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Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa
Item type: JournalsAn accredited, internationally refereed journal that aims to combine ethnomusicological, musicological, music educational and performance-based research in a unique way to promote the musical arts on the African continent. This journal also incorporates book, audio and audiovisual media and software reviews. -
'Bashayi Bengoma': Music, poetics and the 'makhoyane' bow of Eswatini
Item type: Books • Author: Cara Stacey & Vusi SibandzeRecent years have seen a revival of interest in musical bows in Brazil, around the Indian Ocean, and across the African continent. “Bashayi Bengoma - Music, poetics and the makhoyane bow of Eswatini” is the latest contribution to an emerging field of scholarship on musical bows and overtone instruments from southern Africa and beyond. It addresses the lack of literature on the makhoyane bow of Eswatini and a dearth of scholarly research on music from this small southern African country. -
The Omega Wedding: an Enduring Love Story of Bo Imonda
Item type: Books • Author: Amos MalupengaWhen a headline in The Post newspaper, in November 2013, announced that a 98-year-old man in a remote Zambian village of Moole in Mongu District was seeking to remarry his 82-year-old ex-wife, it sparked a “perfect storm” that would capture the heart of a nation. But for Mushiba Imonda, this wasn’t just a news story - it was the final chapter of a 39-year-old mystery. -
Doctors for Tomorrow: Family Medicine in South Africa
Item type: Books • Author: Jannie Hugo & Lucie AllanThe changes taking place within family medicine in South Africa today affect the provision of health care in both public and private sectors. -
Conversations with Memorable Personalities II
Item type: Books • Author: Amos MalupengaWhile previous attempts at recording Zambia’s history have largely involved secondary research or third-party accounts, this series presents an authentic historical record of primary accounts, chronicling the nation’s history directly from individuals who participated in its making. -
Faithful to the Vision: A History of the Grahamstown Teachers’ Training College 1894 –1975
Item type: Books • Author: Eric KellyA child’s primary education is of vital importance. It requires well-trained teachers with a professional approach to their work. Faithful to the Vision is the story of a teachers’ training college which set about preparing teachers of that very calibre. It is the history of the Grahamstown Teachers’ Training College. -
Causatives in Kwa: An intragenetic typology
Item type: Books • Author: Reginald Akuoko DuahIn Causatives in Kwa: An Intragenetic Typology Reginald Akuoko Duah presents a rich description and analysis of the formal types of causative expressions found in the different Kwa languages. Using a variety of language-internal tests, the book brings to light the features which make these languages similar in certain respects and different others. The book represents a fresh approach to the study of serial verb constructions (SVCs) and demonstrates that cause-effect serial verb constructions are a type of causative constructions and that analytic causatives lie outside realm of serial verb constructions. -
‘I Beg to Tell’: Everyday agency in colonial Lagos, 1940–1960
Item type: Books • Author: Tunde Decker‘I beg to tell’ – Everyday agency in colonial Lagos, 1940–1960 foregrounds everyday life as a major component of colonial Lagos history. It is an interdisciplinary study of a segment of neglected historical actors in colonial Nigeria with significant implications for Nigerian and African historiography. It draws insights from anthropology, sociology, social psychology and textual studies, and aims at enriching the research of academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students working on different aspects of African Studies. -
Technological Disruption in Legal Education and Practice: Navigating the complexities and embracing the future
Item type: Books • Author: Carika Keulder (editor)Law schools and faculties are grappling with how to incorporate technology into their curriculum development, and practitioners are confronting unprecedented doctrinal questions raised by AI and digitalisation. Technological Disruption in Legal Education and Practice is a collection of contributions by 13 authors and edited by Carika Keulder that addresses the impact of new digital technologies on the way that law is taught and practiced. -
Levy Patrick Mwanawasa: An Incentive for Posterity
Item type: Books • Author: Amos MalupengaThis book is a great narration of the life story of a great man – an outstanding statesman and a visionary son of Zambia. It is a fascinating account of the life of President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa, SC. This tale, accomplished soon after the untimely death of Levy in August, 2008, constitutes a true refl ection of the life and presidency of Zambia’s third Head of State. Amos Malupenga has, in essence, penned in glaring detail the biography of a revered African leader. -
South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape
Item type: Books • Author: Edited by Laurence WrightSouth Africa's Education Crisis casts light on the context and causes of the education crisis in the Eastern Cape, as well as drawing together original research, commentary and analysis in language education topics by teacher educators from Rhodes University's Institute for the Study of English in Africa and colleagues elsewhere, all of whom have been involved in the in-service education and development of teachers for many years. Although the focus is on the Eastern Cape, many of the issues considered are common to education in rural areas throughout southern Africa and this book will prove useful to educational researchers, education managers, teachers and teacher educators elsewhere in South Africa and beyond. -
We Can: Black Politics in Cradock, South Africa 1948-1985
Item type: Books • Author: Michael S. TetelmanThe author demonstrates the general tensions that dogged activists in the liberation struggle from the 1930s through the 1980s; how sport, church, education and beer hall recreation were used for different political outcomes. He shows how youth incrementally pushed the struggle to higher levels of intensity. There is a moment, about 1983-84, in We Can, when charismatic Cradock teacher-activist Matthew Goniwe managed to get African clergy, youth, and elite to transcend their differences. But a complex youth-based grassroots movement, in various communities guises, as well as a militarized response from the apartheid state, set the agenda for a new South Africa by this time. Tetelman's book adds significant value to South Africa's protest literature. It enhances our understanding of the complexity of struggle at local level, and it fleshes out our national narrative. -
Research in Hospitality Management
Item type: JournalsA peer-reviewed journal publishing papers that make an original contribution to the understanding of hospitality and hospitality management in a global context. It has a strong focus on issues which have an immediate practical application – giving the journal relevance to academics as well as industry practitioners. -
What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance
Item type: Books • Author: Ayo AdeduntanWhat the Forest Told Me conveys the elastic nature of African cultural expression through narratives of the Yoruba hunters' exploits. Hunters' narratives provide a window on the Yoruba understanding and explanation of their world; a cosmology that negates the anthropocentric view of creation. In a very literal sense, man, in this peculiar world, is an equal actor with animal and nature spirits with whom he constantly contests and negotiates space. -
Beyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities
Item type: Books • Author: Kwesi YankahBy integrating his own biography into a critique of the global politics of knowledge production, Yankah, through a collection of essays, interrogates critical issues confronting the Humanities that spawn intellectual hegemonies and muffle African voices. Using the example of Ghana, he brings under scrutiny, amongst others, endemic issues of academic freedom, gender inequities, the unequal global academic order, and linguistic imperialism in language policies in governance. -
The Anglophone Literary-Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse
Item type: Books • Author: Michael AndindilileMichael Andindilile interrogates Obi Wali’s (1963) prophecy that continued use of former colonial languages in the production of African literature could only lead to ‘sterility’, as African literatures can only be written in indigenous African languages. -
Consensus as Democracy in Africa
Item type: Books • Author: Bernard MatolinoSome philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions built into consensus as a social and political theory. -
Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel
Item type: Books • Author: Romanus AbohLanguage and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention to how forms of identities – ethnic, cultural, national and gender – are constructed through the use of language in select novels of Adichie, Atta and Betiang. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book draws analytical insights from critical discourse analysis, literary discourse analysis and socio-ethno-linguistic analysis. -
Unshared Identity: Posthumous paternity in a contemporary Yoruba community
Item type: Books • Author: Babajide OlolajuloUnshared Identity employs the practice of posthumous paternity in Ilupeju-Ekiti, a Yoruba-speaking community in Nigeria, to explore endogenous African ways of being and meaning-making that are believed to have declined when the Yoruba and other groups constituting present-day Nigeria were preyed upon by European colonialism and Westernisation. However, the author’s fieldwork for this book uncovered evidence of the resilience of Africa’s endogenous epistemologies. -
Reading the Animal Text in the Landscape of the Damned
Item type: Books • Author: Les MitchellReading the animal text in the landscape of the damned looks at the diverse texts of our everyday world relating to nonhuman animals and examines the meanings we imbibe from them. It describes ways in which we can explore such artefacts, especially from the perspective of groups and individuals with little or no power. This work understands the oppression of nonhuman animals as being part of a spectrum incorporating sexism, racism, xenophobia, economic exploitation and other forms of oppression. The enquiry includes, physical landscapes, the law, women’s rights, history, slavery, language use, economic coercion, farming, animal experimentation and much more. -
Boxing is no Cakewalk! Azumah ‘Ring Professor’ Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing
Item type: Books • Author: De-Valera NYM BotchwayBoxing is no cakewalk! Azumah ‘Ring Professor’ Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing explores the social history of boxing in Ghana and its interesting nexus with the biography of Azumah Nelson, unquestionably Ghana’s most celebrated boxer. The book posits that sports constitute more than mere games that people play. They are endowed with enormous political, cultural, economic and social power that can influence people’s lives in various ways. -
Hollywood and Africa: Recycling the ‘Dark Continent’ Myth, 1908–2020
Item type: Books • Author: Okaka Opio DokotumHollywood and Africa - recycling the ‘Dark Continent’ myth from 1908–2020 is a study of over a century of stereotypical Hollywood film productions about Africa. It argues that the myth of the Dark Continent continues to influence Western cultural productions about Africa as a cognitive-based system of knowledge, especially in history, literature and film. -
Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media
Item type: Books • Author: Dina LigagaWomen, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media explores familiar constructions of femininity to assess ways in which it circulates in discourse, both stereotypically and otherwise. It assesses the meanings of such discourses and their articulations in various public platforms in Kenya. -
African Personhood and Applied Ethics
Item type: Books • Author: Motsamai MolefeAfrican Personhood and Applied Ethics offers a philosophical explication of the ethics of personhood to give reasons why we should take it seriously as an African moral perspective that can contribute to global moral-political issues. -
A contribution to the South African Materia Medica
Item type: Books • Author: Andrew Smith of St CyrusThis facsimile edition is introduced by Tony Dold and Michelle Cocks of Rhodes University, themselves expert on the social and medicinal uses of indigenous plants. They situate Smith’s work in the context of earlier studies of South African medicinal plants, and they update it with a look at subsequent writings as well as the continuing relevance of indigenous medicines today. -
Yabbing and Wording: The artistry of Nigerian stand-up comedy
Item type: Books • Author: Izuu NwankwọYabbing and Wording: The artistry of Nigerian stand-up comedy is a long-overdue academic interrogation of the novel stand-up practice in Nigeria as performance. ‘Yabbing’ comes from the Nigerian Pidgin English verb, ‘yab’, which means a satirical jibe thrown at individuals, groups or institutions. Nigeria’s Fela Anikulapo-Kuti used this effectively in his recorded and live music performances against successive military regimes. ‘Wording’ derives from the English term ‘word’ and refers to a game in which parties exchange insults. It is a modern-day coinage for traditional forms of joking that existed across Nigeria and elsewhere in precolonial times. -
Wrecking Ball: Why permanent technological unemployment, a predictable pandemic and other wicked problems will end South Africa’s experiment in inclusive democracy
Item type: Books • Author: Stu WoolmanWrecking Ball explores, in an unprecedented manner, a decalogue of wicked problems that confronts humanity: Nuclear proliferation, climate change, pandemics, permanent technological unemployment, Orwellian public and private surveillance, social media that distorts reality, cyberwarfare, the fragmentation of democracies, the inability of nations to cabin private power, the failure of multinational institutions to promote collaboration and the deepening of autocratic rule in countries that have never known anything but extractive institutions. Collectively, or even severally, these wicked problems constitute crises that could end civilisation. -
The Selfless Constitution: Experimentalism and Flourishing as Foundations of South Africa’s Basic Law
Item type: Books • Author: Stu WoolmanDo you possess ‘freedom’—the will to do as you choose—as an individual, as a participant in social affairs or as a citizen in the political realm? Well, no. Not really. At least not as most of us understand a term loaded down with metaphysical baggage. Don’t worry. You’ve got something better: a neurological system capable of carrying out the most complex analytical and computational tasks; membership in innumerable communities that provide you with huge stores of knowledge and wisdom; and a politico-constitutional order that ought to provide the material and the immaterial conditions that will enable you to pursue a life worth valuing. Drop the simplistic folk-psychology of unfettered freedom, whilst holding on to intentionality, and you might be inclined to adopt a set of social practices and political arrangements that enhance the chances that you and your compatriots will flourish. -
Men across time: Contesting masculinities in Ghanaian fiction and film
Item type: Books • Author: Theresah Patrine EnninMen across time: Contesting masculinities in Ghanaian fiction and film examines the various constructions and manifestations of masculinities from precolonial, colonial, independent and post-independent Ghana as portrayed in selected Ghanaian fiction, film and music videos. This book submits that in questioning the various masculine modes of behaviours portrayed in these texts, and negotiating their own masculine identities, the male characters showcase the mutations that are taking place within masculine representations over time and aver that other models of masculine expression are possible. -
Queer Bodies in African Films
Item type: Books • Author: Gibson NcubeIn examining diverse films in various languages and from different parts of the African continent, Queer Bodies in Africa Films shows that queer African experiences and cultural productions have developed beyond the hegemony of South Africa. Furthermore. its nuanced reading of films from different geographic zones and time frames contends that a focus on the body allows for a unique understanding of what queerness is and means within the context of Africa. -
Beyond Monuments: The politics and poetics of memory in post-war northern Uganda
Item type: Books • Author: Laury L. OcenBeyond Monuments: The politics and poetics of memory in post-war northern Uganda explores themes of war and peace, displacement and return, and remembering and forgetting, depicted as experiences of survivors of mass violence in the northern Uganda civil wars between 1987 and 2006. Presented as dichotomies marking key transitional moments negotiated by NGOs, governments, and post-war communities in northern Uganda, the analysis of these themes emphasises how ordinary survivors of war make claims – through oral performances, memoirs, reminiscences, and place and personal names – that foreground memories threatened with amnesia, resulting from state and NGO driven commemorations. -
Music and urban youth identities: A study of ghetto youth in contemporary culture and politics in Zimbabwe
Item type: Books • Author: Doreen Rumbidzai TivengaWhen the Zimbabwean government imposed the 75% local content policy in 2001, young people began dominating the music scene, marking a dramatic turn in the history of Zimbabwean music and entertainment. Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga’s Music and Urban Youth Identities: A study of ghetto youth identities in contemporary culture and politics in Zimbabwe traces how the stipulation of the local content quota coincided with the post-2000 political and economic crises in Zimbabwe that pushed youth, especially those from low-income backgrounds – the ‘ghetto youth’ – to the margins of the country’s economy. -
Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry since 1947
Item type: Books • Author: Sibanengi NcubeThe book uses the case of Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry to situate white settler agriculture in the broader context of post-Second World War British imperial policy and, to an extent, American foreign economic policy, decolonisation, and global tobacco trade politics. It concludes by highlighting policy continuities and discontinuities across the colonial-postcolonial divide. By pursuing these matters, the book makes a significant contribution to Zimbabwe’s economic history and to the growing literature on settler-colonial and postcolonial studies, with broader implications for regional and international trade debates. To achieve this, it draws on an extensive coverage of archives in Zimbabwe and South Africa, coupled with relevant newspaper reports, interviews, and industry publications. -
Bettering their foods: Peasant production, nutrition and the state in Malawi, 1859–2005
Item type: Books • Author: Bryson G. NkhomaDespite the long history of agricultural interventions globally, peasants from Malawi and beyond continue to face the challenge of sustainable food production and nutrition. Bettering their foods: Peasant food production, nutrition and the state in Malawi, 1859–2005 weaves together the political, social, economic, demographic, climatic, ecological and global developments that have informed the various food production and nutrition interventions to account for this development. -
The Shame of Shame: (in) contemporary South African performance
Item type: Books • Author: Abigail WieseThe Shame of Shame is an interdisciplinary study located at the intersection of performance studies, affect theory, shame theory, autoethnography and practice-led/research-led methodology. The Shame of Shame would be a helpful companion to anyone trying to process affects of discomfort, racism, Othering and an abjection of the Self. -
Living with ‘Others’: Ethnic conflict and pluralism in Uganda’s Greater Kibaale Region
Item type: Books • Author: Jimmy Spire SsentongoKibaale region in Uganda provides an interesting case study where periods of conflict between the ‘indigenous’ people (the Banyoro) and ‘immigrants’ (the Bafuruki) have been interspersed with instances of coexistence. Whereas much scholarly work has discussed episodes of tension and conflict, the moments of peace have scarcely been touched upon. Living with ‘Others’: Ethnic Conflict and Pluralism in Uganda's Greater Kibaale Region contributes to ethnicity debates by exploring how the people of Kibaale imagine and live out possibilities for coexistence. In do so, Living with ‘Others’ makes a contribution to theories of ethnic pluralism and practical imaginations of coexistence in Kibaale. These can be applied to the rest of Uganda, Africa and elsewhere in the world where inter-ethnic conflicts have disrupted peace and resulted in human suffering.
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