesserung der Chancengleichheit von Frauen und Männern auswirkt. Ist aber der Frauenanteil unter den Beschäftigten groß, so werden häufiger Maßnahmen zur Förderung einer besseren Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf umgesetzt. Sowohl der Handlungsdruck in den Betrieben als auch staatliche Förderprogramme scheinen das Engagement der Betriebe zu beeinflussen
Das IAB-Betriebspanel ist eine jährliche Befragung im Auftrag des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (IAB), welche seit 1996 bundesweit durchgeführt wird. Die Befragung umfasst ein breites Fragenspektrum zu einer Vielzahl beschäftigungspolitischer Themen, wobei ein Standard-Fragenprogramm jeweils um aktuelle Themenschwerpunkte ergänzt wird. Für Hessen können dank der Finanzierung durch die Landesregierung und die Regionaldirektion Hessen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit sowie des Europäischen Sozialfonds seit 2001 länderspezifische Auswertungen vorgenommen werden. Die jährliche Befragung stellt aktuelle und repräsentative Daten bereit und gestattet Betrachtungen im Zeitverlauf, auf deren Grundlage sich konkrete Maßnahmen entwickeln und verwirklichen lassen. Die vorliegende Kurzfassung dokumentiert die zentralen Ergebnisse der Befragungswelle des Jahres 2016 mit Fokus auf folgende zentrale Facetten betrieblicher Personalpolitik: die Strategien zur Erschließung ungenutzter Personalressourcen, die Frauenbeschäftigung und Chancengleichheit, das Engagement der Betriebe in der dualen Berufsausbildung und das betriebliche Weiterbildungsverhalten. Zudem werden ausgewählte Daten zur Betriebs- und Beschäftigtenstruktur sowie Angaben zum Thema Automatisierung- und Digitalisierung ergänzt. Wie in jedem Jahr sind die Ergebnisse des IAB-Betriebspanels Hessen 2016 in einem ausführlichen Abschlussbericht dokumentiert. Dieser kann auf den Internetseiten der beteiligten Institutionen herunter geladen werden.
Die Betriebe verfolgen unterschiedliche Strategien, um ihren Arbeitskräftebedarf zu decken. Die Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels Hessen geben Auskunft über einige der Handlungsmöglichkeiten der Betriebe. Neben einer geplanten und gezielten Vorbereitung von Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmern auf neue Aufgaben, kann unternehmensintern bei Personalengpässen auch mit einer Ausweitung von Beschäftigung reagiert werden. Angesichts einer weiter steigenden Teilzeitquote, wobei Frauen besonders betroffen waren, scheint die Ausweitung der Beschäftigung von Teil- auf Vollzeit für die Betriebe bislang keine große Relevanz bei der Deckung ihres Personalbedarfs zu haben. Keinen großen Bedarf signalisierten die Betriebe darüber hinaus an der Entfristung von befristeten Arbeitsverhältnissen. Denkbare Erklärungen könnten sein, dass entweder keine unbefristeten Arbeitsverträge angeboten werden konnten oder sich der Nutzen einer Befristung für die Betriebe als größer herausstellte als eine Entfristung. Neben unternehmensinternen Maßnahmen, wie Umstrukturierung oder Ausweitung von Beschäftigung, steht den Unternehmen eine Vielzahl weiterer Wege offen extern nach Personal zu suchen. Einer davon ist die gezielte Gewinnung und die Beschäftigung von Personen aus dem Ausland. Ihr Anteil an der Gesamtbeschäftigung belief sich 2016 in Hessen auf zehn Prozent. Im Verhältnis zur Gesamtbeschäftigung wiesen sie einen geringeren Anteil an den qualifizierten Tätigkeiten auf und waren hauptsächlich in Groß- und Dienstleitungsbetrieben beschäftigt. Ein Viertel dieser Personen war, nach Aussage der Betriebe, in den letzten Jahren nach Deutschland gekommen. Zählte ein Betrieb ausländische Arbeitskräfte zu seinen Beschäftigten, bestätigte er häufiger Integrationsmaßnahmen zu planen oder umzusetzen. Neben fachlichen Voraussetzungen entscheidet der Eindruck den die Betriebe von den Bewerberinnen und Bewerbern im Bewerbungsprozess erhalten maßgeblich über ihre Jobchancen. Dies gilt, nach Aussage der Betriebe, auch für Langzeitarbeitslose. Ein erfolgreich absolviertes Praktikum oder die Empfehlung durch Dritte erhöhen zudem die Chancen der Langzeitarbeitslosen in Bewerbungsverfahren berücksichtigt zu werden. Die Nachfrage nach sofort gesuchten Arbeitskräften fiel 2016 das dritte Jahr in Folge relativ groß aus. Kleine Betriebe in Hessen meldeten, gemessen an ihrem Anteil an der Gesamtbeschäftigung, einen großen ungedeckten Bedarf, wohingegen die Großbetriebe einen geringen Anteil an den unbesetzten Stellen aufwiesen. Dabei haben Kleinbetriebe bei der Personalsuche prinzipiell mit zwei Handicaps zu kämpfen: Ihrer im Vergleich zu den Großbetrieben geringeren Attraktivität und den im Durchschnitt wenigen Suchwegen, die sie pro Stellenangebot nutzen (vgl. Dietz et al. 2013). Dieser Sachverhalt spiegelt sich auch in den größeren Schwierigkeiten der kleinen Betriebe Fachkraftstellen zu besetzen: Der größte Anteil an den offenen Stellen für qualifizierte Tätigkeiten entfiel 2016 auf die Kleinstbetriebe. Dabei wurden im Vergleich zum Vorjahr insgesamt deutlich weniger offene Stellen für qualifizierte Tätigkeiten gemeldet, der Anteil offener Stellen für einfache Tätigkeiten stieg im Gegenzug an. Nichtsdestotrotz wird, wenn überhaupt, vor allem mit Schwierigkeiten bei der Besetzung von Fachkraftstellen gerechnet. Die Zahl der Neueinstellungen stieg im ersten Halbjahr 2016 auf einen neuen Höchstwert seit Beginn der Panelerhebungen, wobei vor allem in den wirtschaftsnahen und wissenschaftlichen Dienstleistungen überproportional viele Arbeitskräfte neu eingestellt wurden. Etwas mehr als die Hälfte der Neueinstellungen entfiel, wie in den vergangenen vier Jahren, auf qualifizierte Tätigkeiten. Vor allem arbeitnehmerseitig veranlasste Kündigungen waren im ersten Halbjahr 2016 Anlass für die Beendigung eines Arbeitsverhältnisses. Aber auch betriebsseitige Kündigungen und das Ende eines befristeten Arbeitsvertrags waren weiterhin häufig genannte Gründe. Im Vergleich zum Vorjahr schieden insgesamt sechs Prozent mehr Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer aus ihrem Beschäftigungsverhältnis aus. Bei einer gleichzeitig hohen Zahl an Neueinstellungen zeigte sich der hessische Arbeitsmarkt in 2016 relativ dynamisch.
Die betriebliche Ausbildung und die betriebliche Weiterbildung besitzen gleichermaßen eine Schlüsselfunktion bei der Rekrutierung und Sicherung des Fachkräftebestands. Während die Ausbildung ein breites Grundlagenwissen vermittelt, dient die betriebliche Weiterbildung vor allem der spezifischen Anpassungs- und Höherqualifizierung. Die betriebliche Weiterbildung geht aus Sicht der Betriebe mit den Vorteilen einher, dass die Weiterbildungsinhalte rascher, passgenauer und flexibler auf die betrieblichen Bedarfe abgestimmt werden können, als dies in einer mehrjährigen Ausbildung der Fall ist. Insgesamt zeigte sich auf Grundlage der Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels, dass die Weiterbildungsbereitschaft der hessischen Betriebe im ersten Halbjahr 2016 weiterhin auf einem vergleichsweise hohen Niveau lag. Besonders in den Dienstleistungsbetrieben und den kleineren Betrieben wurden verstärkt Beschäftigte bei ihrer Weiterbildung durch den Betrieb gefördert. Hieran hatte die relativ gute Ertragslage ihren Anteil, denn die kleinen Betriebe reduzieren ihr Engagement in betrieblicher Weiterbildung bei einer sich verschlechternden Ertragslage. Frauen nahmen insgesamt etwas häufiger als Männer an Weiterbildungen teil: Die Weiterbildungsquote der Frauen, d.h. der Anteil weitergebildeter Frauen an allen beschäftigten Frauen lag vier Prozentpunkte über der Quote der Männer. Die Differenzierung nach Wirtschaftszweigen ergab, dass Frauen in den Branchen, in welchen sie überproportional stark vertreten waren auch besonders häufig an Weiterbildungen teilnahmen. Dabei handelte es sich um diejenigen Branchen, die sich insgesamt durch ein großes Weiterbildungsengagement auszeichneten. Dies betraf hauptsächlich Betriebe aus dem Dienstleistungsbereich. Die Entwicklung der letzten Jahre zeigt darüber hinaus, dass sowohl Beschäftigte für qualifizierte als auch für einfache Tätigkeiten verstärkt in ihren Weiterbildungsbestrebungen gefördert wurden. Weiterbildung als wichtige Strategie, um auf lange Sicht wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben, scheint in den Betrieben mittlerweile fest verankert zu sein. Beschäftigte in einfachen Tätigkeiten profitierten im vergangenen Jahr am stärksten von diesem Trend. Dennoch bleibt weiterhin ein großer Abstand in der Weiterbildungsbeteiligung der beiden Beschäftigtengruppen bestehen. Das bedeutet aber auch, dass die Betriebe Potenziale in der unterrepräsentierten Tätigkeitsgruppe der einfach Beschäftigten zukünftig in noch größerem Ausmaß aktivieren und nutzen könnten. Die Präferenzen der Betriebe für bestimmte Weiterbildungsformate haben sich kaum verändert: Externe Kurse waren auch 2016 wieder die beliebteste Art der Weiterbildung. Die als deutlich flexibler angesehene Form der Weiterbildung am Arbeitsplatz verlor dahingegen etwas an Bedeutung.
Betriebliche Personalpolitik in Hessen 2016 : Abschlussbericht des IAB-Betriebspanels Hessen 2016
(2017)
Die Innovations- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines Betriebs hängt wesentlich von den Kompetenzen und dem Wissen der Beschäftigten ab. Insbesondere in einer auf Wissen und Dienstleistungen basierenden Wirtschaft gelten Kompetenzen als entscheidender Wettbewerbsfaktor (vgl. Kauffeld 2016). Im Mittelpunkt betrieblicher Personalpolitik wird daher neben der Gewinnung und Bindung qualifizierter Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter verstärkt der Erhalt ihrer Leistungsbereitschaft und Leistungsfähigkeit stehen. Insbesondere die demografische Entwicklung stellt die Betriebe zunehmend vor die Herausforderung, Fach- und Führungsstellen adäquat besetzen zu können. Betriebliches Kompetenzmanagement, ihr Engagement in dualer Berufsausbildung sowie die Förderung betrieblicher Weiterbildung gewinnen in diesem Zusammenhang an Bedeutung. Eine weitere Möglichkeit auf den Rückgang an Erwerbspersonen zu reagieren, stellt die Erschließung und Bindung bislang nicht ausreichend genutzter Personalressourcen, wie beispielsweise internationaler Fachkräfte, Älterer, Frauen, Arbeitsloser oder Geflüchteter dar. Dabei nimmt die Vielfalt in den Belegschaften unweigerlich zu. In Folge wird sich betriebliche Personalpolitik noch stärker als bisher mit den Rahmenbedingungen verschiedener Lebensphasen der Beschäftigten wie beispielsweise der Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Pflege, aber auch mit einer stärkeren Internationalisierung der Belegschaften auseinandersetzen müssen. Vielfalt als Chance zu erkennen, erfordert dabei von den Betrieben einen aktiven und reflektierten Umgang mit dem Thema (vgl. Jablonski 2016). Darüber hinaus ist zu erwarten, dass sich mit fortschreitender Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt die Möglichkeiten der Betriebe – sowie der Beschäftigten – Arbeitszeiten und Arbeitsorte zu flexibilisieren, verändern werden. Hierin besteht für die Betriebe aktuell und zukünftig eine personalpolitische Aufgabe. Der Einsatz moderner digitaler Technologien geht aber auch mit der Erwartung einher, dass sich Arbeitsprozesse und Arbeitsorganisation in den Betrieben verändern werden. Betriebe sind daher herausgefordert sich vorausschauend mit den sich wandelnden Kompetenzanforderungen auseinanderzusetzen und entsprechende Qualifizierungen zu ermöglichen (vgl. Bennewitz et al. 2016). In den vier Einzelreporten zum IAB-Betriebspanel Hessen 2016 wurden folgende zentrale Facetten betrieblicher Personalpolitik genauer beleuchtet: das Engagement der Betriebe in der dualen Berufsausbildung, die Beschäftigungssituation von Frauen und Frauen in Führungspositionen, Möglichkeiten der Personalrekrutierung, offene Stellen, Neueinstellungen und Personalabgänge sowie das betriebliche Weiterbildungsverhalten. Mit dem vorliegenden Abschlussbericht werden die Ergebnisse aus den Einzelreporten zusammengeführt und um ausgewählte Daten zur Betriebs- und Beschäftigtenstruktur sowie um Angaben zum Stand der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Automatisierung und Digitalisierung ergänzt. Ziel des Berichtes ist es, aktuelle und repräsentative Daten zur betrieblichen Personalpolitik in Hessen 2016 bereitzustellen.
That Kind of Door
(2017)
When African Theology was first formulated, women played just a small role. In 1989 Mercy Amba Oduyoye set out to change this by creating the Circle of Concerned African Theologians in order to them a voice. The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians is an African Baby, born in an ecumenical surrounding. Though there were other movements addressing the issue of gender inequalities in church and society, circle theologies are distinct from other women's liberation movements in that they are theologies formed in the context of African culture and religion. This book traces the Circle history from 1989 to 2007.
The Love Sheet
(2017)
The title should have warned me. On reading the title poem, I realise any of the poems is a gateway into this passion with compassion, into a garden whose fragrances colour every sound lovers make when words have to cope. Make the lovers poets, see how each facet is etched, each jewel worked and polished. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Hugh Hodge
Ivory Stars is Tanzanias first ever all-girls football team, but what makes this team even more unique is that they are people with albinism. Disregarded by society, the team is determined to show the world that they wont be held back. As International Albinism Awareness Day approaches, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro would defy stereotypes and prove that they are extraordinarily capable. Join Tatu, the team leader, and the Ivory Stars on their quest to reach the summit of the highest peak in Africa. Find out whether their determination will meet the challenges ahead. How will they manoeuvre through the twists and turns that lie in wait for them? What would it mean for them if they failed?
'It is my duty to take the message of revolt to other[s]. is is the only way to liberate the victims of suffering and slavery,' Nazmi Durrani quotes W.L. Sohan in this book. Resistance to imperialism in pre-independence Kenya by progressive South Asian Kenyans propelled the Kenyan liberation struggle to new heights. They were active in almost every field, from publishing progressive newspapers to supplying arms and material to Mau Mau. Liberating Minds consists of biographies of progressive South Asian Kenyans written by Nazmi Durrani. Originally published in Gujarati in the 1980s, they are available here in English for the first time, together with the original Gujarati. Also included is Naila Durrani's 1987 conference paper, 'Kenya Asian Participation in People's Resistance,' while Benegal Pereira introduces Eddie H. Pereira (1915-1995) and his resistance letters to the Colonial Times Newspaper.
In this collection, Doh straddles the Atlantic with voices that doubt, question, and lament the black predicament; voices that evoke the wisdom of Africa's cultural values in a manner reminiscent of the continent's orality. Like the echoing of the talking drums in the forests and the savannahs, these voices acknowledge the challenges and vexing truths of the hour: the plight of a people that have been buffeted repeatedly by waves of invasion, deceit, and betrayals, yet against which onslaught they remain standing, frighteningly tall in dignity and integrity.
The publication is the latest in the African Studies in Russia series of compilations and contains full articles and annotations of the most important - from the point of view of editors - works of Russian Africanists over a certain period. The authors work at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).The present issue covers the years 2014 to 2016 and consists of two sections. The first section presents conceptual articles on Africa published in authoritative journals. The second section offers synopses of books by Russian authors on economics, cultural anthropology, social and political development, gender studies, and international relations of African countries.The main objective of the triennial series of compilations is to introduce new findings of Russian Africanists to interested foreign scholars who do not speak Russian.
Lament for Kofifi Macu
(2017)
Angifi Dladla is a poet and playwright who writes in both English and Zulu. He is the author of eight plays and a poetry book in Zulu titled Uhambo. For many years he has been a writing teacher and director of Femba Writing Project, publishing school and prison newspapers, and the anthologies Wa lala, Wa sala and Reaching Out: Voices from Groenpunt Maximum-Security Prison. Lament for Kofifi Macu is Angifi Dladla's first collection of poems in English since The Girl Who Then Feared To Sleep (2001).
The volume draws from René Devischs encounters with groups in southsaharan Africa, primarily. The author had the privilege to immerse himself, around the clock, in the Yakaphones activities and thoughts in southwest DR Congo from 1972 to 1974, and intermittently in Kinshasas shanty towns, from 1986 to 2003. The author first examines what sparked his choice to come to Congo, and then to pursue research among the Yakaphones in the borderland with Angola. He then invites us to follow the trajectory of his plural anthropological view on todays multicentric world. It leads us to his praise for honorary doctor Jean-Marc Elas work. He then examines the proletarian outbursts of violence that rocked Congos major cities in 1991 and 1993. These can be read as a settling of scores with the disillusioning colonial and missionary modernisation, along with president Mobutus millenarian Popular Movement of the Revolution. Furthermore, after considering the morose reduction of a major Yaka dancing mask into a mere museum-bound curio in Antwerp, the book unravels the Yakaphones perspectives on spirits and sorcerys threat. It also analyses their commitment to classical Bantu-African healing cults, along with their parallel consulting physicians and healers. By sharing the Yakaphones life-world, the analysis highlights their body-group-world weave, interlaced by the principle of co-resonance. A phenomenological and perspectivist look unfolds the local actors views, thereby disclosing the Bantu-African genius and setting for a major reversal of perspectives. Indeed, seeing 'here' from 'there' allows the author to uncover some alienating dynamics at work in his native Belgian Flemish-speaking culture. To better grasp the realm of life beyond the speakable and factual reasoning, the approach occasionally turns to the later Lacans focus on the unconscious desire, the body and its affects. The book addresses students and researchers in the humanities and, more broadly, all those immersed in the heat of the encounter with the culturally different.
Das Projekt regio pro liefert fundierte Informationen über die Entwicklungen auf den hessischen Arbeitsmärkten. Es werden Prognosen für die Entwicklung von Berufen, Qualifikationen und Wirtschaftszweige für das Bundesland Hessen, seine Regierungsbezirke Darmstadt, Gießen und Kassel sowie für alle 26 Landkreise und kreisfreien Städte erstellt. Die Prognosen werden in einem Zweijahresturnus aktualisiert. Aktuellreicht der Prognosehorizont bis zum Jahr 2022 mit dem Jahr 2015 als Ausgangsjahr der Prognoseerstellung. Die Prognosen dienen als Grundlage für informationsbasierte regionale Arbeits- und Fachkräftesicherungsstrategien und zur Information von politischen und wirtschaftlichen Akteuren, Unternehmen, Betrieben und Bildungsträgen auf Ebene des Bundeslandes, der Regierungsbezirke und der Kommunen sowie darüber hinausgehende interessierte Institutionen, Vereine, Verbände und Bürger.
Die Darstellung der Ergebnisse erfolgt entlang der definierten Handlungsfelder. Dabei werden stets das Ziel des Handlungsfeldes sowie die Teilziele in den Untergliederungen eines jeden Handlungsfel des wiedergegeben. Dem folgt die Darstellung der Datengrundlage, die zur Abbildung der bisherigen Aktivitäten und zur letztlichen Bewertung der Zielerreichung herangezogen wurde. Es schließt sich die detaillierte Darlegung des Umsetzungsstandes im jeweiligen (Teil‐) Handlungsfeld an. Dabei werden jeweils die in Bezug zum definierten Ziel stehenden Entwicklungen und Aktivitäten im Betrachtungszeitraum zwischen dem Jahr 2011 und dem Jahr 2015 nachgezeichnet. In Einzelfällen werden auch Betrachtungsjahre vor oder nach dem genannten Zeitraum mit einbezogen oder es werden nur einzelne Zeitabschnitte innerhalb des Betrachtungszeitraums in die Analyse mit einbezogen. Solche Einschränkungen sind stets explizit sichtbar gemacht und werden begründet, wobei die Gründe zumeist im Bereich der Datenverfügbarkeit liegen oder sich aus der Sachlage heraus keine sinnvolle Alternative ergibt. In zahlreichen Handlungsfeldern erfolgt neben der Bezugnahme auf Primär‐ und Sekundärdaten zudem eine rahmende Einschätzung von Experten/innen, um Entwicklungen in ihrer Detailtiefe richtig einordnen und bewerten zu können. Sofern möglich, wird stets Bezug genommen auf quantitatives wie auch auf qualitatives Datenmaterial. Einzelne Handlungsfelder lassen die Bezugnahme auf quantitative Daten nicht zu, sei es, dass keine entsprechenden Daten vorliegen, sei es, dass aus der Sachlage heraus eine Quantifizierung nicht sinnhaft ist. In diesen Fällen wird auf einer entsprechend breiteren qualitativen Datenlage aufgebaut. Die Darstellung zu jedem (Teil‐)Handlungsfeld wird im Anschluss an die Abbildung der erfolgten Aktivitäten und Prozesse unter einem bewertenden Fokus resümiert. Dabei erfolgt eine Bewertung unter drei Gesichtspunkten: a.) Wurde das Ziel bzw. wurden die Ziele im definierten Umfang erreicht?; b.)Sofern das Ziel / die Ziele nicht erreicht wurden, inwiefern gelang eine Teilumsetzung und welche Gründe standen gegebenenfalls einer vollumfänglichen Zielerreichung im Wege?; c.) Lassen sich Entwicklungen und Trendanzeichen feststellen? In einigen wenigen Fällen sind die Zielsetzungen verschiedener (Teil‐) Handlungsfelder derart ähnlich gelagert und ist im Zuge der Darstellung und Bewertung ein Rückgriff auf die gleichen Datenquellen unumgänglich, so dass diese (Teil‐)Handlungsfelder im vorliegenden Bericht gemeinsam dargestellt werden. An den betreffenden Stellen ist das beschriebene Vorgehen jeweils explizit sichtbar gemacht.
This report compares the business operations of over 2,000 South Africans and refugees in the urban informal economy and systematically dispels some of the myths that have grown up around their activities. First, the report takes issue with the perception that South Africans are inexperienced and unmotivated participants in the informal economy. Many have years of experience and have successfully grown their businesses. Second, it contests the view that refugees enjoy a competitive advantage because they come to South Africa with inherent talent and already honed skills. On the contrary, over 80% of those surveyed had no prior informal sector experience and learned their skills on the job and after coming to South Africa. Third, the report shows that there is fierce competition in the urban informal sector between and within the two groups. However, business competition between refugees and South Africans is mitigated by the fact that they tend to dominate different sections of the informal economy with South Africans dominant in the food sector and refugees in the household products and personal services sectors. Finally, the report takes issue with recent arguments that all informal sector businesses are equally at risk from robbery, extortion and other crimes. It shows that South Africans are affected but that refugees are far more vulnerable than their South African counterparts. The report therefore confirms that xenophobia and xenophobic violence are major threats to refugees seeking a livelihood in the informal sector, especially if they venture into informal settlements.
One of the defining characteristics of many large cities in the rapidly urbanizing global South is the high degree of informality of shelter, services and economic livelihoods. It is these dynamic, shifting and dangerous informal urban spaces that refugees often arrive in with few resources other than a will to survive, a few social contacts and a drive to support themselves in the absence of financial support from the host government and international agencies. This report addresses the question of variability in economic opportunity and entrepreneurial activity between urban environments within the same destination country - South Africa - by comparing refugee entrepreneurship in Cape Town, South Africas second largest city, and several small towns in the province of Limpopo. The research shows that refugee entrepreneurial activity in Limpopo is a more recent phenomenon and largely a function of refugees moving from large cities such as Johannesburg where their businesses and lives are in greater danger. The refugee populations in both areas are equally diverse and tend to be engaged in the same wide range of activities. This report shows that different urban geographies do shape the local nature of refugee entrepreneurial economies, but there are also remarkable similarities in the manner in which unconnected refugee entrepreneurs establish and grow their businesses in large cities and small provincial towns.
This report examines the impact of xenophobic violence on Zimbabweans who are trying to make a living in the South African informal sector and finds that xenophobic violence has several key characteristics that put them at constant risk of losing their livelihoods and their lives. The businesses run by migrants and refugees in the informal sector are a major target of South Africa's extreme xenophobia. Attitudinal surveys clearly show that South Africans differentiate migrants by national origin and that Zimbabweans are amongst the most disliked. This report is based on a survey of informal sector enterprises in Cape Town and Johannesburg; and 50 in-depth interviews with Zimbabwean informal business owners in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Polokwane who had been affected by xenophobic violence. In many areas, community leaders are ineffective in dealing with the violence and, in some cases, they actively foment hostility and instigate attacks. The fact that migrant entrepreneurs provide goods, including food, at competitive prices and offer credit to consumers is clearly insufficient to protect them when violence erupts. However, the deep-rooted crisis in Zimbabwe makes return home a non- viable option and Zimbabweans instead adopt several self-protection strategies, none of which is ultimately an insurance against xenophobic attack. The findings in this report demonstrate that xenophobic violence fails in its two main aims: to drive migrant entrepreneurs out of business and to drive them out of the country.
To understand the policy environment within which refugees establish and operate their enterprises in South Africa's informal sector, this report brings together two streams of policy analysis. The first concerns the changing refugee policies and the erosion of the progressive approach that characterized the immediate post-apartheid period. The second concerns the informal sector policy, which oscillates between tolerance and attempted destruction at national and municipal levels. While there have been longstanding tensions between foreign and South African informal sector operators, an overtly anti-foreign migrant sentiment has increasingly been expressed in official policy and practice. This report describes the strategies being used to turn South Africa into an undesirable destination for refugees, including the setting up of additional procedural, administrative and logistical hurdles; the undercutting of court judgments affirming the right of asylum-seekers and refugees to employment and self-employment; ensuring that protection is always temporary by making it extremely difficult for refugees to progress to permanent residence and eventual citizenship; and restricting opportunities to pursue a livelihood in the informal sector. The authors conclude that the protection of refugee rights is likely to continue to depend on a cohort of non-governmental organizations prioritizing migrant livelihood rights and being willing and able to pursue time-consuming and costly litigation on their behalf.
The primary goal of this study is to present the results of a comprehensive scope of key opportunities and challenges for harnessing migration for inclusive growth and development at the regional level in Southern Africa. The main objectives were as follows: Provide an overview of regional migration stocks and flows identifying regional trends, drivers and impacts from existing research literature and official data; Profile migrant characteristics at the regional level including demographic composition, types of migration and occupational profile; Examine the relevance of multilateral, continental and regional migration instruments, policies, protocols, agreements and forums with a view to identifying actions required to move the regional migration management agenda forward and align with the goal of enhancing migration for inclusive growth and development in Southern Africa; Analyze the key initiatives, opportunities and obstacles to developing a coherent, integrated and rights-regarding approach to migration management including areas of common commitment and ownership, and points of actual and potential conflict and disagreement between states; Conduct a gender analysis of regional migration dynamics including gender dimensions of migration, challenges, dangers and vulnerabilities confronting migrant women and other vulnerable groups, and gender analysis of migration management in Southern Africa; Identify potential programming areas that are weak or underdeveloped.
This book weaves together a rich tapestry on football fandom in Zimbabwe. Based on empirical research focusing on the different dimensions of fan practices and experiences, the book is the result of multiple fieldwork processes with fans in Zimbabwe spanning a period of eight years including desk research, interviews, observation, focus group discussions and netnography. It demonstrates the nexus between social identities and supporting a sports team, highlighting that there are deeper underlying meanings and assumptions to one's support of a sporting team. Manase Chiweshe highlights the various nuances of supporting football clubs. This book provides an alternative way to understanding communities and how sport can be viewed as a serious lens into societal organisations. It offers important insights into how Zimbabweans are also engaged in leisure activities and that play is also part of their life worlds. Given the major focus on poverty, disease and conflict, African stories of intimate play and enjoyment tend to be sidelined. Soccer has the power to bring together or divide communities. In many an African context, just as in Zimbabwe, everyday ethnic and religious rivalries are played out through football matches. It is thus important to capture this space and use football as a way to heal historic and deep-seated conflicts.
Shimmer Chinodya, winner of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region) is one of Zimbabwe's foremost fiction writers. This collection of short stories reveals his development as a writer of passionate questioning integrity. The first stories, 'Hoffman Street' and 'The Man who Hanged Himself' capture the bewildered innocence of a child's view of the adult world, where behaviour is often puzzling and contradictory; stories such as 'Going to See Mr B.V.' provide the transition between the world of the adult and that of the child where the latter is required to act for himself in a situation where illusions founder on a narrow reality. 'Among the Dead' and 'Brothers and Sisters' look wryly at the self-conscious, self-centred, desperately serious world of young adulthood while 'Playing your Cards', 'The Waterfall', 'Strays' and 'Bramson' introduce characters for whom ambition, disillusion, and disappointment jostle for attention in a world where differences of class, culture, race and morality come to the fore. Finally, in 'Can we Talk' we conclude with an abrasive, lucid, sinewy voice which explores the nature of estrangement. The charge is desolation. Can we Talk and Other Stories speaks of the unspoken and unsaid. The child who watches but does not understand, the young man who observes but cannot participate, the man who stands outside not sure where his desires and ambitions lead, the older man, estranged by his own choices. 'Can we Talk' is not a question but a statement that insists on being heard, and demands a reassessment of our dreams.
Although there is widespread food availability in urban areas across the Global South, it is not correlated with universal access to adequate amounts of nutritious foods. This report is based on a household survey conducted in 2015 in six low-income informal areas in Malawi's capital city, where three-quarters of the population live in informal settlements. Understanding the dimensions of household food insecurity in these neighbourhoods is critical to sustainable and inclusive growth in Lilongwe. The survey findings provide a complementary perspective to the 2008 AFSUN survey conducted in Blantyre, which suggested a level of food security in urban Malawi that was probably more typical of peri-urban areas where many people farm. Given that informal settlements house most of Malawi's urban residents, the Lilongwe research presents a serious public policy challenge for the country's leaders. Poverty is a profound problem in Malawi's rapidly expanding cities. Of particular concern is the poor quality of diets among residents of informal settlements. Precarity of income, reflected in the survey findings of frequent purchasing of staple foods and the need for food sellers to extend credit, appears to be a key driver of food insecurity in these communities. Economically inclusive growth, with better prospects for stable employment and protection for informal-sector workers, appears to be the surest route to improved urban food security in Malawi.
Zimbabwe has witnessed the rapid expansion of informal cross-border trading (ICBT) with neighbouring countries over the past two decades. Beginning in the mid-1990s when the country embarked on its Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP), a large number of people were forced into informal employment through worsening economic conditions and the decline in formal sector jobs. The country's post-2000 economic col-lapse resulted in the closure of many industries and created market opportunities for the further expansion of ICBT. This report, part of SAMP's Growing Informal Cities series, sought to provide a current picture of ICBT in Zimbabwe by interviewing a sample of 514 Harare-based informal entrepreneurs involved in cross-border trading with South Africa.