Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2107671
Siphamandla Zondi
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2035784
Oluwatoyin Dare Kolawole, Garrick Cooper
Abstract While cultures are diverse in nature, there are many similarities between them. This is the case with African and Maōri cultures. Local people largely view their realities in a similar way. The question as to whether there are similarities in the indigenous epistemologies related to farming activities in different regions (such as West Africa, southern Africa, and Oceania) therefore arises. Given that no form of knowledge is mutually exclusive, we attempt to seek the points of convergence between local or indigenous knowledge and scientific modes of enquiry in relation to soil fertility management. In addition to secondary information, qualitative data were purposively obtained from key informants in selected farming communities in northwestern Botswana, the Canterbury province in New Zealand (Aotearoa), and southwestern Nigeria. We hypothesise that local farmers’ ways of knowing related to soil fertility and management have commonalities with mainstream science, particularly in terms of soil classification. Our findings show that both scientific and indigenous epistemologies as regards soil fertility are based on certain indicators, including soil morphology, the presence of fauna, plant growth, and so forth. While African farmers used the “principle of mental economy” to determine soil suitability, Māori farmers systematically group various soils, which is an indication of their sophisticated environmental knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2034482
W. Zeleke
Abstract This study is about the achievements of women during the Battle of Adwa and its aftermath, with a focus on Empress Taytu Betul (1880s–1910s). The study was conducted based on primary and secondary sources. In most cases the researcher has relied on data from secondary sources, as no elderly people could be found who could offer information about the role of Empress Taytu and her followers during and after the battle of Adwa. In the study of Ethiopian history, there are still misperceptions related to the division of power based on gender. It is thought that wars were fought mainly by men. However, the empress was one of the women who played a significant role in mobilising troops, organising and transporting supplies and provisions, raising the morale of fighters, gathering intelligence, nursing the wounded, and participating in actual fighting, during the Battle of Meqelle in particular and during the Battle of Adwa. Moreover, women who did not go to the battlefield had the responsibility of carrying the burden of men's work at home.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2037004
T. Moyo, A. Chikwanha
Abstract Although Africa has made some progress in the last two decades, the continent still faces development challenges: the persistence of poverty, unemployment, and inequality. The continent still depends to a large extent on commodities in terms of production and exports, and it imports the bulk of its manufactured goods. Thus, there has been little progress on structural transformation. Dependence on donor financing remains high. Relative to other regions, Africa ranks lowest on many development indicators. This article has two objectives: to assess the nature and practice of African agency and to analyse its effectiveness in shaping, nurturing, and promoting the kind of development that is defined in the African Union's Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. Agenda 2063 presents a vision of development that is people-driven, people-owned, participatory, and self-reliant. Although the AU has made progress in creating institutional governance architecture and a continental development framework to guide its member states, its “Africanness” and effectiveness as an agency for development seems limited. We attribute this to the limited nature of participation and engagement of broader African society in the decision-making processes and in the programme initiatives that are aimed to achieve the goals of Agenda 2063.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2105735
Sbonelo Radebe
{"title":"Breakthrough: The Struggle and Secret Talks That Brought Apartheid South Africa to the Negotiating Table, by Mac Maharaj and Z. Pallo Jordan","authors":"Sbonelo Radebe","doi":"10.1080/18186874.2022.2105735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2022.2105735","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":256939,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124059311","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2084696
Gedion Onyango
Abstract Understanding bureaucratic corruption and maladministration in Africa has often hinged on political dimensions of the state and governance foci. This study crafts and applies the administrative rituals approach or a bureaucratic analysis to explore practical institutional and normative synergies of corruption and maladministration in Kenya. The discussion attempts to draw theoretical generalisations to address broader interests in bureaucratic theory and public accountability, drawing on empirical illustrations of how corruption and maladministration in Kenyan public administration fit within these explanations. The paper shows that despite their knowledge of anti-corruption laws, Kenyan public servants’ actions and behaviours are ritualistically ordained to follow particular patterns over others, some of which reduce public accountability strategies to mere administrative symbols/rituals in public administration.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2105734
P. Ben
Ada Agada is one of the most vocal voices of the Conversational School of Philosophy (CSP). In Consolationism and Comparative African Philosophy: Beyond Universalism and Particularism, Agada aims to provide clarity on the philosophical tenets of Consolationism, his project on system building that is central to the future direction and development of African philosophy. The book is divided into three parts: The first part focuses on the universalism-particularism conundrum in African philosophy, the second part is concerned with explicating the basic preoccupations of Consolation philosophy, and the third part focuses on cross-cultural and comparative philosophy which is one of the central themes of conversational philosophy.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2034483
Rich Mashimbye
Abstract Since the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s, the southern Africa region has been characterised by the near absence of terrorism. In central, eastern, northern, and western Africa, internal armed conflicts have emerged at one point or another in the postcolonial period, while southern Africa is the only region that has been, until recently, free of serious internal conflicts characterised by the use of conventional weapons. However, the recent emergence of terrorism in Mozambique poses a threat to the stability of not only that country but the entire region. The military intervention of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and Rwanda presents an opportunity for Mozambique and the SADC to thwart the increasingly violent terrorist attacks in Mozambique. This article explores the organised terrorist attacks that have emerged since 2017 in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, the implications for the stability of southern Africa, and the posture of the SADC and states in the region regarding the security situation. A qualitative approach is adopted to ensure a comprehensive interpretation of the data. Both primary and secondary data sources were used, the former being mainly official SADC communiques on the situation, and the latter peer-reviewed articles and books and news articles and reports by humanitarian organisations on the situation. A conceptual distinction is made between the concepts of “insurgency” and “terrorism”, and this distinction is subsequently used to analyse the nature and scope of the instability in Mozambique and, fundamentally, whether the crisis constitutes an insurgency or terrorism.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2073244
S. Zantsi, Lunathi Hlakanyane, Tabile Nkunjana
Abstract This review study takes a first step towards understanding the extent of social cohesion in South Africa’s farming landscape to contribute to the scant literature in this area. A socially cohesive society is a society in which all forms of inequality, exclusion, and disparity based on ethnicity, race, gender, class, religion or any other divisive distinction that causes distrust and conflict are sustainably reduced with a view to eventual eradication. This ideal is examined through social networking among the different farming communities within South African agriculture. Farmer organisations are identified and reviewed through their websites and discussed together with other relevant literature, searched through traditional and snowball literature reviews. We found very little evidence to suggest that the social cohesion ideal has been achieved in South African agriculture. The implications of this are discussed in light of the transformation agenda of the agricultural sector through land reform.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2039876
B. Van Haute
Abstract In this article I investigate the ways in which a new humanism can assist contemporary artists in South Africa in making their work relevant to a global audience. Following the ideas of Chielozona Eze (Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018), I argue that decolonisation in art is possible through a cosmopolitan mindset built on inclusion and openness to otherness. Eze's ideas on empathetic cosmopolitanism and global citizenship respond to the need for a new society marked by solidarity with all people, regardless of race, class, gender, or other markers of difference. However, this call for global citizenship does not come at the cost of cultural specificity, which acknowledges (South) Africa as a site of knowledge creation. My argument is supported by an examination of the 2017 Fondation Louis Vuitton show in Paris and the work of Lawrence Lemaoana exhibited there. His embroidered works serve as an example of the ways in which young black artists can access the global art world through being open to reality and to global concerns, leaving behind tradition which is incompatible with modernity. I state that Lemaoana has managed to decolonise his art to become a global citizen with a cosmopolitan mindset, and whose art exemplifies sameness in our humanity.
在这篇文章中，我研究了一种新的人文主义可以帮助南非当代艺术家使他们的作品与全球观众相关的方式。遵循Chielozona Eze(南非种族、非殖民化和全球公民)的思想。罗切斯特:罗切斯特大学出版社，2018)，我认为通过建立在包容和开放的基础上的世界主义心态，艺术的非殖民化是可能的。埃兹关于同理心的世界主义和全球公民的思想回应了对新社会的需求，新社会的特征是所有人团结一致，不分种族、阶级、性别或其他差异。然而，这种对全球公民身份的呼吁并不是以牺牲文化特殊性为代价的，这种特殊性承认(南非)是一个知识创造的场所。2017年路易威登基金会(foundation Louis Vuitton)在巴黎举办的时装秀，以及劳伦斯·莱莫阿纳(Lawrence Lemaoana)在那里展出的作品，支持了我的观点。他的刺绣作品是一个例子，说明年轻的黑人艺术家可以通过对现实和全球关注开放的方式进入全球艺术世界，抛弃与现代不相容的传统。我认为Lemaoana已经成功地将他的艺术去殖民化，成为一个拥有世界主义思维的世界公民，他的艺术体现了我们人类的同一性。
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