Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2023.2230229
D. Maphaka
{"title":"An Afrocentric Analysis of the Practicality of Radical Economic Transformation in the Context of South Africa–China Relations, 2013–2017","authors":"D. Maphaka","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2023.2230229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2023.2230229","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134121539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2023.2230277
Masilo Lepuru
{"title":"Lembede's Afrika for the Afrikans and the Azanian Tradition Today: A Comparative Analysis of Two Forms of Afrikan Nationalism in “South Africa”","authors":"Masilo Lepuru","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2023.2230277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2023.2230277","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133494183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2023.2230255
B. Dasaolu, E. Ofuasia, S. Oladipupo
{"title":"Is Ifá Divination Girded by Logic? A Case for Ezumezu Logic","authors":"B. Dasaolu, E. Ofuasia, S. Oladipupo","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2023.2230255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2023.2230255","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133281209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2023.2222541
M. Masoga, A. L. Shokane
{"title":"African Thought and Western (European) Misconception: An Afrocentric Paradigm","authors":"M. Masoga, A. L. Shokane","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2023.2222541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2023.2222541","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127953525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2128841
Felix Shihundu
Abstract Türkiye has become an assertive player in soft power politics since Joseph Nye coined the term and its subsequent adoption by leaders as a coherent external relations strategy. Focusing on Africa from the beginning of 2000, Türkiye has built its structures of influence and steadily expanded its persuasion on the continent. The wielding of Türkiye’s soft power in Africa is yet to receive sufficient academic attention. This study attempts to contextualise the extent of Türkiye’s attractive power using the flourishing social economic relations with Kenya as a case study. Soft power is necessary in enhancing people-to-people relations, knowledge and information sharing, improvement of trade networks, and staging of coalitions against global threats.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2023.2194099
K. Mutuma
History has an ineffaceable influence on foreign policy. South Africa and India: A Perspective on Post-Apartheid Diplomatic Relations is a distinctive text elucidating the unique shared history of preand post-apartheid South Africa and India and how this shared history can best be leveraged to foster post-apartheid social economic and diplomatic relations between the two countries. Premised on his experiences as a South African diplomat in India, the author, Dr Bobby J. Moroe, analyses post-apartheid diplomatic relations between South Africa and India and goes on to point out that the two countries are yet to fully realise and draw on the role of the private sector and civil society in fostering diplomatic relations.
历史对外交政策有着不可磨灭的影响。《南非和印度:种族隔离后外交关系的视角》是一本独特的著作，阐述了种族隔离前和种族隔离后南非和印度独特的共同历史，以及如何最好地利用这一共同历史来促进两国在后种族隔离时代的社会、经济和外交关系。作者Bobby J. Moroe博士以他作为南非驻印度外交官的经历为基础，分析了种族隔离后南非和印度之间的外交关系，并接着指出，这两个国家尚未充分认识到并利用私营部门和民间社会在促进外交关系中的作用。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2140063
B. Balogun
Abstract The symbiotic relationship between philosophy and literature has a long history stretching back to the ancient Greek period. This perhaps is largely because these branches of knowledge share a common disciplinary boundary within the area of humanism. With the return to humanism by some contemporary movements in philosophy, this relationship has taken a methodological bent in which philosophical positions are driven home through literary forms. This essay demonstrates such a relationship by exploring the existentialist theme of authentic personhood in Femi Osofisan’s Tẹgọnni: An African Antigone (1994). The article situates Osofisan’s work within the broader theoretical perspective of the personhood debate in African philosophy. Using the eponymous heroine of the play as an instantiation of the existentialist theme of authenticity, the article argues—contrary to the dominant view in the discourse of African traditional thought, namely that personhood is constituted through alignment with the rules of the community—that the real marker of authentic personhood is the right deployment of an individual’s freedom in the achievement of self-conceived life goals. The article adopts the Sartrean existentialist theoretical framework as an evaluative apparatus to apply to the creative work. It concludes that, given the rich existential dispositions of Osofisan’s Tẹgọnni, the work qualifies as a philosophical memoir on human existence.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2023.2192598
Masilo Lepuru
{"title":"A Rose by Any Other Name? On the Mistitling of Tembeka Ngcukaitobi’s Land Matters: South Africa’s Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead","authors":"Masilo Lepuru","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2023.2192598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2023.2192598","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128411671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2023.2189881
Siphamandla Zondi
{"title":"From the Africa of Yesterday to the Africa of Tomorrow","authors":"Siphamandla Zondi","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2023.2189881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2023.2189881","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134512781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-31DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2128838
Luvuyo Zantsi
Abstract The post-apartheid government in South Africa has provided increased opportunities for public participation at the local government level. Local party politics tend to bedevil these local participatory processes. This paper discusses ANC party politics and how they impact on public participation. It draws on a case study of five municipalities in the Cape Winelands District of the Western Cape that was conducted through semi-structured interviews and secondary data analysis. Local ANC politics has a huge impact on local government structures and their participatory processes. The ANC is a unitary structure in its policy but there is a lack of uniformity in understanding, commitment, and implementation of participatory policies at different levels of the organisation and government spheres. Some deployed public representatives work to advance themselves and their factions, at the expense of the ANC and the communities they are supposed to be leading. The findings of this study have as much significance for civil society as for the local state and its representatives. They show that it is not always the case that the state is bad and civil society is good as leaders of civil society get involved in clientelist relationships and blatant corruption.
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