This chapter uses the #RhodesMust Fall movement as a point of entry into the debate on decolonization of English in South African universities. The chapter reads striking similarities in the workings of monuments like ...
There is a growing scholarship that shows how myths, mysteries, common sayings and beliefs aid the advancement of a sustainable future for human and nonhuman species. This article takes one such example, the Yorùbá concepts ...
Meiring, J.J.S. (Jacob Johannes Smit)(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2023-06-30)
This article explores the lifework and legacy of Archbishop
Desmond Mpilo Tutu who passed away on 26 December
2021. It relates the reaction of visitors to the newly
installed exhibition, Truth to power: Desmond Tutu ...
Reproduction is political. Citation is political. In this essay, I link the anthropological concept of reproduction (biological and social), which is closely tied to kin-making, to citation. I suggest that citation can be ...
Ombere, Stephen O.; Nyambedha, Erick Otieno(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)
Fishing communities in many Sub-Saharan African countries are a high-risk population group disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic. The association of migration with HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is well ...
Maternal healthcare is a global agenda. Kenya introduced free maternity services (FMS) in 2013 to allow women to give birth for free in all government public health facilities. The introduction of FMS was timely due to the ...
Ombere, Stephen Okumu; Nyabundi, Agnetta Adiedo(MDPI, 2023-02)
The COVID-19 pandemic overstretched health systems in developed and developing nations. Like other African nations, Kenya has a frail health system, making responding to the pandemic a problem. Recent studies during COVID-19 ...
For decades, African governments have cited debt servicing and international credit ratings as the reasons for continued policies of austerity. It is demonstrated here that though unjust and anti-developmental, as critics ...
Sand frontiers all over the world are expanding owing to the growing demand for construction sand. While several scholarly interventions are devoted to accounting for the extensive ecological damage and ways of improving ...
Mpofu, Mufaro; Okunade, Samuel Kehinde(Adonis and Abbey Publishers, 2022-09)
South Africa has witnessed several xenophobic attacks over the years. Many African migrants, both legal and illegal, have been humiliated and killed in violent acts of hatred fuelled by the country's existing socioeconomic ...
Ombere, Stephen Okumu; Nyambedha, Erick O.; Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja(Women’s Health and Action Research Centre, 2022-12)
Many sub-Saharan African countries have experienced various challenges that threaten the quality of health services offered to the population. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted access to healthcare services in many countries ...
The ability of farmers to operate redistributed farms in a profitable and sustainable manner
is crucial for both successful integration into agricultural value chains and sustainable production
systems. The performance ...
Achieving food and nutrition security and ending hunger is a complex and multi-faceted global challenge, which requires urgent attention, particularly in Africa. To eliminate hunger, the continent needs to transition to ...
May, Julian; Mentz-Coetzee, Melody(MDPI, 2021-09-28)
The COVID-19 pandemic heightened awareness that serious illness and injury are common
and important shocks that result in food insecurity, the loss of livelihoods, and unsustainable coping
strategies. These have significant ...
The COVID-19 pandemic provides both a warning
about agri-food systems’ (AFS) functioning and an
accelerator for AFS innovation. It revealed both the
increasing frequency of extreme events and structural
shortcomings ...
Mkandawire, Elizabeth; Mentz-Coetzee, Melody; Mangheni, Margaret Najjingo; Barusi, Eleonora(MDPI, 2021-07-31)
Globally, gender inequalities constrain food security, with women often disproportionately
affected. Women play a fundamental role in household food and nutrition security. The multiple roles
women play in various areas ...
Green bonds have recently emerged as a financing instrument with significant potential for funding green projects. However, Kenyan issuers have been slow in issuing green bonds despite there being multiplicity of bankable ...
Okunade, Samuel Kehinde; Faluyi, Olumuyiwa Temitope; Matambo, Emmanuel(Routledge, 2021)
Insurgency has gained prominence in Africa. It is usually associated with marginalisation, poverty, and inequality and often has religious links and bases. Insurgency frequently originates in communities situated along the ...