South Africa’s land reform programme is designed for a socio-economic context that doesn’t exist.
Amirr (centre) parades though his village ahead of the imbalu circumcision ritual. Imbalu begins with dance and music, as initiates visit relatives and friends to receive gifts.
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Bernard Taverne, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Firmin Kra, Université Alassane Ouattara de Bouaké; Francis Akindès, Université Alassane Ouattara de Bouaké; Gabriele Laborde-Balen, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Khoudia Sow, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), and Marc Egrot, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
It is important that procedures surrounding funerals are developed by public health officials alongside traditional and religious authorities.
The Bomvana say the global development agenda has created division because it sees people as individuals rather than primarily as members of a collective.
South African commercial law courses do not address the question of what norms and procedures govern business relations in indigenous African communities.
South African President Jacob Zuma and Tobeka Madiba, his fifth wife, celebrate their traditional wedding with a dance.
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Its critics complain that current Afrodiasporic literature is not in tune with everyday life on the continent. They see its versions of Africa as sanitised and Westernised.
Sathima Bea Benjamin was seldom recognised during her lifetime as a performer.
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Robin Kelley, University of California, Los Angeles
It took ages for one of African jazz’s hidden masterpieces to be reissued. Still today, four decades later, 1976’s ‘African Songbird’ tells volumes about the politics of the time.
The skylines of Alexandra township and Sandton City. Decolonising education involves helping students understand how different experiences shape our world.
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Decolonising education should be about ensuring that students learn more about other fellow South Africans who might be different to them.
For black women demands for equal dignity and fairness do not necessarily entail a desire to do away with male leadership in the home, community and country.
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National Women’s Day in South Africa marks the historic protest in 1956 of women against apartheid policies. But, six decades on, black women have yet to fully embrace feminism as a discourse.
Anthropologue, Centre Régional de Recherche et de Formation à la prise en charge Clinique de Fann (CRCF, Dakar), Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)