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Der Zeuge verkörpert eine Schlüsselfigur unserer Kultur und Wissenspraxis, obwohl das mittels Zeugenschaft generierte Wissen immer einen umstrittenen Status hat. In diesem Band werden verschiedene Typen und Formen des testimonialen Wissens diskutiert, kulturhistorische und systematische Perspektiven zusammengeführt und in ihren Verflechtungen zwischen epistemischem Wert und ethischer, politischer, sozialer, künstlerischer und religiöser Bedeutung beleuchtet. Im Fokus stehen dabei vor allem die Praktiken und Handlungsszenarien der Bezeugung, da sich in ihren Konstellationen und Dynamiken die Frage der Glaubwürdigkeit des Zeugnisses und die Optionen zur Etablierung eines Zeugenwissens entscheiden.
Der vorliegende Band möchte mit seinen Beiträgen unter anderem die benannten medien-, genre- und gattungsspezifischen Zusammenhänge von Ästhetiken des Tabuisierten und insbesondere des Tabubruchs beleuchten, so dass der Aufbau des Bandes einer Unterteilung in literarische, (audio)visuelle und theatrale Inszenierungen des Tabus und des Tabubruchs folgt. Nach einer ersten theoretischen Annäherung an den Begriff des Tabus, seine Geschichte und Bedeutungszusammenhänge sowie seine Valenz für die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung werden daher zunächst literarische Inszenierungen verschiedener Tabus und Tabuverletzungen im Vordergrund stehen, während im darauffolgenden Teil Tabus und Tabubrüche in (audio)visuellen Formaten fokussiert werden. Schlussendlich stehen Darstellungen des Tabus und des Tabusbruchs auf der Theaterbühne im Blickpunkt. Der Band geht zurück auf eine im September 2014 stattgefundene und von Studierenden des Masterstudiengangs Komparatistik/Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Paderborn initiierte Tagung zum Thema. Mit großem Engagement haben die Beteiligten eine Konferenz zu einem aktuellen und in den Kulturwissenschaften durchaus breit diskutierten Thema konzipiert und darüber hinaus couragiert die Ergebnisse erster eigener Forschungsprojekte zur Diskussion gestellt. Dieser Band präsentiert in diesem Sinne in der Hauptsache Beiträge von fortgeschrittenen Studierenden, die in diesem Rahmen erste Publikationserfahrung sammeln, darüber hinaus jedoch auch Aufsätze von jungen NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen in der Qualifikationsphase.
Kurt Goldstein zählt zu den herausragenden deutschen Neurologen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bekannt wurde er u. a. durch einen eigenständigen Ansatz der ganzheitlichen Neurologie. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit schenkte er dabei den Kompensationsreaktionen des Gehirns und des ganzen Menschen. In der vorliegenden Studie wird erstmals der Lebensgang dieses jüdischen Arztes in den Jahren 1933 bis 1940 genauer betrachtet.
Zwei der meist zitierten Aussagen zum Thema Bibliotheken liegen zeitlich und räumlich ganz nahe beieinander: Nur wenige Jahre nach dem Tod Goethes wurde in seiner Heimatstadt Frankfurt zu seinen Ehren ein Denkmal aufgestellt, welches der Philosoph Arthur Schopenhauer sehr bewunderte. Vielleicht ist es kein Zufall, dass es ausgerechnet in der Stadtbibliothek stand, die der berühmte Eigenbrötler bei seinen Spaziergängen am Mainufer fast täglich besuchte. Aus ihr wurde später eine der sieben Bibliotheken in Hessen, die heute "regionalbibliothekarische Aufgaben" wahrnehmen. Warum gerade sieben, und warum gerade diese und nicht andere? Und worin genau bestehen diese Aufgaben?
Gilt Schopenhauers Satz über die Bibliothek als Gedächtnis denn auch heute noch, in Zeiten von Digitalisierung und Internet? Eine Bibliothek speichert tatsächlich Mengen an Information, die das menschliche Gedächtnisvolumen weit übersteigen. Ihre Funktion als Wissensspeicher kann sie aber (anders als zu Schopenhauers Zeiten) nur dann behaupten, wenn sie nicht einfach sammelt und bewahrt – das kann heutzutage jede Serverfarm – sondern darüber hinaus auswählt, ordnet und vor allem auch verständlich nach außen vermittelt. Zu Schopenhauers Zeiten noch ziemlich elitäre Büchertempel, stehen wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken und ihre Dienstleistungen heute jedermann offen, ob direkt vor Ort oder online.
Dazu kommt aber bei den Regionalbibliotheken noch eine andere, politische Dimension, die sie von wissenschaftlichen Gebrauchsbibliotheken abhebt: Sie sind Gedächtnisorte. Regionalbibliotheken haben eine identitätsbildende Funktion: Wir - in diesem Fall heißt das: wir Hessen - sind das, woran wir uns gemeinsam erinnern. Die sieben hier vorgestellten Bibliotheken sammeln deshalb arbeitsteilig alle Publikationen aus Hessen wie auch alle über das heutige Bundesland und seine Vorgängerstaaten – Millionen von Einzelstücken. Zusammen mit den Objekten der Museen und den Dokumenten der Archive liefern sie den Rohstoff für das kollektive Gedächtnis der Hessen.
Poetry is fragments of music thrown into the air. The primary job and aim of a poet is to create these musical notes, to play these musical notes, and the wind will take these fragment notes, sounds, musics into the ears of listeners. Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology, Volume 2 is one of those winds among many others. As we all are aware of, when the wind travels it has no boundaries, it collects, it deposits, it mixes things up; you never know where that leaf you see the wind carrying will eventually be deposited, is there another wind, another element that is going to move that leaf to another place... We firmly believe it is a good wind. It will be able to push our poetry making in Zimbabwe into other frontiers. Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology, Volume 2 continues from where we left off with the first Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology we created in 2016. In this Volume 2, we have 77 poems from 30 poets and translators, which include among others; experienced poets, academic poets, street poets, emergent poets, beginning poets, all telling stories associated with what all these poets refer to as home, that is, Zimbabwe. It is an ongoing debate on what is Zimbabwe, what we want our Zimbabwe to be socially, culturally, politically, thus we allowed every opinion space in this anthology, whether us editors agree with them or not. We have poets tackling issues to do with poetry, writing in general, art, place, identity, tradition, struggle, culture, gender, collective understanding, religion, individual, human rights and love, among others.
This poetry anthology offers a feast and face of poetry as it currently is in Uganda. It is all encompassing and presents a variety of writers ranging from seasoned voices to new ones of great promise. The voices are adventurous, reflective, provocative and even sassy. The poets explore with passion diverse themes from the private to the public realm reassuring the reader that poetry is about everything and is perhaps everything. The pages of this anthology pulsate with rhythmic variations that give unexpected pleasure and provoke the reader to be exceptionally alert. This is a welcome and priceless addition to Uganda Poetry Anthology 2000.
Wilhelm Fraenger, 1890–1964
(2017)
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.
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.
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.
In view of the resilience of Africa's underdevelopment, what do Africans make of their determined aspirations for development? The continent of Africa has constantly drawn global attention, most especially for both human and natural evils. Underdevelopment, it appears, is one of the most eminent threatening evils. It has plunged and promises to maintain the majority of Africa in abject poverty, insecurity, and vulnerability. What perpetuates the ghost and gory of underdevelopment in Africa, despite a proliferation of development rhetoric and initiatives? How do ordinary Africans react to repeated talk and claims of development with little evidence of transformation for the better in their material circumstances? This book interrogates the tenacity of underdevelopment amid calls for Africa to rise from its slumber and reclaim its position in global affairs as the mother continent of humankind. It contributes to the ongoing debates on why Africa remains trapped in the clutch of underdevelopment many decades after the purported end of colonialism. The book comes at a critical time in human history; a time when the talk on Africa's [under-]development is louder due to the ravages of economic downturns and dysfunctional conflicts. It poses a challenge to development practitioners, civil society activists, statesmen, economists, political scientists and theorists to rethink and reconsider their role as technocrats, experts and ambassadors of positive change in Africa and the world beyond.
Twelve + one contains interviews with 13 poets from Johannesburg who span a wide range with respect to age, gender, colour and class. Mike Alfred, who has contributed to journals for many years and has published several individual collections of his own work, provides an intimate opportunity for poets to tell both their biographical stories, describe their artistic aims and processes as well compiling a selection of poems which best represent their themes and styles. The result grants the reader a fascinating insight into a key cross-section of South African poets.
One of the fundamental challenges in deconstructing, rethinking and remaking the world from a Pan African vantage point is that some captives have tended to delight in the warmth of the [imperial] predator's mouth. In other words, some captives forget that the imperial predator's mouth gets warm because empire is eating and heating up from prey on the continent. (De-)Militarisation, Transnational Land Grabs and Restitution in an Age of the New Scramble for Africa: A Pan African Socio-Legal Perspective is a book that knocks on key aspects relating to land, militarisation, a PostAfrican World Order and a chaotic Post-God World Order, which require critical scholarly and policy attention in the quest to free Africa from centuries-old imperial depredations. The book carefully navigates the imperial entrapments which are designed to focus African attention only on decolonising African minds without also engaging in the [imperially more unsettling] decolonisation of African materialities.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
The Social Dynamics of Open Data is a collection of peer reviewed papers presented at the 2nd Open Data Research Symposium (ODRS) held in Madrid, Spain, on 5 October 2016. Research is critical to developing a more rigorous and fine-combed analysis not only of why open data is valuable, but how it is valuable and under what specific conditions. The objective of the Open Data Research Symposium and the subsequent collection of chapters published here is to build such a stronger evidence base. This base is essential to understanding what open datas impacts have been to date, and how positive impacts can be enabled and amplified. Consequently, common to the majority of chapters in this collection is the attempt by the authors to draw on existing scientific theories, and to apply them to open data to better explain the socially embedded dynamics that account for open datas successes and failures in contributing to a more equitable and just society.
Through multiple points of resistance, The Repressed Expressed underscores how hard it is to build a community in any nation with no beneficial qualities of hope and transparency. This informative collection of essays highlights that wherever stability and order are lacking, the universal appeal is to express that which is suppressed. Also, like a map or guidebook, The Repressed Expressed indicates how people in such geographical prisons strive to transform their agitation into spiritual and political pathways, free of pain and hurt from, and anger towards a dirty and corrupted world. It thus, underpins discord and brings to the fore the authority's penchant for heaping abuse upon those caused to live in fear. In short, The Repressed Expressed is an impressive compilation of literary evidence informing scholarship on opinions and beliefs relating to repression, its expression, and the immeasurable associated cost.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
The formal scientific communication system is currently undergoing significant change. This is due to four developments: the digitisation of formal science communication; the economisation of academic publishing as profit drives many academic publishers and other providers of information; an increase in the self-observation of science by means of publication, citation and utility-based indicators; and the medialisation of science as its observation by the mass media intensifies. Previously, these developments have only been dealt with individually in the literature and by science-policy actors. The Future of Scholarly Publishing documents the materials and results of an interdisciplinary working group commissioned by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) to analyse the future of scholarly publishing and to make recommendations on how to respond to the challenges posed by these developments. As per the working groups intention, the focus was mainly on the sciences and humanities in Germany. However, in the course of the work it became clear that the issues discussed by the group are equally relevant for academic publishing in other countries. As such, this book will contribute to the transfer of ideas and perspectives, and allow for mutual learning about the current and future state of scientific publishing in different settings.
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.
The African conundrum... is rooted out of the historical, philosophical and cultural bastardisation, imbalances and inequalities which many post-colonial African governments have always sought to address, though with varying degrees of success, since the 1960s. Lamentably, this African conundrum is rarely examined in a systematic manner that takes into account the geopolitical milieu of the continent, past and present. This volume seeks to interrogate and examine the extent of the impact of the geopolitical seesaw which seems poised to tip in favour of the Global North. The book grapples with the question on how Africa can wake up from its cavernous intellectual slumber to break away from both material and psychological dependency and achieve a transformative political and socio-economic self-reinvention and self-assertion. While the African conundrum is largely a result of historic oppression and a resilient colonial legacy, this book urges Africans to rethink their condition in a manner that makes Africa responsible and accountable for its own destiny. The book argues that it is through this rethinking that Africa can successfully transcend the logic of post-imperial dependency.
That Kind of Door
(2017)
The book consists of novel and empirical research in broad areas of technology and curriculum in selected African countries. The central theme of the book is technology and the higher education curriculum. The book consists of case studies from selected African countries, namely, Lesotho; Namibia; Kenya; South Africa; Zimbabwe; Tanzania and Nigeria. These studies confirm that in this contemporary digital era, educational technology is playing an increasingly important role. It has become so ubiquitous and fundamental in the teaching and learning. Higher education sectors across the continent are increasingly compelled to use educational technology to keep up with needs of 21st century students who want to be afforded opportunities to be able to learn in real time, anytime, and on their own terms using opportunities for creative innovation made possible by new information and communication technologies.
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.
The aim of this book is to better understand the phenomenon of HIV in a country that has faced the fullest might of the disease and yet, after first faltering, has made more progress than any other country in the world in its response to HIV. It aims to reflect the complexity of this narrative and the range of widely differing insights by featuring what is likely the largest number of contributors in a single publication on the subject in South Africa, as well as a full spectrum of specialised areas, ranging from high-end science to personal reflections.
Women in Islam explores the complexities of gender relations in Muslim communities in the Horn of Africa and beyond, engaging critically with the social, political and cultural challenges associated with the intersection of Islam and gender. With an eclectic selection of essays, academic papers, opinion pieces and personal narratives punctuated with poetry and art, the journal seeks to spark creative and forward-looking discussions on how to effectively improve the status of women in Muslim societies. Women in Islam is published annually by SIHA, the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa. Issue Three of Women in Islam includes investigations of social issues, profiles of inspiring women, book and film reviews, poetry, and opinion pieces. The dossier on 'Living With Religious Militancy' explores women's experiences in contexts of conflict and extremism, with articles on the dilemma of female political Islamists, a gender-segregated community in Eastern Sudan, and women of Boko Haram. Other articles include stories of Sufi women, the experience of female convert to Islam, Ziba Mir-Hosseini's quest for equality in Islamic law, and reviews of Wadjda and Timbuktu.
This book contains and in-depth study of the Shariah legal system generally, and its practice in Nigeria, in particular from 1956 to 1983. The book covers the meaning and scope of the Shariah: the general and legal precepts; it legal theory and legal practice; the development of Shariah legal practice and legal history in Nigeria.
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.
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.
This collection comprises a diverse and stimulating collection of essays on questions of gender and sexualities, crafted by both established and younger researchers. The collection includes fascinating insights into topics as varied as the popularity of thong underwear in urban Kenya, the complexity of Tanzanian youths negotiation of HIV-cultures, the dialogues between religion and controversial questions in sexualities activism, and the meaning of living as a Zimbabwean girl, who became HIV-positive because her mother had no access to antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy. Some pieces deepen contemporary debates, others initiate new questions. The collection seeks to sustain and invigorate research, policy-making and continentaly-focused thought on difficult, yet compelling, realities.
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 book examines the nexus between youth conflict and the occult drawing its insights from the oil-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria. It sees the occult represented by the Egbesu deity in this conflict as a form of religious belief imbued in this case with the powers of good. Thus, the religious occult is regenerated and re-energised as an idiom of justice and fairness within the Nigerian state by militant youth fighting the forces of the Nigerian state. Ingeniously, the young men simply dug into the cultural repertoire of the people for a hitherto popular expression of justice and perceived source of potency which they felt would not only provide spiritual protection but also pander to the popular imagination of justice. Even against the background prevalent Christianity, the Egbesu does not generate tension in beliefs but responds to the critical exigency of the immediate socio-political milieu of the people.
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.
It has been long overdue to address the principal problems that Africa continues to have. How to bring real African solutions to these problems remains unresolved. Palaeontologists have discovered that Africa is the origin of humanity. Africa has also experienced the commodification of its humanity through slavery, colonialism and apartheid. The African continent has been influenced by a mélange of races, cultures, religions, ethnic nationalities making the project of how the differences can be managed to forestall conflict and promote the unity of the current 54 states to turn the cacophony of noises into a single voice that can protect Africa a difficult challenge. This book on Regenerating Africa: Bringing African Solutions to African Problems addresses why Africans must come together and try to address their own problems. They must look back to the spiritual, struggle and knowledge heritage to re-imagine and innovate a new Africa with leadership, governance, systems and institutions that can address the security and well-being, the employment, social inclusion, poverty eradication and the equality of the people. In fact the key problem to find a solution is how to Africanise those that originated from Africa and those that became settlers with different racial, cultural, religious, linguistic and ethnic variations. How to manage inter-African relations? How the settlers from the colonial legacy, the apartheid legacy, the Arabs in Africa and the varied tribes within Africans can all share being Africanised above all else is a real challenge to bring lasting solutions to Africas enduring problems. This book is one of the few books that addresses the real problems Africa continues to face by suggesting solutions which policy makers and all Africans must learn and never ignore but use to advance a free, united, renascent, proud and dignified independent Africa in this unpredictable time the world is going through. The contributors address in the book how African solutions to African problems in the current global context to create a sustainable African future can be thought, designed and engineered to advance the well-being of people and nature for all. The African Unity for Renaissance series of conferences that over 10 partners contributed to run is the true source for generating the quality papers that have been peer reviewed to constitute the contributions in the book to make African solutions to African problems in reality and not just in talk.
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.
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.
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.
The papers in this volume focus on fiction and theatre in their traditional forms as well as in their encounters with novel and innovative forms and avenues of dissemination. As a cultural practice that emerged from a process of protest and contestation of hegemony, it is understandable that one main concern in African literature and literary criticism is the resistance against the emergence of marginalizing centers in formerly or currently marginalized societies with regard to discourses, aesthetics and media of creation. These new centers that sometimes undermine the strategic/tactical exploitation of the relative advantage procured by each medium run the risk of leading to new forms of stratification that mitigate the import of African and African diasporic literatures. The collection of essays therefore seeks to analyze the representation of pertinent socio-political and historical questions in a variety of postcolonial texts from Africa and the African diasporas, notably the Caribbean islands and the United States of America. However, far from re-writing of history in a way that cedes to conservative worldviews, creative writers and critics simultaneously attempt to chart ways forward for socially all-inclusive futures. In the context of colonial and neo-colonial legacies that seem to forestall any sense of individual and collective self-fulfillment, contributors to this volume examine the pertinence of African fiction and theatre in imagining new vistas of re-conceptualizing the postcolonial condition in ways that re-galvanize the belief in an enabling future.
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.
Pour Qui File La Comete
(2017)
The appearance of a comet in some African beliefs is taken as a bad omen. In the 1960s, appeared in this imaginary land a comet whose shape resembles that of a sword and it can be seen only at dawn. People at once related this appearance with sad events. Soon after the appearance of the comet this land experienced painful events of civil war. Adouma, the main character of the story and son of a Marabout (an Islamic scholar), has attended both schools, Coranic and French. He lived through this troubled period which took place between 1960 and 1990. He waged war and also endured the harms of war. It is an enthralling and moving narrative that combines fantastic story with auto-fiction.
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.
Labour migration from Malawi to South Africa is a 'century-old phenomenon'. It dates as far back as the 1880s following the establishment of diamond and gold mines. In the period up to the 1980s, this migration took either formal or informal nature whereas in the post-1990 period it became exclusively informal, popularly known as selufu in Malawi. This book is an attempt to shed light on both forms of migration over time. By using the case of Mzimba, one of the major labour migration districts in Malawi, Perspectives of Labour Migration shows that migration, especially in the post-1990 period, remains a preoccupation of the different categories of both men and women in selected areas in the country. A cross-section of Malawians continue to regard emigration to South Africa as a means to an end: a way of fulfilling their heart-felt and life-time goals at household and societal levels. Because of their distinguished and unparalleled determination, these labour migrants continue to flock to South Africa in the midst of such challenges as xenophobia, crime, arrests and deportations. The book advances the argument that Malawian labour migrants are purposive and rational human beings who are ready to overcome these challenges, at times using the most improbable means, for example, through the use of mankhwala gha mwabi (luck medicine).
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.
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.
Parading respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa is an intimate and incisive portrait of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape of South Africa. Drawing on her own on background as well as her extended research study period during which she became a band member and was closely involved in its day-to-day affairs, the author, Dr Sylvia Bruinders, documents this centuries-old expressive practice of ushering in the joy of Christmas through music by way of a social history of the coloured communities. In doing so, she traces the slave origins of the Christmas Bands Movement, as well as how the oppressive and segregationist injustices of both colonialism and apartheid, together with the civil liberties afforded in the South African Constitution (1996) after the country became a democracy in 1994 have shaped the movement.
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.