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Do Fakes Exist? Trade and Consumption of Sex Enhancers in Harare's Avenues. 假货存在吗？哈拉雷大道上的增性剂交易与消费。

Journal of African cultural studies, 2020-

Pub Date : 2022-12-08 eCollection Date: 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2022.2136630

Ushewedu Kufakurinani

After the ban of over-the-counter sex enhancers in 2013 by the Medical Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ), the streets of the inner city area of Harare called The Avenues became a haven for illegal traders in sex enhancers. This article explores how products that are banned by the state acquire their own agencies. From the traders' perspectives, the point of departure to understanding efficacy is not the sex enhancers, but their clients' needs and their body systems. Thus, the authenticity of the products ceases to be a point of reference. The trade and consumption of sex enhancers amongst Zimbabweans is itself intricately intertwined with the broader political economy of the country. A deteriorating economy has engendered a crisis of masculinity which has contributed towards increased trade and consumption in sex enhancers. The article argues that drug efficacy is a complex phenomenon, whose conceptualisation and manifestations are fluid and not always pharmacological. The research documents six months in The Avenues as research "field", enriched by both online and traditional ethnographies. The analysis aims to understand perceptions of and dynamics around the efficacy of sex enhancers sold in Harare's urban streets.

2013 年，津巴布韦医疗管制局（MCAZ）禁止非处方性增强剂，此后，哈拉雷内城地区名为 "大道"（The Avenues）的街道成了性增强剂非法交易者的天堂。本文探讨了被国家禁止的产品如何获得自己的代理机构。从商贩的角度来看，了解疗效的出发点并不是性增强剂，而是客户的需求和身体系统。因此，产品的真实性不再是一个参考点。津巴布韦人对性增强剂的交易和消费本身就与该国更广泛的政治经济错综复杂地交织在一起。不断恶化的经济引发了男性危机，而男性危机又助长了性增强剂的交易和消费。文章认为，药效是一种复杂的现象，其概念和表现形式是多变的，并不总是药理上的。研究记录了作为研究 "田野 "的 "大道 "的六个月，并通过在线和传统民族志进行了丰富。分析旨在了解人们对哈拉雷城市街头销售的性增强剂的功效的看法和动态。

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Kenya's "Fake Essay" Writers and the Light they Shine on Assumptions of Shadows in Knowledge Production. 肯尼亚的“假论文”作者及其对知识生产中阴影假设的启示。

Journal of African cultural studies, 2020-

Pub Date : 2021-09-20 eCollection Date: 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2021.1952405

Patricia Kingori

In this contribution to the special issue on Fakery in Africa, I examine the booming "fake essay" industry and draw on the role and perspectives increasingly occupied by of tens of thousands of young and highly-educated Kenyans. These so-called "Shadow Scholars" are part of a vast global online marketplace, an invisible knowledge production economy, where students and academics in the global North solicit and pay for their services in exchange for confidential and plagiarism-free essays, theses, dissertations, qualifications and publications. This article centres on descriptions of these writers as "shadows" as a means of complicating not only the most popular description of Africa in the global imagination - as existing in the shadow of an infinite number of different entities - but to challenge the notion of the shadow in relation to African knowledge production as being fake. It pays attention to the Kenyan writers' protestations that their knowledge, experiences and labour are all real and that analogies with shadows reduce them and the impact of their work to something that is non-existent and not alive. From their perspective the term shadow is pejorative because it further reduces the intellectual contribution of Africans, presenting them as derivative.

在这篇关于非洲造假的特刊中，我研究了蓬勃发展的“假论文”行业，并借鉴了成千上万受过高等教育的肯尼亚年轻人日益占据的角色和观点。这些所谓的“影子学者”是一个庞大的全球在线市场的一部分，这是一个无形的知识生产经济，全球北方的学生和学者在这里征求他们的服务并支付费用，以换取保密和无抄袭的论文、论文、学位论文、资格证书和出版物。这篇文章集中在把这些作家描述为“影子”，作为一种手段，不仅使全球想象中对非洲最流行的描述——存在于无数不同实体的阴影中——变得复杂，而且挑战了与非洲知识生产有关的阴影概念是虚假的。它关注肯尼亚作家的抗议，他们的知识，经验和劳动都是真实的，与阴影的类比减少了他们和他们工作的影响，使其成为不存在的东西。从他们的角度来看，“影子”一词带有贬义，因为它进一步降低了非洲人的智力贡献，将他们视为衍生物。

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