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  • Inside the municipality : locating debates on local government 
    Phadi, Moses; Vale, Peter Christopher Julius (Transformation, 2020)
    The rise of African liberation parties to power in the 1960s brought to the fore ‘questions about the role and position of the African state’ (Doornbos 1990:179, also see Mamdani 1996, Amin 1972). Leaders of newly independent ...
  • Frantz Fanon in the time of mad studies 
    Eromosele, Ehijele Femi (Routledge, 2020)
    Amidst renewed interest in the psychiatric writings of Frantz Fanon, this article reads his work against the background of contemporary mental health advocacy and scholarship. Epitomized in the emergent field of Mad Studies, ...
  • Taking theory seriously … 
    Vale, Peter Christopher Julius; Mare, Gerhard (Public Affairs Research Institute, 2020-12)
    Some years ago, one of us raised an abstract point with one of the denizens of South Africa’s policy community. The aim was not to expose the issue at hand to the rich array of thinking theoretically that has flourished ...
  • Humanitarian crisis in north-eastern Nigeria : responses and sustainable solutions 
    Okunade, Samuel Kehinde; Ogunnubi, Olusola (Wiley, 2022-08)
    Since 2009, the North-Eastern part of Nigeria has been engulfed with the scourge of Boko Haram attacks leading to a severe humanitarian crisis and food insecurity within the region. Studies have shown that in the various ...
  • Lookin back : James Ogude in conversation with Ben Okri : 26 April 2014, University of Pretoria, South Africa 
    Ogude, James (Routledge, 2020)
    No abstract available.
  • Forgiveness and reconciliation in the life and work of Desmond Tutu 
    Maluleke, Tinyiko Sam (Wiley, 2020-11)
    This article explores how mission, forgiveness, and reconciliation have shaped the ministry and work of Desmond Tutu. As much as space permits, it tries to glean the ways in which Tutu has lived out his understanding of ...
  • The militarisation of conservation and occupational violence in Sikumi Forest Reserve, Zimbabwe 
    Mushonga, Tafadzwa (Medknow Publications, 2021-10)
    Discussions around the militarisation of conservation have largely focused on violence meted out against subsistence and commercial poachers in, and around, protected areas. Overlooked is violence experienced by perpetrators ...
  • Dimensions and corollaries of violence in Zimbabwe’s protected forests 
    Mushonga, Tafadzwa; Matose, Frank (Elsevier, 2020-12)
    The militarisation of conservation is intensifying with increasing need to protect wildlife from poaching. Conservation violence is concomitantly escalating, so is the impetus to understand it. This article engages with ...
  • Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems 
    Barrett, Christopher B.; Benton, Tim G.; Cooper, Karen A.; Fanzo, Jessica; Gandhi, Rikin; Herrero, Mario; James, Steven; Kahn, Mark; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Mathys, Alexander; Nelson, Rebecca J.; Shen, Jianbo; Thornton, Philip; Bageant, Elizabeth; Fan, Shenggen; Mude, Andrew G.; Sibanda, Lindiwe Majele; Wood, Stephen (Nature Research, 2020-12)
    Coupling technological advances with sociocultural and policy changes can transform agri-food systems to address pressing climate, economic, environmental, health and social challenges. An international expert panel reports ...
  • Racism en route : an African perspective 
    Maluleke, Tinyiko Sam (Wiley, 2020-01)
    This article argues that in Africa, the nature and advent of racism has to be traced back to the earliest encounters between Africans and Europeans, including the first seven centuries but especially during the slavery and ...
  • What happens when a music video goes viral? Gastrocomedy and prosumer recreations of Timaya’s I Can’t Kill Myself 
    Eromosele, Ehijele Femi (Routledge, 2020)
    This article analyses the circulation of Timaya’s 2019 music video I Can’t Kill Myself as a means of contemplating contemporary media consumption in Nigeria. Beginning with the premise that media forms are best understood ...
  • Tutu in memory, Tutu on memory : strategies of remembering 
    Maluleke, Tinyiko Sam (Southern African Missiological Society, 2019)
    This essay profiles the strategies and (theological) tactics used by Desmond Tutu in the management of painful memory in his own personal life, in his various leadership roles in church and society as well as in his role ...
  • Maarten de Wit 1947–2020 : an appreciation 
    Vale, Peter Christopher Julius (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2020-05)
    No abstract available.
  • Quality adjusting agricultural machinery in South Africa 
    Gandidzanwa, Colleta; Liebenberg, Frikkie; Meyer, Ferdinand; Conradie, Beatrice (Routledge, 2019)
    This paper quality adjusts machinery inputs for South African agriculture. It does this by treating different qualities of machinery as separate inputs. Thus, quality adjustment becomes quantity adjustment when there is ...
  • Of wounded killers and ‘failed men’ : broadening the quest for liberating African masculinities 
    Maluleke, Tinyiko Sam (University of the Western Cape, 2018-07)
    In order to broaden the search for liberating African masculinities, I engage with key and recent works on masculinity within the African context. I explore some of the reasons why scholarship on masculinity in Africa – ...
  • The making of Allan Aubrey Boesak : theologian and political activist 
    Maluleke, Tinyiko Sam (University of South Africa, Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, 2017)
    Although no conventional biography of Allan Boesak has been published, either by himself or others, as far as we are aware, we have enough data and information in various places to make small beginnings of the long overdue ...
  • Wrath from the Gods' : traditional institutions and electoral politics in Bali 
    Gwaibi, Numvi Wallace (Sage, 2017-05)
    This paper examines the 2013 municipal elections in Bali subdivision, North West Cameroon. The ethnography utilises participant observation, semi-structured interviews, document analyses and so forth to unearth strategies ...
  • Through the past into the future : Jean-François Bill - pastor, activist, theologian 8 July 1934 -12 March 2005 
    Duncan, Graham A.; Maluleke, Tinyiko Sam (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2016)
    Jean- François Bill was a significant church leader of the second half of the twentieth century. He was born, raised and educated in South Africa, and he lived, worked and died in South Africa. He possessed a multi-cultural ...
  • How does justice smell? Reflections on space and place, justice and the body 
    Meiring, J.J.S. (Jacob Johannes Smit) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-14)
    Flowing from a joint consultation on Spatial Justice and Reconciliation on 21–22 September 2015, hosted by the Centre for Contextual Ministry and the Ubuntu Research Project of the University of Pretoria, this article ...
  • Shem, Ham, Japheth and Zuma – Genesis 9:25-27 and masculinities in South Africa 
    Meiring, J.J.S. (Jacob Johannes Smit) (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2016)
    The article explores the interpretation and reception of Genesis 9:25-27 and how the so-called ‘curse of Ham’ contributed to the construction of masculinities in South Africa. The impact of the Ham ideology on black ...