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Posted by sociolingo on December 11, 2007
African Historical Review
Routledge are delighted to announce a co-publishing partnership with UNISA press to publish African Historical Review.
www.informaworld.com/RAHR
Publisher: Routledge and UNISA
The African Historical Review is the successor to Kleio: A Journal of Historical Studies from Africa, which was published by the Department of History at the University of South Africa (Unisa) for more than thirty-five years. It therefore has a long and distinguished history.
Originally conceived as a research and teaching forum for histories taught in the Department and to promote the work of students and staff, the journal has more recently been transformed into a publication in which high quality articles on a wide variety of historical subjects have appeared. The outstanding level of professional research and writing displayed in the journal has been recognised internationally, and from 2004 it became an accredited academic journal in South Africa, earning subsidy from the Department of Education. It is being relaunched as the African Historical Review in order to attract both a broader readership and contributor base
and to showcase scholarship beyond southern Africa thus emphasising its intention to articulate southern African studies with continental African scholarship.
The African Historical Review is distinguished from other southern African historical journals in being independent of any professional society or association, thus encouraging a wider range of content and diversity of opinion, topic and authorship. Its mission, as befits its base in Africa and its new name, is to be transdisciplinary, responsive to theoretical developments in research relating to the the continent of Africa and within fields closely linked to historical and heritage studies (including teaching) more generally.
We welcome contributions from both established and younger scholars on themes from or in Africa, and would like to encourage innovative writing and research on a variety of topics and with an array of theoretical frameworks.
Print ISSN: 1753-2523; Online ISSN: 1753-2531
Editors:
Greg Cuthbertson (Chair)
Henriëtte Lubbe (Book Reviews)
Muchaparara Musemwa
Russel Viljoen
Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format.
Current Issue: Volume 39 Issue 1 2007
Date: 11 December 2007
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Posted by sociolingo on December 10, 2007
Seen on
DIGITAL AFRICAN RENAISSANCE
Opportunities for young researchers in Africa
Mon, 06 Aug 2007
We are calling all young people in Africa and the rest of the world to submit their researched article/writings to the email shown below as part of an effort by young South Africans to write about the New Media technologies and Society. The journal will be firstly published online, with the title ‘ICT in Society’. Please regard this as urgent and perhaps send some questions to the project coordinator, Mr. Phuti Mosoame on 011 809 0009 or mobile on 076 191 0405, email:phutism@gmail.com Issues covered; Internet as a key facilitator to the knowledge economy- Economy, Newspapers and the NET, Advertising and the Internet ,Internet and Digital Divide, Online journalism, Is blogging journalism, art and culture, e-commerce, e-governance, e-health, Internet and AIDS: getting the message, Internet and the environment-reducing global warming?, Science and technology: the relationship, and many more. Yours truly, Phuti Mosomane, Southern Africa Initiative.
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Posted by sociolingo on April 24, 2007
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Posted by sociolingo on April 19, 2007
From: Mukoma Wa Ngugi
<mwngugi@wisc.edu>
Kenyan Writers ? Call for Submissions
Ishmael Reed Publishing Co. is looking for new (and preferably not published elsewhere) short stories by Kenyan authors to be published in January, 2008. Please send your short story, accompanied by a short author biography, to the editor, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, at mukomangugi@yahoo.com with the subject heading, Kenya - new short fiction. The submission deadline is July 15th, 2007.
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Posted by sociolingo on April 13, 2007
SOUTH AFRICA: CALL FOR POETRY: AGENDA #73 BIOPOLITICS
http://www.agenda.org
Length of poetry contributions: Poems to fit a full page of the Agenda Journal. Deadline: 28 June 2007. All submissions must be emailed to editor@agenda.org.za For more information contact editor@agenda.org.za
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Posted by sociolingo on March 12, 2007
Source: Pambazuka News
Africa: New section on Africa in e-journal
2006-09-26
The e-journal Rural and Remote Health (RRH) is pleased to announce the launch of an African section of the journal. The journal provides free access to readers after registration, as well as free publication for authors. It is committed both to maintaining its standards as a Medline-listed journal and to supporting aspirant and more experienced authors from Africa to publish their work.
http://www.rrh.org.au/afro/defaultnew.asp
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Posted by sociolingo on March 9, 2007
The Southern Africa Media Diversity Journal
This journal intends to be a direct response to critiques that media coverage in Southern Africa is single-sourced and event driven. The journal seeks to recognise media diversity as a cornerstone of democracy and operates from the premise that the absence of a diverse media that is representative of the interests and concerns of all citizens is a threat to the region’s democracy and citizen’s ability to participate in democratic processes…
http://www.comminit.com/africa/materials/ma2007/materials-3166.html
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Posted by sociolingo on March 8, 2007
From WHO
WHO and UNAIDS Secretariat welcome corroborating findings of trials assessing impact of male circumcision on HIV risk
23 FEBRUARY 2007 | GENEVA — The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UNAIDS Secretariat welcome the publication today in The Lancet of the detailed findings of two trials undertaken in Kenya and Uganda to determine whether male circumcision has a protective effect against acquiring HIV infection.
Funded by the US National Institutes of Health, the trials were terminated early on 12 December 2006 on the recommendation of their Data and Safety Monitoring Board. The findings of the two trials support the results of the South Africa Orange Farm Intervention Trial, funded by the French National Agency for Research on AIDS (ANRS), which were published in late 2005. Together the three studies, which enrolled more than 10 000 participants, provide compelling evidence of a 50 to 60% reduction in heterosexual HIV transmission to men.
“These findings are a very important contribution to HIV prevention science. Male circumcision has major potential for the prevention of HIV infection”, said Kevin De Cock, Director of the WHO HIV/AIDS Department.
WHO and the UNAIDS Secretariat have convened an international consultation in early March to examine the results of the new trials and assess their policy and programmatic implications for countries. The consultation will address a range of policy, operational and ethical issues that will help guide decisions about where and how male circumcision can be best implemented, promoted and safely performed. Based on the recommendations of the experts, a statement will be issued.
For more information, please contact:
WHO
Tunga Namjilsuren
Tel: +41 22 791 1073
Mobile: +41 76 494 3239
E-mail: namjilsurent@who.int
UNAIDS
Yasmine Topor
Tel: +41 22 791 3501
Mobile phone: +41 76 512 8853
E-mail: topory@unaids.org
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Posted by sociolingo on March 7, 2007
Source: WAJIBU Volume 14 No 1 1999
AFRICAN MARRIAGE, PAST AND PRESENT
by G.J.Wanjohi
INTRODUCTION
Some people tend to think that all that is past or ancient is good, while others think that all that is new or modern is good. These are extreme viewpoints where truth is not likely to reside. As African proverbs have taught us, it is possible to make a synthesis of the two extremes and arrive at a mean or moderate position where truth is more likely to be found. It is from this perspective that I want to study African marriage.
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MARRIAGE IN AFRICAN TRADITION
An African proverb says that children are the adornment of the home. This, therefore, is one of the reasons why Africans marry. It is an aesthetic reason. Another reason is that children are an investment, especially in old age; so there is an economic reason for marriage. Then there is a metaphysical reason according to which man (male and female) is called upon by the ancestors to be a chain in the transmission of life.
It is especially the latter which makes African marriage an unavoidable duty, as we learn from the following proverbs of the Ankole and Kigezi:
The need for marriage made the dove fly and fly until it lay exhausted.
Sweating and marrying go hand in hand.
No one is too little for a cow, i.e., to obtain dowry and to marry.
When ripe, a banana is eaten and a girl is married 1
The view of African marriage expressed in these proverbs could lead one to make a hasty conclusion that African marriage is dictated only by necessity, depriving it of any freedom of choice. This is not at all the case, as we once again learn from the following Ankole-Kigezi proverbs
Before marrying, be informed; before arranging a marriage, consult a diviner. 2
Do not boast to your parents about your hasty marriage.
In African marriage, therefore, there is both necessity and freedom; necessity as to the fact, and freedom as to how to go about it.
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Posted by sociolingo on March 3, 2007
| Written by Victor van Reijswoud |
| Tuesday, 13 February 2007 |
 The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) has published a special issue containing a selection of the papers presented at the Conference on Information Technology and Economic Development 2006 (CITED2006), held at the University of Ghana, in July 2006. Of special interest is a paper on the potential impact of mobile on the socio-economic development process in African countries. In the paper, Transforming Recent Gains in the Digital Divide into Digital Opportunities: Africa and the Boom of the Mobile Phone Subscription by Peter A. Kwaku Kyem and Peter Kweku Lemaire, the authors draw on case studies to argue that mobile phones may help create new jobs and new sources of revenue to the state as well as contribute to economic growth by widening markets, creating better information flow, lowering transaction costs, and becoming substitutes for costly transportation that is lacking in rural Africa.
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Posted by sociolingo on February 28, 2007
Date: Wednesday, 28 February 2007
From: Routledge African Studies <african_studies.iofquchjqay@eupdates.msgfocus.com>
Routledge Launches the Journal of Eastern African Studies
Routledge Journals and the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) are proud to announce the launch of the Journal of Eastern African Studies on Thursday 8th March at St Antony’s College, Oxford.
The Journal of Eastern African Studies aims to promote fresh scholarly enquiry on the region from within the humanities and the social sciences, and to encourage work that ommunicates across disciplinary boundaries. Its broad coverage will encompass archaeology, anthropology, cultural
studies, development studies, economics, environmental studies, geography, history, international relations, literatures and languages, political economy, politics, social policy and sociology. With its multi-disciplinary focus, the Journal of Eastern African Studies will complement Azania, the original journal of the BIEA and the primary peer-reviewed publication for eastern African archaeology.
The journal will appear three times a year on both print and online formats. It is under the editorial direction of Professor David Anderson, University of Oxford, the BIEA’s Publications Officer. His fellow editors are Dr Hassan Arero, Horniman Museum, UK; Dr Joyce Nyairo, Moi University, Kenya; and Professor Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, University of Chicago.
Sample articles from the first issue (March 2007), including discussion of fascinating Victorian stereographs, will be available to downloaded soon at:
http://www.informaworld.com/RJEA
Professor John Mack, President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, said: ‘The BIEA is very pleased to be associated with this new initiative. Its aims of encouraging inter-disciplinary and truly international approaches to the Eastern Africa region respond to our ambitions to stimulate new perspectives and approaches both within the scholarly community and a wider public arena.’
Rod Cookson, publisher for African Studies Journals at Routledge, added: ‘We are delighted to be partnering the British Institute in Eastern Africa in this new venture. The Journal of Eastern African Studies will fill an important gap in our list and complement well-established titles such as the Journal of Southern African Studies and Review of African Political Economy. The journal will be a key title in an exciting and fast growing area of research, strengthening Routledge’s comprehensive African Studies
journal programme.’
Contacts:
Customer Services: Sarah Newton, +44 (0) 207 017 6148; e-mail: sarah.newton@tandf.co.uk
Publishing: Rod Cookson, +44 (0) 207 017 6296; e-mail:
rod.cookson@tandf.co.uk
Marketing: Alexis Goodyear, +44 (0) 2077 017 6422; e-mail:
alexis.goodyear@tandf.co.uk
*A public lecture by Professor Jocelyn Alexander entitled Prison memoirs and punishment in Zimbabwe at 5pm will be followed at 6.30pm by a reception. For more information please contact wanja.knighton@africa.ox.ac.uk
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Posted by sociolingo on February 25, 2007
From Development Gateway
Knowledge for Development - free access to selected articles from the international journal, Development in Practice! Articles from our themed November 2006 issue on Knowledge for Development, guest edited by Mike Powell, are available free online for a period of three months from 8 February. Contributors include Chris Addison, Antony Bryant, Reginald Cline-Cole, Sarah Cummings, Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, Anita Gurumurthy, Helen Hintjens, Firoze Manji, and Adebayo Olukoshi. Many other articles of related interest are also included. Take advantage of this special offer to keep up with current thinking and practice on Knowledge for Development. ‘Concise, reflective, and informative - a “must” for anyone working in development’, Professor Ian Scoones, IDS, University of Sussex.
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Posted by sociolingo on February 19, 2007
The Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (JTCC) now into its fourth
successful year continues to welcome submissions on all aspects of the
tourism-culture(s) relationships including papers which deal with the
following areas:
* Tourism and Spatial Relations (landscape, borders, peripherality,
sense of place etc);
* The Shaping of Identities through Travel (narrative
histories/heritage, displacement, exclusion, dependency, hybridity);
* Material Culture and Tourism Practice (souvenirs, art and crafts,
design and architecture, museums);
* Tangible and Intangible Heritage (heritage policy, World Heritage
Sites, folk cultures, festivals, custom and ritual);
* Cultural Politics (diasporic tourism, gender roles, post-colonial
legacies);
* Travel/Tourism and Tourist Histories (collective memory, travel
writings, oral histories);
* Tourist Behaviour and Experiences (aesthetic production/consumption,
embodiment, performance, linguistics, translation).
All papers are peer reviewed by a minimum of two experts
Articles may be submitted electronically. Text should be saved in the
author’s normal word processor format (please give the name of the program
used). Any Figures or Tables should be saved in separate files from the rest
of the text.
Electronic submissions should be sent by e-mail attachment to.
submissions@channelviewpubliations
<mailto:submissions@channelviewpublications.com> com, with the covering
message clearly stating the name of the journal concerned, on CD-ROM, or on
disc (IBM-PC compatible or high-density AppleMac) to:
The Editor, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, c/o Channel View
Publications, Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon BS21
7HH, England.
For further information, guidelines and library / institutional
subscriptions please visit:
http://www.multilingual-Matters.com/multi/journals/journals_jtcc.asp?TAG=
<http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/journals/journals_jtcc.asp?TAG=&C
ID> &CID=
Editors: Prof. Mike Robinson (Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds
Metropolitan University) m.d.robinson@leedsmet.ac.uk
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Posted by sociolingo on September 12, 2006
