Journal articles: 'Tales – Africa'

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Harry, Tinashe Timothy, Nicole Dodd, and Willie Chinyamurindi. "Telling tales." Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research 7, no. 1 (April 15, 2019): 64–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jgm-05-2018-0024.

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PurposeSouth Africa has witnessed an increase in self-initiated academic expatriates (SIAEs) coming into the country from all over the world. This movement of labour can result in South Africa performing better than any other African country. However, expatriation is accompanied by several challenges which affect both work and non-work scopes. Given that more is needed to understand the lived experiences of the expatriates, especially self-initiated expatriates from and in Africa, the purpose of this paper is to provide the basis for interventions to assist the expatriates in overcoming challenges by understanding their lived experiences.Design/methodology/approachThe study used an interpretivist approach to understand the lived experiences of SIAEs. The data were collected through the use of unstructured interviews of 25 expatriate academics within South Africa. The individual narratives were analysed through structural and thematic analysis to develop themes.FindingsThrough the stories and narratives, the expatriation experience was one framed to be a challenging process. The lived experiences can be grouped into life and career experiences. The life experiences consist of immigration difficulties, family separation, social adjustment difficulties and unavailability of accommodation. Career experiences include remuneration differences, gender discrimination, limited professional development opportunities and communication difficulties, which affect both work and non-work experiences. Person–environment fit did not play a significant role in the experiences of the academic expatriates.Practical implicationsThe findings showed that the lived experiences of SIAEs in Africa were mostly negative. Higher education institutions looking at hiring academic expatriates should assist the expatriates to have better experiences not only for individual benefit but for institutional benefit as well. However, this role is not only placed in the hands of the organisation but may also require individual effort.Originality/valueThe findings outlined in this study provide a picture of the lived experiences of SIAEs in an African context. The findings are fundamental in understanding this neglected sample group in the extant literature. They also assist in advancing literature and proposing possible solutions. All this is important, given global talent shortages which have warranted the need for highly skilled employees in countries like South Africa.

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Dada Ojo, Matthias Olufemi, and Abel Olurotimi Ayodele. "Moonlight Tales as Potential Tools for Behavioural Moulding: Cases of Five Selected Moonlight Tales." International Journal of Culture and History 2, no. 2 (December 23, 2015): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijch.v2i2.8768.

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<p>This article examined the usefulness of moonlight stories or tales as powerful tools in character moulding of the African Children. Five different moonlight tales were sampled and told and the lessons derived highlighted. The article concludes that moonlight storytelling, like other unwritten oral traditions in Africa has faded away, especially in African cities where the parents have no time to sit down their children and mould their characters through story telling.</p>The article recommends that parents should be re-orientated on moonlight storytelling and encouraged to tell stories to their children against all odds. It also recommends the inclusion of moonlight story telling into the school curricula in African Schools. Finally, storytelling on radio and television to children is also recommended.

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Schlebusch, Carina M., and Mattias Jakobsson. "Tales of Human Migration, Admixture, and Selection in Africa." Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 19, no. 1 (August 31, 2018): 405–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-genom-083117-021759.

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In the last three decades, genetic studies have played an increasingly important role in exploring human history. They have helped to conclusively establish that anatomically modern humans first appeared in Africa roughly 250,000–350,000 years before present and subsequently migrated to other parts of the world. The history of humans in Africa is complex and includes demographic events that influenced patterns of genetic variation across the continent. Through genetic studies, it has become evident that deep African population history is captured by relationships among African hunter–gatherers, as the world's deepest population divergences occur among these groups, and that the deepest population divergence dates to 300,000 years before present. However, the spread of pastoralism and agriculture in the last few thousand years has shaped the geographic distribution of present-day Africans and their genetic diversity. With today's sequencing technologies, we can obtain full genome sequences from diverse sets of extant and prehistoric Africans. The coming years will contribute exciting new insights toward deciphering human evolutionary history in Africa.

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Chen, Zhaoyuan. "China’s developmental tales in Africa." China International Strategy Review 3, no. 1 (May 4, 2021): 202–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42533-021-00073-z.

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Sanyal, Sunanda K. "Heads and Tales: Adornments from Africa." African Arts 34, no. 4 (2001): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3337811.

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Lynch, Lisa. "The Neo/Bio/Colonial Hot Zone." International Journal of Cultural Studies 1, no. 2 (August 1998): 233–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13678779980010020501.

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This article explores the proliferation of nonfiction narratives which warn of an impending global pandemic of African origin. Through a reading of four texts — Richard Preston's The Hot Zone, Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague, Richard Kaplan's The Ends of the Earth, and Jeffrey Goldberg's ‘Our Africa Problem’ — the author argues that such pandemic narratives reflect unease about the United States' current and future role in Africa or other non-Western places, after a half-century of largely unsuccessful ‘development’. Second, plague tales reflect anxieties about environmental devastation in Africa and elsewhere. The article concludes that the most frightening aspect of these contemporary ‘plague tales' is the solutions they suggest to the ‘problem’ of a coming plague.

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Caraivan, Luiza. "Nadine Gordimer: Familiar Tales From South Africa." Romanian Journal of English Studies 11, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 71–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0009.

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Abstract The paper analyses the new perspectives in Nadine Gordimer’s writings, focusing on her post-Apartheid works. The concepts of home, relocation, cultural diversity, violence and the issue of the Other are examined, as they represent the key factors in defining and understanding South Africa and its multicultural and multiracial communities.

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Heuser, Andreas. "Memory Tales: Representations of Shembe in the Cultural Discourse of African Renaissance." Journal of Religion in Africa 35, no. 3 (2005): 362–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1570066054782315.

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AbstractThe discourse on African Renaissance in South Africa shapes the current stage of a post-apartheid political culture of memory. One of the frameworks of this negotiation of the past is the representation of religion. In particular, religious traditions that formerly occupied a marginalised status in Africanist circles are assimilated into a choreography of memory to complement an archive of liberation struggle. With respect to one of the most influential African Instituted Churches in South Africa, the Nazareth Baptist Church founded by Isaiah Shembe, this article traces an array of memory productions that range from adaptive and mimetic strategies to contrasting textures of church history. Supported by a spatial map of memory, these alternative religious traditions are manifested inside as well as outside the church. Against a hegemonic Afrocentrist vision, they are assembled from fragments of an intercultural milieu of early Nazareth Baptist Church history.

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de Frey, A. "Expatriates in Africa: Repatriation tales from the bush." International Journal of Infectious Diseases 21 (April 2014): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2014.03.587.

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Behr-Glinka, Andrei. "African Stories about Snake-Man: an experience of intertextual approach." Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, no. 2 (April 30, 2021): 263–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.55086/sp212263306.

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The article analyzes plot forms of African tales related to the concept of snake-man and his function as a marriage partner. The author uses the intertextual approach, which allowed placing texts of fairy tales in interethnic cultural context, as well as the interdisciplinary approach (i.e. a combination of folklore and ethnographic material from Sub-Saharan Africa). These approaches allow tracing the geographical distribution of the studied plots on the continent, as well as to understand the semantics of individual fairy tales motifs, which are completely divorced from their cultural context in parallel plots of Eurasian folklore, where they exist within the framework of the “fairy tale” genre. The paper demonstrates existence of a close connection between tales and myths, ritual complexes, practices of initiations and social institutions, which make up a single semantic field, individual aspects of which exist in close interconnection.

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Viljoen, H., and E. Hentschel. "Tales of transition." Literator 18, no. 3 (April 30, 1997): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v18i3.546.

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In this article the rationale of this special issue is provided and the different contributions are introduced. The assumption is that there are strong similarities between the recent political and social transitions in South Africa and Germany and the reactions, both emotional and literary, of the people involved. Broadly, the transitions are described as a movement from external (or violent) to internal (or ideological) social control, though this must be modified by the various constructions the contributors put on the transition. The main themes and questions of the transitions are synthesized, highlighting the marked similarities the different contributions reveal. The most important of these are the relation to the past, problems of identity, projections of the new and the internal contradictions of nationalist discourse (which informs the process of transition). In conclusion, the similarities and differences between the two transitions indicated by this special issue, are discussed. The assumption of strong similarities between the two seems to hold, it is argued, but much more research into the matter is needed.

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Anderson, Brianna, and Brandon Murakami. "Creating Space for Black Girl Power in Fred Crump, Jr.’s Transformative Fairy Tales." International Research in Children's Literature 16, no. 3 (October 2023): 307–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2023.0526.

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Between the 1980s and 2007, Fred Crump, Jr., published over twenty picturebooks that retell popular fairy tales with Black characters. These transgressive texts celebrate the African diaspora and enable his implied audience of young Black readers to see themselves as heroes in the still primarily ‘all-White world of children’s books’ (Larrick 63). However, by resituating the fairy tales in a fantastical Pan-African setting, Crump also risks perpetuating stereotypes about Africa, even if his characters provide much-needed positive representations for young Black readers. In this article, we examine several of Crump’s Africanised picturebooks that demonstrate a spectrum of transformative – and, in some cases, problematic – adaptive strategies that the author used to liberate the fairy tale for Black readers and promote Black girl power.

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Pollio, Andrea. "Making the silicon cape of Africa: Tales, theories and the narration of startup urbanism." Urban Studies 57, no. 13 (January 14, 2020): 2715–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098019884275.

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Silicon alleys, hills, peaks, beaches, savannahs, islands, lagoons and gulfs have mushroomed across cities of all continents, in the hope of fuelling profitable, innovative startup hubs. These Silicon-Valley replicas deploy economic theories, managerial fads, success stories and best practices that are metonymically linked to Northern California, but they also draw upon local arrangements of heterogeneous constituents: policy experts, entrepreneurs, reports, IT infrastructures, universities, coworking spaces, networking protocols and so forth. The making of one such ecosystem, Cape Town’s so-called ‘silicon cape’, is the topic of this article, which, however, does not try to uncover the specific economic and geographic factors of tech clustering. Rather, it addresses some of the narrative discourses that have framed Cape Town as the entrepreneurial capital of South Africa and Africa at large. It shows how these narrative praxes are both reflexive and ontological: they at once work as metatheories of entrepreneurial innovation in an African city and lay the groundwork for its very possibility. Via an ethnographic engagement of these textual discourses in the making, this article charts the uneasy relationship between technocapitalism and economic development in a city scarred by its colonial past and its racialised inequalities. In doing so, it shows how the discursive making of the silicon cape of Africa mobilised multiple economic sentiments, weaving together the search for profitable technology-based economies and the demand for social justice in a city of the Global South.

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Vajić, Nataša. "The Trickster’s Transformation – from Africa to America." European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research 10, no. 1 (May 19, 2017): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejser.v10i1.p133-137.

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One of the most favorite characters in many African myths and folk tales is definitely a trickster. As a part of the African cultural heritage, the trickster has an important place in the cultures of many African nations. He is an entertainer, teacher, judge and a sage. Many comic aspects of life are brought together through the trickster, as well as serious social processes. He rewards and punishes. He is a deity and an ordinary man, if not an animal. During the Middle Passage Era he goes along with his suffering people to the New World. New circumstances require him to change and assume new forms. He has to be a rebel and a protector of his people due to slavery and violation of human rights. So, from comical spider and monkey back in Africa, we now have new characters such as Railroad Bill, Brother John, Br’er Rabbit and many hoodoo doctors. African oral tradition is transformed and becomes the basis for African-American literature.

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Brenner, Louis, and V. Y. Mudimbe. "Tales of Faith: Religion as Political Performance in Central Africa." Journal of Religion in Africa 30, no. 4 (November 2000): 499. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1581591.

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Cumpsty, John, and V.-Y. Mudimbe. "Tales of Faith: Religion as Political Performance in Central Africa." Canadian Journal of African Studies 33, no. 2/3 (1999): 716. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/486291.

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Ofcansky, Thomas P., Gwynneth Latham, Michael Latham, and John Russell. "Kilimanjaro Tales: The Saga of a Medical Family in Africa." African Studies Review 39, no. 2 (September 1996): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/525459.

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Livingston, Julie, Michael Latham, and Gwynneth Latham. "Kilimanjaro Tales: The Saga of a Medical Family in Africa." International Journal of African Historical Studies 30, no. 1 (1997): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/221564.

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STEELE, M. "Tales of Faith: Religion as political performance in Central Africa." African Affairs 97, no. 387 (April 1, 1998): 279–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a007938.

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KALENGE, MICHAEL. "Endogenous Environmental Conservation Awareness in Sangu Oral Tales." JOURNAL OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION OF TANZANIA 42, no. 2 (December 31, 2022): 53–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.56279/jgat.v42i2.186.

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African culture is a rich reservoir of varying degrees of information. It encompasses unique knowledge originating from within Africa, which is reflected in its people’s traditions and customs. This knowledge engrafts and provides solutions to a myriad of problems. Among others, it provides solutions to compelling environmental challenges like land degradation, water and air pollution, global warming and climate change. This paper presents a textual analysis of five (5) Sangu oral tales that represent ecological knowledge and practices of the Sangu people. This is done as a way to unriddle the ongoing environmental enigma in the Usangu plain, and the world at large. The tales under scrutiny are: Umutwa na Avatambule Vaakwe (‘The Chief and His Sub-chiefs’); iNjokha wiita Nguluvi (‘Snakes like God’); Munego (‘A Trap’); iJungwa Sikhandi Vaanu (‘Elephants Were Once Human Beings’); and Amagulu ga Nguluvi (‘The Feet of God’). A total of twenty (20) tales were collected qualitatively through one-on-one in-depth interviews with Sangu storytellers; and then through content analysis method: all of which found the five aforementioned tales fit for the subject matter. The results show that the telling of the oral stories is not just an occasion but also a display of skills and knowledge of a particular people, and that the solutions to the current global environmental crisis lie in people’s traditions as expressed in their environment-related oral narratives.

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Beek, Jan. "CYBERCRIME, POLICE WORK AND STORYTELLING IN WEST AFRICA." Africa 86, no. 2 (April 6, 2016): 305–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972016000061.

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ABSTRACTIn West Africa, both cyber fraud and cyber policing are mainly about storytelling. Based on fieldwork in the Ghanaian police, this article explores criminal investigations of email scams; it shows how actors rely on, make use of, lose faith in and reinvent stories. Each cyber fraud case can be understood as a series of connected tales, and all involved try to change the direction of the narrative. While the first tale takes place in virtual spaces between continents, the later ones are located in Ghana and are about police work there. The actors' stories both tap into and create social imaginaries, and the involved actors thereby craft conflicting notions of order and disorder. However, not only the fraudsters' stories but also the police officers' and victims' stories are often factually inaccurate and are partly fictional. Ultimately, all actor groups struggle to create believable stories under current conditions.

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Tsampiras, Carla. "Two Tales about Illness, Ideologies, and Intimate Identities: Sexuality Politics and AIDS in South Africa, 1980–95." Medical History 58, no. 2 (April 2014): 230–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2014.7.

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AbstractThis article focuses on the micro-narratives of two individuals whose responses to AIDS were mediated by their sexual identity, AIDS activism and the political context of South Africa during a time of transition. Their experiences were also mediated by well-established metanarratives about AIDS and ‘homosexuality’ created in the USA and the UK which were transplanted and reinforced (with local variations) into South Africa by medico-scientific and political leaders.The nascent process of writing South African AIDS histories provides the opportunity to record responses to AIDS at institutional level, reveal the connections between narratives about AIDS and those responses, and draw on the personal stories of those who were at the nexus of impersonal official responses and the personal politics of AIDS. This article records the experiences of Dennis Sifris, a physician who helped establish one of the first AIDS clinics in South Africa and emptied the dance floors, and Pierre Brouard, a clinical psychologist who was involved in early counselling, support and education initiatives for HIV-positive people, and counselled people about dying, and then about living. Their stories show how, even within government-aligned health care spaces hostile to gay men, they were able to provide support and treatment to people; benefited from international connections with other gay communities; and engaged in socially subversive activities. These oral histories thus provide otherwise hidden insights into the experiences of some gay men at the start of an epidemic that was initially almost exclusively constructed on, and about, gay men’s bodies.

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Whitaker, Jennifer Seymour, and Thomas A. Bass. "Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa." Foreign Affairs 69, no. 3 (1990): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20044486.

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Bernard, Patrick. "Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 49, no. 2 (2003): 361–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2003.0011.

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Caddick-Adams, Peter. "Tunisian Tales: The 1st Parachute Brigade in North Africa, 1942-43." Global War Studies 10, no. 1 (June 1, 2013): 98–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5893/19498489.10.01.03.

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Beningfield, Jennifer. "Telling tales: building, landscape and narratives in post-apartheid South Africa." Architectural Research Quarterly 10, no. 3-4 (December 2006): 223–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135506000327.

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Al-Ghalith, Asad, Asma Nashwan, Saif Al-Deen Al-Ghammaz, Musa Alzghoul, and Mahmoud Al-Salti. "The Treatment of Women in Selected Works by Bessie Head." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 14, no. 4 (July 1, 2023): 968–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1404.14.

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The role of women in Africa is one of the most notable issues in modern African literature. African novelists focus on roles held by women in the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods, alongside the effect of colonization on African women. This study is a serious attempt at providing a comprehensive analytical investigation of the role of women in Bessie Head’s selected works: When Rain Clouds Gather (1969), The Collector of Treasures, and Other Botswana Village Tales (1977). It demonstrates how traditional societies and colonizers treat African women and the influence of Head’s personal life and background on her literary works. Various studies focus on the issue of women using the feminist approach. This study, however, concentrates on women's issues using feminist and post-colonial theories.

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Wels, Harry. "Multi-species ethnography: methodological training in the field in South Africa." Journal of Organizational Ethnography 9, no. 3 (September 17, 2020): 343–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/joe-05-2020-0020.

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PurposeTo further develop research methodologies for multi-species ethnographic fieldwork, based on researcher's experiences with multi-species fieldwork in private wildlife conservancies in South Africa and inspired by San tracking techniques.Design/methodology/approachReflections on methodological lessons learnt during multi-species ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa. The approach is rather “Maanenesque” in telling various types of tales of the field. These tales also implicitly show how all-encompassing ethnographic fieldwork and its accompanying reflexivity are; there is never time for leisure in ethnographic fieldwork.FindingsThat developing fieldwork methodologies in multi-species ethnographic research confronts researchers with the explicit need for and training in multi-sensory methods and interpretations, inspired by “the art of tracking” of the San.Originality/valueComes up with a concrete suggestion for a sequence of research methods for multi-species ethnography based on the trials and tribulations of a multi-species ethnographer's experiences in South Africa and inspired by San tracking techniques.

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Saunders, Robert A. "Reimagining the colonial wilderness: ‘Africa’, imperialism and the geographical legerdemain of the Vorrh." cultural geographies 26, no. 2 (November 11, 2018): 177–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474018811669.

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Novelists and other cultural producers have long employed the African continent as a palimpsest to construct fantastical tales. From Sir John Mandeville to Joseph Conrad, Africa’s blank spaces on the map have been filled with monstrous creatures that fuel the western imagination. As a consequence, this constant othering of the so-called ‘Dark Continent’ has had a deleterious impact for African states and their citizenries, as spectacularly evidenced in U.S. President Donald Trump’s now-infamous labelling of the entire continent as a host of ‘shithole countries’. This article wrestles with the continuation of this trend in popular culture via an empirical examination of the speculative fiction of the British novelist and performance artist, B. Catling. Publishing in 2015, The Vorrh is the first of the three novels set in a parallel Africa, specifically a former German colony that is home to remnants of the Garden of Eden. Focusing on the enchanted forest known as the Vorrh and the colony’s (fictional) capital, Essenwald, this article employs methods drawn from geocriticism and popular geopolitics to interrogate Catling’s built-world. This is done with the aim of connecting structures of iteration in the representation of fictional ‘Africas’ to the West’s imperially inflected geopolitical codes towards the actual physical and human geographies that constitute the world’s second largest and most populous continent.

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Basell, Laura, Abdallah Khamis Ali, Ella Egberts, Behnam Firoozi-Nejad, Nicholas Mellor, and Mark Horton. "LASER SCANNING SHIHRAZAD’S BATHS: 1001 TALES OF ZANZIBAR NIGHTS." Antiquaries Journal 100 (June 17, 2020): 340–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581520000013.

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This article presents the first archaeological survey of the ornate Kidichi baths on Zanzibar. The baths were built either for or by Shihrazad, a wife of Zanzibar’s nineteenth-century ruler Said bin Sultan (1806–56). Laser scanning the ornate plaster stucco clarified two inscriptions, the precise meaning of which had been lost. By combining archaeological survey results with historical research and a translation of the inscriptions, a new narrative is presented in which the main protagonist is, unusually, female. Her story raises a host of questions relating to heritage, gender, religion and politics in modern-day Africa and beyond.

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Westley, David. "Dimu: An Ancient Character in Modern Bantu Language Tales." Fabula 63, no. 3-4 (November 1, 2022): 343–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fabula-2022-0020.

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Abstract This article begins with a table which shows modern words for “ogre”, e. g., zimu in Zulu, irimu in Kikuyu and dimo in Sotho, in Bantu language tales and relates them to the Proto-Bantu term, dimu. Using insights from depth psychology, Aarne-Thompson-Uther classification and, especially, performance theory, the paper examines the character of the ogre in a number of theoretical areas. These include the relationship between tradition and creativity, the development of narrative meaning and how the ogre functions as a symbol with special reference to stories found in eastern and southern Africa.

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Barr, Helen. "Stories of the New Geography." Journal of Medieval Worlds 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 79–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jmw.2019.100005.

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The Refugee Tales project holds a distinctive place amongst 20th and 21st century responses to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The project comprises collections of tales published in textual editions alongside a politically embodied campaign to call an end to the practice of indefinite detention of asylum seekers in the United Kingdom. The tales that are told take the form of an established writer giving voice to those that are caught up in this inhuman process. Some of the oral narratives come from refugees, some from care-workers and supporters, and some from from those caught up in the institutional processes of bureaucracy. These tales are heard and rehearsed on an annual walk that appropriates the pilgrimage route to a new geography that contests political space and its confinements. The project as a whole captures the spirit and purpose of Chaucer’s work. While engagement with textual detail is intermittent, but probing where it appears, this body of work, as Chaucer’s did, gives voice to those whose voices are unheard. The Refugee Tales pick up on how Chaucer integrated a narrative about England into an international geography—though with a difference. While Chaucer sets his stories chiefly outside the shores of England for literary purposes, The Refugee Tales appropriate the space of England to create a borderless nation that is hospitable to persons from Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and in fact a whole international diaspora of nations whose people have become displaced. The Refugee Tales takes its inspiration from Chaucer not to produce a quaint exercise in medievalism or to update his work as a solely intellectual exercise. This project engages minds, body, creativity and political will. International in its remit, it frees the Father of English poetry to kick over the traces of borders that would separate nation from nation, children from parents, and human beings from each other. The Refugee Tales digs deep into the spirit of the medieval past to face up to a pressing and urgent global challenge.

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Oliva, Ricardo, Chonghui Ji, Genelou Atienza-Grande, José C. Huguet-Tapia, Alvaro Perez-Quintero, Ting Li, Joon-Seob Eom, et al. "Broad-spectrum resistance to bacterial blight in rice using genome editing." Nature Biotechnology 37, no. 11 (October 28, 2019): 1344–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0267-z.

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Abstract Bacterial blight of rice is an important disease in Asia and Africa. The pathogen, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), secretes one or more of six known transcription-activator-like effectors (TALes) that bind specific promoter sequences and induce, at minimum, one of the three host sucrose transporter genes SWEET11, SWEET13 and SWEET14, the expression of which is required for disease susceptibility. We used CRISPR–Cas9-mediated genome editing to introduce mutations in all three SWEET gene promoters. Editing was further informed by sequence analyses of TALe genes in 63 Xoo strains, which revealed multiple TALe variants for SWEET13 alleles. Mutations were also created in SWEET14, which is also targeted by two TALes from an African Xoo lineage. A total of five promoter mutations were simultaneously introduced into the rice line Kitaake and the elite mega varieties IR64 and Ciherang-Sub1. Paddy trials showed that genome-edited SWEET promoters endow rice lines with robust, broad-spectrum resistance.

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Fordred-Green. "Tokoloshe Tales: Reflections on the Cultural Politics of Journalism in South Africa." Current Anthropology 41, no. 5 (2000): 701. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3596736.

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Giles-Vernick, Tamara, and Stephanie Rupp. "Visions of Apes, Reflections on Change: Telling Tales of Great Apes in Equatorial Africa." African Studies Review 49, no. 1 (April 2006): 51–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arw.2006.0067.

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Abstract:This article explores stories that some central Africans in the middle Sangha River basin and in northern Gabon have told about gorillas and chimpanzees. Such tales have provided opportunities for Africans to debate the consequences of their engagements with outside people, resources, and processes. But their meanings have proliferated in different social, cultural, and historical contexts. Central Africans have used such stories to make claims about access to and control over human productive and reproductive labor, forest resources and spaces, and other forms of wealth; racial and ethnic relations; and human existence and death. These stories provide critical insights into the reasons people hunt or protect great apes, and they illuminate the complex social and political tensions generated by conservation interventions. Great ape tales thus offer conservationists insights into the challenges and promise of managing an important game population, as well as the potential social consequences of their interventions.

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Zinn, Emily R. "Rediscovery of the Magical: On Fairy Tales, Feminism, and the New South Africa." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 46, no. 1 (2000): 246–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2000.0015.

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Jacobs, Krista, and Aslihan Kes. "The Ambiguity of Joint Asset Ownership: Cautionary Tales From Uganda and South Africa." Feminist Economics 21, no. 3 (July 14, 2014): 23–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2014.926559.

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Aarstad, Åsne Kalland, and Bruno Oliveira Martins. "Researching Private Security in Africa: Two Theoretical Orientations, Two Tales of Security Governance." Global Policy 9, no. 4 (October 8, 2018): 586–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12590.

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Chinyamurindi, Willie Tafadzwa, Tinashe Chuchu, and Eugine Tafadzwa Maziriri. "Tales of challenge and resolution: narratives of women middle managers in the South African public service." Gender in Management: An International Journal 37, no. 2 (October 18, 2021): 235–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-04-2021-0095.

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the challenges and resolution tactics of women middle managers in the South African public service. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research approach using semi-structured interviews was used as a data collection technique. Narrative analysis was used with a sample of 20 women middle managers working within the South African public service. Findings Narratives of challenges faced by women middle managers in the South African public service included relational issues, with a subtle undermining of women managers, challenges rooted within the socio-cultural milieu – perversely undermining the experience of being a manager and challenges stemming from public service in general such as corruption, in turn, questioning the ability of women managers to handle such. In addressing these challenges, the women middle managers exercised three individual performative actions in response to the identified challenges. These include using direct confrontation, relying on networks for guidance and relying on indirect confrontation. Research limitations/implications Sample size challenges feature as a notable limitation including the research being conducted in only one political province of South Africa. Caution should be exercised when seeking to generalise the findings to other contexts. Practical implications Understanding the challenges and resolution tactics of women middle managers can be a useful precursor to management development interventions. Originality/value The study answers call for more processual career and management development studies that help understand not only challenges but also resolution strategies. This study illustrates both the difficulty of this and ensures opportunity for the advancement of women in management.

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Casciano, Davide. "Popular tales of Pastors, Luxury, Frauds and Corruption." Journal of Extreme Anthropology 5, no. 2 (January 21, 2022): 52–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/jea.9008.

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Access to consumption, especially to objects that are challenging to obtain, is one of the features contributing to the successful spread of Pentecostalism in West Africa. Pentecostal pastors have become central public figures, ‘consumer stars,’ whose display of wealth and luxury is key to their social legitimacy as preachers of the Prosperity Gospel. Moreover, their extensive and flexible social networks allow them and other born-again Christians to be part of patronage networks internally perceived as moral. However, while their conspicuous consumption has inspired ecstatic supporters, it has also attracted criticism and accusations of fakery and corruption. This article aims to explore the relationships between consumption, especially conspicuous consumption, and discourses about the corruption of Pentecostalism in Nigeria. Accusations against Pentecostal pastors and their fraud schemes or corrupt practices seem to identify the moral limits between what is considered a righteous and an immoral consumption, describing the potential perils of purely individualistic hyper-consumerism. These popular tales of ‘fake pastors’, willing to do anything to enjoy a luxury life, allow us to understand how the born-again public is scrutinizing the opaque neoliberal entanglements between consumerism and corruption that characterize emerging elite’s actions in Nigeria and elsewhere.

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Quintero, Genevieve Jorolan, and Connie Makgabo. "Animals as representations of female domestic roles in selected fables from the Philippines and South Africa." Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South 4, no. 1 (April 28, 2020): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/sotls.v4i1.121.

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South Africa and the Philippines are home to a number of indigenous groups whose cultures and traditions have not been tainted by centuries of colonization. This paper compares the pre-colonial literature of cultural communities in two countries, where one is part of a continent (South Africa) while the other is an archipelago (the Philippines). Despite the differences in their geographical features, the two countries share common experiences: 1) colonized by European powers; 2) have a significant number of indigenous communities; 3) a treasury of surviving folk literature. Published African and Philippine folktales reveal recurring images and elements. One of these is the use of animals as characters, performing domestic tasks in households, and representing gender roles. This paper compares how animal characters portray feminine characteristics and domestic roles in selected fables from South Africa and the Philippines, specifically on the commonalities in the roles of the female characters. The research highlights the relevance of recording and publishing of folk literature, and the subsequent integration and teaching thereof within basic and higher education curricula.Key words: Indigenous, Cultural communities, fables, folk literature, Philippine folk tales, South African folk talesHow to cite this article:Quintero, G.J. & Makgabo, C. 2020. Animals as Representations of Female Domestic Roles in selected fables from the Philippines and South Africa. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. v. 4, n. 1, p. 37-50. April 2020. Available at:https://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=121This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Ellis, Gene. "In Search of a Development Paradigm: Two Tales of a City." Journal of Modern African Studies 26, no. 4 (December 1988): 677–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00015445.

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One of the most pressing problems confronting development planners in Africa is how to increase local supplies of fuelwood. As explained in a donorcommissioned report at the begining of the current decade:1. Not nearly enough trees are being planted to meet future rural and urban needs: during the next 20 years, ‘annual fuelwood planting will need to increase by about 15 times over current levels’, and even this assumes optimistically that ‘up to a fourth of future fuelwood demand will be met by conservation or… alternative fuels’. In fact, negligible resources are being devoted to establishing new ‘plantations of any significant size’.2

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Moreno García, Juan Carlos. "Egipto, Africa Nororiental y Oriente Medio durante la Edad del Bronce Temprano: Geopolítica e Intercambios." Mare Nostrum 13, no. 1 (December 23, 2022): 9–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v13i1p9-36.

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Egipto formaba parte de una tupida red de intercambios que conectaba Africa nororiental con Eurasia y el norte del Océano Índico durante la Edad del Bronce Temprano. Tradicionalmente se había supuesto que la monarquía egipcia había sido el motor fundamental de tales contactos mediante la organización de expediciones enviadas hacia los territorios vecinos, en busca de productos exóticos y preciosos. Sin embargo, las investigaciones más recientes revelan la importancia del tráfico de bienes modestos y la participación de actores privados, no institucionales. De ahí que tales intercambios no sólo no disminuyan tras la crisis de la monarquía a partir de 2160 antes de Cristo sino que incluso florezcan y fomenten tanto el aumento del tamaño de las ciudades como la intervención de poderes extranjeros en calidad de intermediarios y socios comerciales.

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Smith, N. J. C. "The Kilwa Coins of Sultan al-Ḥasan ibn Sulaymān in their Historical Context." KOINON: The International Journal of Classical Numismatic Studies 1 (January 1, 2018): 107–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.32028/k.v1i.1165.

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The history of sub-Saharan Africa is one which is not well known before the coming of the European age of exploration. This is primarily due to a lack of written sources, as many African societies preserved their histories as oral stories and traditions, rather than through writing. While this would have the benefit of kings being able to control information (via their court historians), it has left us with a lack of reliable source material. The oral stories can be used, but only with extreme caution (think of them as a generations-long telephone game, and one can understand how oral tales can be problematic). However, some of East Africa’s oral traditions, which were recorded in the 16th century, have been confirmed by numismatics.

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Eagle, Beyond. "Oil price volatility and macroeconomy: Tales from top two oil producing economies in Africa." Journal of Economic & Financial Studies 5, no. 04 (September 16, 2017): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.18533/jefs.v5i04.283.

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Cloete, Elsie. "Going on safari: the tales of two Koos Prinsloos." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 54, no. 1 (March 24, 2017): 5–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tvl.v.54i1.1.

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In Kiswahili, the word safari simply means going on a journey. This article is about journeys begun, aborted and ended by two people with the matching names of Koos Prinsloo. Koos Prinsloo Senior used his handwritten memoir about his journeys and hunting adventures as a symbolic reference to his masculinity and frontiersman status in Kenya at the height of British colonialism. Koos Prinsloo Junior, his Kenyan-born grandson, who left Kenya as a youngster and lived in South Africa, embarks on journeys where his short stories explore, amongst other issues, matters of homosexuality and notions of the father, power and colonial nostalgia. Koos Prinsloo Junior uses excerpts from his grandfather's memoir, descriptive references to his parents' past and present homes, mementos and trophies from the erstwhile British colony to provide a critique on bravado and male inadequacy. Using Veracinia's outline of circular and linear colonial narratives a contextual and historical background on Koos Prinsloo's grandfather's memoir and his hunting tales is provided by briefly examining settler life-writing from Kenya, the hunting safari and ideas of homecoming. Before turning to Prinsloo Junior' relevant short stories and examining his attempts to debunk ideas of colonial masculinity, patriarchy, nostalgia, and loss, the notion of going home, not feeling quite at home and homesickness are explored.

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Vansina, Jan. "Historical Tales (Ibiteekerezo) and the History of Rwanda." History in Africa 27 (January 2000): 375–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172121.

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Historical tales are the most abundant and the sources most used to reconstruct the history of the kingdoms of the area between the Great Lakes. This is especially true for the history of the Nyiginya kingdom in Rwanda, where such tales, preserved at the court as well as by local people on the hills, are even more abundant than anywhere else. It is not surprising then that they form the bedrock on which authors have built their reconstructions on the history of that kingdom. Yet little attention has been paid to a general critical examination of these tales. Here, and elsewhere in the region, their contents have generally been accepted as credible, after the arbitrary erasure of all references to passages judged to refer to miracles, after the arbitrary dismissal of the bits and the variants that do not conform to one's preferred version, and after either the exclusion of local “provincial” narratives, or as happened after 1960, the exclusion of all those that stemmed from the court. Such practices will simply not do.Because these tales form the bedrock of the history of the kingdom the Institute for Scientific Research in Central Africa (IRSAC) under my direction instituted a large collection of such sources between 1958 and 1962, and made them available in the original and in translation first in depots at Butare and Tervuren and later in 1973 on microfilm. Surprisingly enough, this collection as well as even major editions of other sources, have been completely ignored by most scholars working after 1960.

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Maluleke, Vukosi Linah, Cornelia Smith, and Makgatho. "Folktales and the Oral Tradition in the Grade 9 EFAL Classroom." JET (Journal of English Teaching) 9, no. 3 (November 3, 2023): 391–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.33541/jet.v9i3.4673.

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Folktales stem from the oral tradition passed down over generations by the people who recounted them. These tales form part of the prescribed syllabus, CAPS, in South Africa specifically for Grade 9 English First Additional (EFAL) learners. The study explored the perceptions of folktales by 9 learners and 9 teachers. It was a qualitative study using purposeful sampling and an interpretivist research paradigm. The theoretical lens employed was Vygotsky’s constructivist theory. The study found that there are conflicting views on learning African folktales in English. The former Apartheid system’s impact has not completely been forgotten and there were still negative attitudes towards English as the language of the oppressor. Yet participants claimed that folktales needed to be revived and teachers must use narratives closer to their home and culture. Learners were positive towards learning folktales but there were those who deemed the stories as too simple to study in Grade 9. Teacher participants however revealed that learners benefit in that they learn new vocabulary and also about other cultures and life. Keywords: perception, English folktales, Grade 9 learners, South Africa 171 words

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Miller, Paul T. "Black Studies, White Studies, and Afrocentrism." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 25, no. 1 (1997): 43–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700502522.

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It is with the continued advances in the discipline of African American (Black) Studies that this essay comes to life. Recent articles by Bunzel and Grossman take dubious aim at Black Studies, its instructors, and its organizing principles. Grossman is even so obtuse as to use Lefkowitz’s Not Out of Africa, a book with virtually no grounding in reality as it relates to African Studies, to help prove her misguided thoughts. The authors are not concerned with Black Studies so much as they are with the fear of losing the privileged position White studies maintains. They use their articles as a poor attempt to discredit or otherwise slander a discipline that they simply do not understand or even attempt to understand. Articles such as “Tales from the Black Studies Ghetto” and “Black Studies Revisited” are clear evidence of the fear and ignorance Eurocentric thinkers are gripped by when dealing with an Afrocentric paradigm.

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Berezkin, Yuri. "Sky-Maiden and World Mythology." IRIS, no. 31 (July 15, 2010): 27–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.35562/iris.2020.

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Traditions that share the least number of motifs are located in continental Eurasia and Melanesia. African mythologies are poor and stand nearer to the Indo‑Pacific than to the Continental Eurasian pole. The Indo‑Pacific mythology preserved its African core. In Continental Eurasia a new set of motifs began to spread after the Late Glacial Maximum. Both sets of motifs were brought to the New World. The Indo-Pacific complex predominates in Latin, the Continental Eurasian one in North America. Sky‑maiden tales, largely unknown in Africa and Australia, emerged in the Indo-Pacific borderlands of Asia. Both in Southeast Asia and in Latin America different images of the magic wife coexist (different birds, sky-nymphs, etc.), stories are often integrated into the anthropogenic myths. More specialized Swan-maiden stories spread across Northern Eurasia after the Late Glacial Maximum. Only Khori‑Buryat versions are related to actual mythology. Swan‑maiden was brought to America late by the Eskimo.

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