Abstracts

Archaeology and Paleontology

0751. Austin, A., & Arnette, M.-L. (2022). Of ink and clay: Tattooed mummified human remains and female figurines from Deir el-Medina. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 63-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221130089

In some cases, the figurines and the women even share the same location of the tattoos on their body.

0752. Avery, D.M. (2021). Micromammals and the Late Quaternary of southern Africa. South African Journal of Geology, 124(4), 1073-1082. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0035

Blombos, Pinnacle Point, and Klasies River sites have clearly demonstrated that micromammalian data can contribute to multidisciplinary interpretations of past conditions.

0753. Bajeot, J., & Buchez, N. (2022). The Predynastic Egyptian fibrous ware (second half of the Fourth Millennium BC): A reassessment based on new analysis. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 159-176. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221135059

Fibrous Ware is characterized by its own unique technological tradition, which differs from that identified in the Lower Egyptian production.

0754. Beard, T.R., Reynard, J.P., Collins, B., & Ames, C.J.H. (2022).Faunal remains from Grassridge rock shelter, South Africa: Ecology and subsistence from the Pleistocene to the Holocene in the Eastern Cape Interior. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 77(217), 154-162.

Faunal evidence from Grassridge Rock Shelter points to the periodic use of the site possibly linked to seasonal occupations.

0755. Caruana, M.V., Wilson, C.G., Arnold, L.J., Blackwood, A.F., … Herries, A.I.R. (2023). A marine isotope stage 13 Acheulian sequence from the Amanzi Springs Area 2 Deep Sounding excavation, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 176, 103324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103324

Amanzi Springs represents a workshop locality that Acheulean hominins repeatedly visited to access unique floral, faunal, and raw materials.

0756. Cemetery, S., & Hamilton, J.C.F. (2022). Satinteti’s Offering Table: A reused block from Princess Watetkhethor Zeshzeshet’s Chapel in the Teti Pyramid. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 93-103. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221090545

Satinteti may have deliberately sought a block from the chapel of an earlier, eminent woman in the completion of her own monument.

0757. Chelli-Cheheb, R., & Merzoug, S. (2023). The Aterian site of Phacochères (northern Algeria): A zooarchaeological perspective. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 58(1), 5-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2023.2187559

The Aterian occupants of the site preferentially oriented their hunting towards large prey such as buffalo and aurochs.

0758. Daraojimba, K.C., Babalola, A.B., Brittain, M., Adeyemo, E., … Sulas, F. (2022). Expanding space and time at Igbo-Ukwu: Insights from recent fieldwork. African Archaeological Review, 39(4), 437-459. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-022-09499-1

Fieldwork at Igbo-Ukwu uncovered pottery, wood charcoal of Vitex sp., and evidence of the palm oil tree.

0759. Denbow, J., & Wilmsen, E.N. (2023). Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 1: the southern Delta sites Mat82 and Matlapaneng plus Qogana on the region’s eastern margin. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 58(1), 34-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2023.2182563

Pottery recovered from the Delta sites is shown to be a western expression of the eastern Kalundu tradition.

0760. Diamond, K.A. (2022). The sartorial choices of Sobekneferu: Louvre statue E 27135. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 213-229. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221138861

Sobekneferu’s sartorial choices enabled her to craft visibly an authoritative image of herself as king.

0761. Edwards, T.R., Pickering, R., Mallett, T.L., & Herries, A.I.R. (2023). Challenging the antiquity of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: Geochronological evidence restricts the age of Eurotomys bolti and Parapapio to less than 2.3 Ma at Waypoint 160, Bolt’s Farm. Journal of Human Evolution, 178, 103334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103334

Our chronology for Waypoint 160 challenges the presence of older, early to mid-Pliocene deposits >3.20 Ma in the Gauteng portion of the Cradle.

0762. Enany, A. (2022). Towards sunrise: Innovations in the representations of the swallow in the funerary papyri of the Twenty-First Dynasty. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 123-141. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221130370

I classify those representations into two divisions: Chapter 86 of the Book of the Dead and the bird on the prow of the morning solar boat.

0763. Fannin, L.D., Swedell, L., & McGraw, W.S. (2023). Enamel chipping and its ecological correlates in African papionins: Implications for hominin feeding behavior. Journal of Human Evolution, 177, 103330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103330

The large differences in chipping frequency may instead reflect habitat use and food processing idiosyncrasies.

0764. Fletcher, R., Barham, L., Duller, G., & Jain, M. (2022). Nothing set in stone: Chaines operatoires of Later Stone Age sequences from the Luangwa valley and Muchinga Escarpment, Zambia. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 77(217), 89-114.

Knapping strategies included the production of bladelets and use of expedient flaking.

0765. Forssman, T., Kuhlase, S., Barnard, C., & Pentz, J. (2023). Foragers during a period of social upheaval at Little Muck Shelter, southern Africa. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 58(1), 114-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2023.2182572

At Mapungubwe there is evidence of social hierarchies, élite groups, trade wealth, craft specialization, and a royal leadership system.

0766. Hassan, K. (2022). The Book of the Dead manuscripts of the Lady Hatnefer in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo: Two hieratic papyri and one leather roll (TR-No. 25–1–55–6). The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 45-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221141908

Three hieratic manuscripts from the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty belong to the lady Hatnefer, the mother of the renowned Senenmut.

0767. Kabir, Z., & Nasidi, N.A. (2022). A historical survey of Karofi abandoned settlement, Dutsen-Ma, Katsina State, Nigeria. International Journal of Modern Anthropology, 2(18), 1031-1043. https://doi.org/10.4314/ijma.v2i18.6

We found house and granary foundations, collapsed defensive walls, grinding stones, dye pits, potsherds, and iron slag.

0768. Karev, E. (2022). “Mark them with my mark”: Human branding in Egypt. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 191-203. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221130094

Identification of these marks as brands emphasizes the dehumanization of these enslaved persons.

0769. Kopp, P. (2022). Jewellery workshops on Elephantine. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 249-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221142902

Various stages of a production line show how the ostrich eggshells were made into beads.

0770. Lange-Athinodorou, E., & Es-Senussi, A. (2022). First preliminary report on the excavations in the Ka-Temple of Pepi I in Tell Basta/Bubastis: The discovery of a residential building of the Fourth and Fifth dynasties. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 23-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221117174

At the beginning of the Sixth Dynasty, the Ka-temple of Pepi I was erected on the levelled remains of the provincial palace.

0771. Lotter, M.G. (2022). Final piece(s) of the puzzle: The remaining artefacts at Penhill Farm, South Africa, and their significance for understanding lithic production. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 77(217), 140-153.

Using techno-typological and morphometric-based analyses, I provide clarity on raw material preferences and variability.

0772. McIntosh, S.K., & Cartwright, C.R. (2022). Igbo-Ukwu textiles: AMS dating and fiber analysis. African Archaeological Review, 39(4), 405-418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-022-09502-9

Textiles were woven from bast fibers from a fig tree (Ficus genus) and leaf fibers from Raphia sp.

0773. Mekawy Ouda, A.M. (2022). The shabtis of Tjuyu (CG 51037–51040). The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 81-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221120833

I explore the state of preservation of Tjuyu’s shabtis as well as their inscriptions.

0774. Negash, E.W., & Barr, W.A. (2023). Relative abundance of grazing and browsing herbivores is not a direct reflection of vegetation structure: Implications for hominin paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Journal of Human Evolution, 177, 103328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103328.

We caution against a simplistic wooded vs. grassland paleoenvironmental interpretations based on fossil herbivore assemblages.

0775. Nifosi, A. (2022). The throw of Isis-Aphrodite: A rare decorated knucklebone from the Metropolitan Museum of New York. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 177-189. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221137365

Decorated knucklebones in this area were from play and divination to Orphic rituals and local religious festivals.

0776. O’Brien, K., Hebdon, N., & Faith, J.T. (2023). Paleoecological evidence for environmental specialization in Paranthropus boisei compared to early Homo. Journal of Human Evolution, 177, 103325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103325

Paranthropus boisei likely did not feed on a spatially widespread C4 resource like the leaves, seeds, or rhizomes of grass.

0777. Olabarria, L. (2022). The power of convention: Reinterpreting social groups through a Middle Kingdom statuette. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 143-157. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221141909

The object can be inserted within the monumental vocabulary of the celebration of relatedness.

0778. Potter, D.M. (2022). A note on modern (fake) shabtis as tourist art. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 279-286. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221101079

The shabtis’ combination of historical styles, nonsensical inscriptions, and material composition clearly characterize them as modern productions.

0779. Rampersad, S.R. (2022). Potmarks as a rationing system on Egyptian food producing sites: Defining Egypt’s proto-bureaucracy. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 108(1-2), 105-122. https://doi.org/10.1177/03075133221119822

The invention of potmarks is seen as an administrative “first response” to meet an urgent need for order and control.

0780. Sadr, K. (2022). The stone towers of Kweneng in Gauteng province. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 77(217), 115-126.

The stone towers are always paired with another type of structure, the corbelled stone hut.

0781. Sandel, A.A., Negrey, J.D., Arponen, M., Clark, I.R., … Ivaska, K.K. (2023). The evolution of the adolescent growth spurt: Urinary biomarkers of bone turnover in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Human Evolution, 177, 103341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103341

Biologists should avoid claiming that the adolescent growth spurt is uniquely human.

0782. Siteleki, M. (2022). Detecting ash middens using remote sensing techniques: The case of Southern Gauteng, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 77(217), 163-171.

The high reflectance of ash middens relative to other land-cover classes indicates that they have distinct spectral signatures.

0783. Stamos, P.A., & Alemseged, Z. (2023). Hominin locomotion and evolution in the Late Miocene to Late Pliocene. Journal of Human Evolution, 178, 103332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103332

Early hominins engaged in a considerable amount of arboreality even after Australopithecus had become a habitual biped.

0784. Wang, Q., Craddock, P., & Hudson, J. (2022). A metallographic study of objects and fragments from the site of Igbo Isaiah, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria. African Archaeological Review, 39(4), 419-435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-022-09500-x

Some objects from Igbo-Ukwu were lost-wax (cire perdue) castings of bronze or leaded bronze.

0785. Wilmsen, E.N., & Denbow, J. (2023). Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 2: The Xaro sites in the Panhandle of the river-delta system. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 58(1), 74-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2023.2182570

Xaro burials provide aDNA data on Early Iron Age people in southern Africa.

0786. Wilmsen, E.N., & Denbow, J. (2023). Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 3: Lotshitshi, a Later Stone Age/Bambata/Recent site on the Delta margin. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 58(1), 104-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2023.2184660

Lotshitshi adds valuable details to our knowledge of Bambata pottery-making peoples with cattle.

Arts (Dance, folklore, graphic arts, music)

0787. Apaah, F. (2023). Tete wↄ bi ka, tete wↄ bi kyerɛ: Pius Agyemang’s sacred music and Ghana’s Catholic liturgical inculturation. Journal of Africana Religions, 11(1), 77-97.

These songs are not just literary texts, but indigenous theology in action that expresses religious understanding and reflections.

0788. Auret, H. (2022). Rescripting colonial landscapes: the Prince’s Rose Garden in Bloemfontein. South African Journal of Art History, 37(1), 12–30.

The decolonization of colonial landscapes implies a rescriptive process in which inceptual disciplines are venturesomely questioned.

0789. Coetzer, N. (2022). Competing architectural visions of the city: Perspectival tensions between Webb’s 500 Days of Summer (2009) and Coppola’s Lost in Translation (2004). South African Journal of Art History, 37(1), 1–11.

Architects might work tactically through more localized place-moments rather than through totalizing planometric or cityscape visions.

0790. García, L.P. (2023). Films in transition: The rhetorical embodiment of the Years of Lead in Moroccan cinema (2000–2018). The Journal of North African Studies, 28(2), 325-346. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2022.2028624

The films mostly consider post-prison life, probably in response to the need to overcome the pain and trauma left behind.

0791. Judge, M. (2022). Escaping seascape at the shoreline of Toamasina in Madagascar. South African Journal of Art History, 37(1), 70–84.

I argue for an alternative to overly land-based, modernist categorizations and viewpoints of the oceanic.

0792. Mohulatsi, M. (2023). Black aesthetics and deep water: Fish-people, mermaid art and slave memory in South Africa. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 35(1), 121-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2169909

I argue that the watermeisie as nomadic figure provides us with a speculative re-mapping of slave memory.

0793. Ndaka, F.M. (2023). Lyrical renegades: Reframing narratives of the Covid-19 pandemic in Kenyan urban margins through hip-hop. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 35(1), 89-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2169910

The artists present Nairobi’s margins as war zones where several pandemics intersect.

0794. Steyn, G. (2022). Sites, shapes and status of some historic forts on Africa’s south and east coasts. South African Journal of Art History, 37(1), 48–69.

Five forts located on Africa’s eastern and southern seaboard are investigated in terms of landscape, cityscape and seascape.

Ecology (Flora, fauna, primates)

0795. Adekanmbi, O.H., Ogundipe, O.T., & Okwong, J.W. (2022). Palynological investigation of crimes in Lagos, Nigeria. Ife Journal of Science, 24(1), 35-44.

The palynomorphs retrieved from clothing and nostrils were able to link the suspects to crime scenes.

0796. Ahamed, A.N., Yaser, S.M., Idhris, S.M., Padusha, M.S.A., & Sherif, N.A. (2023). Phytochemical and pharmacological potential of the genus Plectranthus—A review. South African Journal of Botany, 154, 159-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2023.01.026

Plectranthus is antibacterial, antifungal, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, antiurolithiactic, and anthelminthic.

0797. Ajayi, I.I., Olawuyi, O.J., & Ayodele, A.E. (2022). Variability studies on qualitative and quantitative characters of Mangifera indica Linn. (mango) in Oyo State, Nigeria. Ife Journal of Science, 24(1), 141-161.

We investigated the variation among 36 accessions of mango collected from the genebank.

0798. Anane, N.D., Ayizanga, R., Sarkwa, F.O., Ansah, T., & Timpong-Jones, E.C. (2023). Spatial variability of herbage yield, grazing capacity and plant diversity in a tropical savannah rangeland ecosystem. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 40(1), 71-84. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2023.2171127

There was spatial heterogeneity in herbage yield, grazing capacity, and species diversity in savannah rangelands.

0799. Arena, G., Hoffman, M.T., van der Merwe, H., & O’Connor, T.G. (2023). Expansion of the Grassland Biome in the eastern Karoo corresponds with changes in rainfall and livestock numbers. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 40(1),1-19. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2023.2175035

Rangeland condition, as indexed by estimates of grazing capacity, has improved significantly.

0800. Bamford, M.K. (2021). Pollen, charcoal and phytolith records from the Late Quaternary of southern Africa: Vegetation and climate interpretations. South African Journal of Geology, 124(4), 1047-1054. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0060

Sibudu Cave has a valuable multi-proxy record because the vegetation, climate, and human behavior are well integrated.

0801. Bashir, A.M.H., Abdelrahman, M.E., & Sinada, F.A. (2023). Water quality of the Blue Nile at Khartoum, Sudan, before complete filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(1), 28-48.

Accumulation of pollutants in the Blue Nile may be problematic once the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is complete.

0802. Belkhiri, A., Sadki, M., Maliki, A., Moubchir, T., . . . Chahlaoui, A. (2023). Effect of season, habitat type and anthropogenic pressure on the bird diversity in the vineyards agroecosystems in the region of Fes-Meknes. African Journal of Ecology, 61(2), 289-297. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13112

Avian diversity changes with the seasons, being higher in winter, autumn, and spring than in the summer.

0803. Bouyahya, A., Chamkhi, I., El Menyiy, N., El Moudden, H., … El Omari, N. (2023). Traditional use, phytochemistry, toxicology, and pharmacological properties of Lavandula dentata L.: A comprehensive review. South African Journal of Botany, 154, 67-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2023.01.023.

Lavandula dentata L. is used to treat diabetes, inflammation, microbial infections, and other disordors.

0804. Brooks, M., Rose, S., Altwegg, R., Lee, A.T.K., … Thomson, R.L. (2022). The African Bird Atlas Project: A description of the project and BirdMap data-collection protocol. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 93(4), 223–232.

We introduce technical details of the database to inform researchers on how the data are gathered and curated.

0805. Cawthra, H.C., Bergh, E.W., Wiles, E.W., & Compton, J.S. (2021). Late Quaternary deep marine sediment records off southern Africa. South African Journal of Geology, 124(4), 1007-1032. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0059

The sedimentary records reviewed suggest fluctuations in climate and oceanographic circulation that are strongly correlated with the global benthic δ18O record.

0806. Connan, M., Schoombie, S., Schoombie, J., Dilley, B., & Ryan, P.G. (2022). Natural recolonisation of sub-Antarctic Marion Island by Common Diving Petrels Pelecanoides urinatrix. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 93(4), 271–279.

We suggest the elimination of cats allowed Common Diving Petrels to recolonize the island.

0807. Coulibaly, D., Tuo, Y., Kone, M., Soro, K.C., & Koua, K.H. (2023). Impact of land use patterns on bee communities in the north of Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa). African Journal of Ecology, 61(2), 330-335. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13110

Bee diversity is higher where the disturbance level is still low.

0808. Daboné, C., Ouéda, A., Thompson, L.J., Adjakpa, J.B., & Weesie, P.D.M. (2022). Local perceptions and sociocultural value of Hooded Vultures Necrosyrtes monachus in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 93(4), 233–247.

Vulture conservation could be aided by severely punishing poachers, supplying safe food, and preserving their habitat.

0809. Dalu, T., Stam, E.M., Ligege, M.O., & Cuthbert, R.N. (2023). Highways to invasion: Powerline servitudes as corridors for alien plant invasions. African Journal of Ecology, 61(2), 379-388. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13121

Powerline corridors could potentially trigger invasion success via disturbance as they act as pathways for arrival.

0810. Egun, M.K., & Oboh, I.P. (2023). Assessment of water quality for suitability and human health risk: A study of the Owan River, Edo State, Nigeria. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(1), 19–27.

Natural runoff and anthropogenic activities were identified as sources of pollutants within the watershed.

0811. Everatt, K.T., Kokes, R., Robinson, H., & Kerley, G.I.H. (2023). Optimal foraging of lions at the human wildlands interface. African Journal of Ecology, 61(2), 306-319. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13113

Lions showed the greatest selection for habitats with high occurrences of wild prey, specifically areas with kudu, then nyala, and buffalo.

0812. Finca, A., Linnane, S., Slinger, J., Getty, D., & Samuels, M.I. (2023). Implications of the breakdown in the indigenous knowledge system for rangeland management and policy: a case study from the Eastern Cape in South Africa. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 40(1), 47-61. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2022.2138973

Communal farmers have in-depth knowledge of their communal land, past and present rangeland management strategies, and changes in rangeland condition.

0813. Ganiyu, S.A., Olurin, O.T., & Adeyemi, A.A. (2022). Contamination status and source identification of heavy metals in the riverbank soils and sediments of Ona River, Ibadan, southwest Nigeria. Ife Journal of Science, 24(1), 73-89.

The investigated riverbank areas were mildly contaminated by assessed metals, thus posing a low ecological risk.

0814. Gara, T.W., Mpakairi, K.S., Nampira, T.C., Oduro Appiah, J., . . . Dube, T. (2023). Integrating RADAR and optical imagery improve the modelling of carbon stocks in a mopane-dominated African savannah dry forest. African Journal of Ecology, 61(2), 320-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13114

We stress the importance of integrating satellite data in vegetation biophysical assessment and monitoring.

0815. Gashure, S., & Wana, D. (2023). Spatiotemporal climate variability and trends in UNESCO designated Cultural Landscapes of Konso, Ethiopia. African Geographical Review, 42(2), 107-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1997611

We found a substantial spatiotemporal variability in drought events due to variations in rainfall and topography.

0816. Grenfell, S., & Grenfell, M. (2021). Characterising the late Quaternary facies stratigraphy of floodplains in South Africa. South African Journal of Geology, 124(4), 963-976. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0056

Coastal floodplain rivers are alluvial due to downcutting during the last glacial maximum and subsequent sedimentary infilling as sea levels rose.

0817. Gula, J., & Downs, C.T. (2023). Second-hand housing: A review of avian species using Hamerkop nests for breeding. African Zoology, 58(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2023.2188905

Nine species nested inside the nest chamber, and eight nested on top of the structure.

0818. Humphries, M.S. (2021). Elemental proxy evidence for late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in southern African sedimentary records: Interpretation and applications. South African Journal of Geology, 124(4), 1033-1046. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0046

Summer rainfall in the region responded predominantly to insolation forcing on glacial-interglacial timescales.

0819. Jallow, M., Dibba, M.L., Camara, F., Barber, D.R., . . . Thompson, L.J. (2022). Road counts reveal The Gambia’s West Coast region still has the densest population of Hooded Vultures Necrosyrtes monachus in Africa. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 93(4), 248–256.

In the non-breeding period vultures would not be confined to nests and populations should be at their highest.

0820. Kapula, V.K., Ndjaula, H.O.N., Hamutenya, S., & Iitembu, J.A. (2023). Southern mullets (Chelon richardsonii) as a potential biological indicator for mercury pollution in the Walvis Bay lagoon, Namibia. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(1), 77-83.

Our findings form a baseline for using southern mullets as biological indicators of meercury pollution.

0821. Knight, J. (2021). The late Quaternary stratigraphy of coastal dunes and associated deposits in southern Africa. South African Journal of Geology, 124(4), 995-1006. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0032

My framework provides a stratigraphic context to examine the relationship between coastal sand dunes and external forcing during the late Quaternary.

0822. Le Roux, J.P., Beckedahl, H.R., Grundling, A.T., & Sumner, P. (2023). Determining the distribution of wetlands across Eswatini. South African Geographical Journal, 105(1), 75-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2021.2021975

We apply a newly developed wetland mapping technique to provide baseline information on the potential distribution of wetlands.

0823. Lee, D.E., Lohay, G.G., Madeli, J., Cavener, D.R., & Bond, M.L. (2023). Masai giraffe population change over 40 years in Arusha National Park. African Journal of Ecology, 61(2), 345-353. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13115

We documented a 49% population decline and changes in the age distribution, adult sex ratio, reproductive rate, and movement patterns.

0824. Lidzhegu, Z., Ellery, W.N., & Mantel, S.K. (2023). The geomorphic origin of large wetlands in Africa’s elevated drylands: A Geographic Information System and Earth Observation approach. South African Geographical Journal, 105(1), 134-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2022.2030247

Satellite images identified geomorphic features, while digital elevation models were used for topographic analysis.

0825. Lira, A.F.A., Foerster, S.Í.A., & Badry, A. (2023). Living in a desert: Examining scorpion beta diversity in Egyptian drylands from a macroecological perspective. African Zoology, 58(1), 18-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2023.2188121

We found a reciprocal link between the region’s ecological history and the patterns of beta diversity observed in scorpion assemblages.

0826. Lottering, S.J., Mafongoya, P., & Lottering, L.T. (2023). Multi-stakeholder perceptions of drought utilizing a conceptual framework for drought. South African Geographical Journal, 105(1), 115-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2022.2154524

Drought is a relative concept and is experienced differently by individuals from different socio-economic backgrounds.

0827. Maguraushe, W., Mupangwa, J.F., Washaya, S., & Muchenje, V. (2023). Performance of goats browsing on Vachellia karroo encroached communal lands and open grasslands in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 40(1), 85-93. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2022.2123856

Larger herds of goats browsing Vachellia karroo performed better in comparison to those that grazed open grasslands.

0828. Mann, B.Q., Dalton, W.N., Jordaan, G.L., & Daly, R. (2023). Movement patterns and growth rate of Scotsman Polysteganus praeorbitalis (Sparidae) tagged in the Pondoland Marine Protected Area, Eastern Cape, South Africa. African Zoology, 58(1), 6-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2023.2170717

Reliable tag-recapture data can be used to provide a means of validating growth rates determined by other methods.

0829. Masuku, M.M., & Bhengu, A.S. (2021). The value of indigenous foods in improving food security in Emaphephetheni rural setting. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 20(1), 13–23.

Indigenous foods should be seen as immediate and long-term economic benefits to the rural community at large.

0830. Mathole, M.C., & King, P.H. (2023). Molluscicidal and cercaricidal effects of Persicaria senegalensis on Radix natalensis snails and their echinostome-shed cercariae in South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(1), 71-76.

Extracts of Persicaria senegalensis have molluscicidal and cercaricidal properties.

0831. Mirghani, N., Dotras, L., Llana, M., Barciela, A., . . . Galbany, J. (2023). New range record for the African brush-tailed porcupine, Atherurus africanus, in southeastern Senegal and northern Guinea. African Journal of Ecology, 61(2), 490-495. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13125

This species likely has been present, but it may have gone undetected because it is nocturnal and may be less abundant.

0832. Mlaza, N., Tefera, S., & Hassen, A. (2023). Spatio-temporal status of vegetation, soil and cattle serum minerals in degraded communal rangelands of the Eastern Cape, South Africa: implications for livestock sustainability and management interventions. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 40(1), 20-31. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2022.2073611

The great abundance of grasses with high forage values indicates that degraded areas may be regenerated.

0833. Mofu, L., Dalu, T., Wasserman, R.J., Woodford, D.J., & Weyl, O.L.F. (2023). Validation of growth zone formation in Oreochromis mossambicus otoliths collected from an irrigation pond in the Sundays River Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(1), 105-109.

Oreochromis mossambicus in this warm temperate pond had relatively long life spans compared to subtropical populations.

0834. Momberg, M., Haw, A.J., Rajah, P., van Rooyen, J., & Hawkins, H.-J. (2023). Kraals or bomas increase soil carbon and fertility across several biomes. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 40(1), 32-46. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2022.2148740

Kraal age did not predict soil fertility in our analysis, possibly due to coarse time intervals.

0835. Mphethe, V., Weier, S., Westphal, C., Linden, B., . . . Taylor, P. (2023). Epauletted fruit bats prefer native plants and contribute to seed dispersal in a South African agricultural landscape. African Journal of Ecology, 61(2), 399-410. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13132

Fruit bats inhabiting orchards and surrounding natural vegetation feed primarily on wild fruit trees.

0836. Mpopetsi, P.P., & Kadye, W.T. (2023). Colonisation theory and invasive biota: The Great Fish River case history, 35 years later. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(1), 84–96.

Both intrinsic and extrinsic factors may explain the invasions of non-native fishes within the Great Fish River.

0837. Mugangavari, B., Mbatha, K., & Masekoameng, M. (2021). Indigenous knowledge and food security in harvesting of Adansonia digitata (baobab tree) products in south-east Lowveld of Zimbabwe. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 20(1), 42–55.

Households harvested baobab fruits, leaves, and fiber for consumption, sale, medicinal purposes, and craftwork.

0838. Mwamidi, D.M., Nunow, A.A., & Dominguez, P. (2023). Customary ecological conservation of Mwanda-Marungu Pastoral Commons in Taita Hills, south-west Kenya. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 40(1), 94-106. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2022.2138972

Pastoral communities in this area have been developing inventive measures for generations that improve good management and ecological protection.

0839. Ng, M.J., Razif, M.F.M., Kong, B.H., Ng, S.T., … Fung, S.Y. (2023). The genome of Lignosus tigris: Uncovering its hidden nutraceutical potential. South African Journal of Botany, 154, 108-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2023.01.019

Lignosus tigris is a medicinal mushroom that belongs to the Polyporaceae family of fungi.

0840. Norström, E., Kylander, M.E., Sitoe, S.R., & Finch, J.M. (2021). Chronostratigraphic palaeo-climate phasing based on southern African wetlands: From the escarpment to the eastern seaboard. South African Journal of Geology, 124(4), 977-994. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0063

Phase boundaries were identified from timing of climate change inferred by proxies and regime shifts in climate variability.

0841. Nyambali, A., Tjelele, J.T., Mndela, M., Mapiye, C., . . . Mkhize, N. (2023). Participatory inventory and nutritional evaluation of local forage resources for smallholder free-range beef production in semi-arid areas of South Africa. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 40(1), 62-70. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2022.2121941

Vachellia karroo leaves and Opuntia ficus-indica cladodes are the main potential forage resources for inclusion in beef cattle diets.

0842. Obateru, R.O., Ogunkoya, O.O., & Ajayi, D.D. (2023). Water availability in a Nigerian sub-catchment of River Niger and its implications for food security. African Geographical Review, 42(2), 157-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.2003832

We observed a decline in river flow and water availability due to climate variability.

0843. Odume, O.N., Akamagwuna, F.C., Ntloko, P., Dallas, H.F., … Barber-James, H.M. (2023). A trait database for southern African freshwater invertebrates. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(1), 64-70.

This is the first attempt to synthesize available trait information on southern African freshwater invertebrates.

0844. Olaleye, Y.O., & Nwankwo, D.I. (2022). Effects of macronutrients and rainfall pattern on microalgal spectrum of tidal creeks adjoining Lagos Lagoon, southwest, Nigeria. Ife Journal of Science, 24(1), 1-13.

There was no significant difference in species diversity among the three creeks investigated.

0845. Ondoro, R.N.N., Okeyo, B., & Jackson, C. (2023). Examining the abundance and habitat use of golden-rumped sengi (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus) in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest in Kenya. African Journal of Ecology, 61(2), 336-344. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13111

The golden-rumped sengi population was estimated to be 19,423.

0846. Otene, B.B., Thornhill, I., & Amadi, J. (2023). A comparison of the water quality and plankton diversity of the Okamini Stream to the freshwater systems within the New Calabar River catchment, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(1), 97–104.

Anthropogenic activities must be managed to avoid potential future deterioration.

0847. Özbakır, G.Ö. (2023). The relationship between the internal and external morphological parameters of honeybee queens (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and the determination of morphological variation. South African Journal of Animal Science, 53(1), 17-27.

Genotypes can be discriminated using the hindleg variables as well as morphological parameters of the queens.

0848. Pfeiffer, T.Z., Katanić, Z., Krstin, L., Koraca, I., & Čamagajevac, I.Š. (2023). Antioxidative response of stevia leaves to night chilling temperature. South African Journal of Botany, 154, 232-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2023.01.025

Night chilling could present a significant impediment to stevia production.

0849. Reynard, J.P. (2021). Paradise lost: Large mammal remains as a proxy for environmental change from MIS 6 to the Holocene in southern Africa. South African Journal of Geology, 124(4), 1055-1072. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0057

Shifts in ungulate abundance in the currently xeric central interior indicate wetter periods in the Pleistocene.

0850. Sarkar, S., Shaw, P., Singh, P., & Chowdhury, A.A. (2023). Emerging neuroprotective potential of Liquorice: Mechanistic insights for neurological disorders. South African Journal of Botany, 154, 149-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2023.01.029

Liquorice is used in neurodegenerative cycles and is an antioxidant, antifungal, anticarcinogenic, and anti-inflammatory.

0851. Scholtz, M.M., Jordaan, F.J., Chabalala, N.T., Pyoos, G.M., . . . Neser, F.W.C. (2023). A balanced perspective on the contribution of extensive ruminant production to greenhouse gas emissions in southern Africa. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 40(1), 107-113. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2022.2155247

Crossbreeding can have small to moderate effects on the carbon footprint of weaner calf production.

0852. Shivambu, T.C., Shivambu, N., & Downs, C.T. (2022). Breeding status of invasive Rose-ringed Parakeets Psittacula krameri in Durban, South Africa. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 93(4), 257–270.

Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri has established feral populations in South African suburban areas.

0853. Sibeko, L., Johns, T., & Hsiao, B.-s. (2023). Traditional perinatal plant knowledge in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comprehensive compilation and secondary analysis. South African Journal of Botany, 154, 120-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2023.01.007

Ethnobotanical applications include plants for lactation, postpartum use, pregnancy applications, and infant umbilicus healing.

0854. Simier, M., Sadio, O., Tito de Morais, L., & Ecoutin, J.-M. (2023). A review of the ecological knowledge on the species Batrachoides liberiensis in estuarine and lagoon environments of West Africa. African Journal of Ecology, 61(2), 298-305. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13105

The diet of Batrachoides liberiensis consisted mainly of molluscs and crabs.

0855. Stone, A. (2021). Dryland dunes and other dryland environmental archives as proxies for Late Quaternary stratigraphy and environmental and climate change in southern Africa. South African Journal of Geology, 124(4), 927-962. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0055

The evidence for drying over the past 10 ka is pronounced in the west (Namib Desert) with ephemerally wet conditions in the south (southern Kalahari).

0856. Stratford, D., Braun, K., & Morrissey, P. (2021). Cave and rock shelter sediments of southern Africa: A review of the chronostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental record from Marine Isotope Stage 6 to 1. South African Journal of Geology, 124(4), 879-914. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0052

We present three case studies representing interior and coastal contexts: Border Cave, Klasies River Mouth, and Pinnacle Point.

0857. Timpong-Jones, E.C., Samuels, I., Sarkwa, F.O., Oppong-Anane, K., & Majekodumni, A.O. (2023). Transhumance pastoralism in West Africa – its importance, policies and challenges. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 40(1), 114-128. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2022.2160012

We discuss transhumance pastoralism, local and cross-border policies and challenges, with emphasis on herder–farmer conflicts.

0858. Zinhiva, H., Chitakira, M., & Mukwada, G. (2021). Factors associated with the utilisation of indigenous ecological knowledge in the planning and management of biotic resources in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 20(1), 81–101.

Dependence on indigenous ecological knowledge is enhanced by prevalence of conservative rural societies.

0859. Zvokuomba, K., & Batisai, K. (2023). From ‘hydrology of hope’ to ‘hydrology of despair’: A feminist review of Mushandike small-scale irrigation scheme in the semi-arid region of Southern Zimbabwe. South African Geographical Journal, 105(1), 99-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2022.2028668

Water stress due to an inefficient water and land allocation management system is linked to patriarchal ideological practices.

0860. Zwane, E.M., & Masipa, M.P. (2021). The importance of indigenous knowledge system for food security and conservation of natural resources. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 20(1), 124–140.

The possessors of Indigenous knowledge need to protect that which has been commercialized without acknowledging the source.

Economics (Theory, technology, political economy, colonialism, development)

0861. Abubakar, M., Wasswa, P., Masumba, E., Kulembeka, H., . . . Ongom, P. (2023). Pasting properties of high-quality cassava flour of some selected improved cassava varieties in Tanzania for baking. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 19(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2022.16138

Cassava flour produced from Kipusa should be considered for partial substitution of wheat in bread baking.

0862. Adane, M. (2023). Business-driven approach to cloud computing adoption by small businesses. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 15(2), 166-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2022.2058338

I discuss my deep understanding of how key stakeholders view cloud computing adoption.

0863. Adima, A. (2022). Mixed-ish: Race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 16(3), 355-374. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2022.2163469

Barbara Kimenye’s unique positionality challenged colonial taxonomies of race and class.

0864. Afrifah, M., & Mensah, J. (2023). Diaspora tourism and homeland development: Exploring the impacts of African American tourists on the livelihoods of local traders in Southern Ghana. African Geographical Review, 42(2), 125-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1997612

While African Americans constitute the bulk of craft purchasers in Ghana, their numbers have dwindled lately.

0865. Akinradewo, O., Aigbavboa, C., Oke, A., & Edwards, D. (2023). A roadmap for present focus and future trends of blockchain technology in the built environment. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 15(2), 153-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2022.2046249

We highlighted blockchain technology usefulness in promoting social and economic sustainability of the built environment.

0866. Amusan, T., & Nel, P. (2023). The limits of mutual benefit: A neo-mercantilist perspective on China’s economic relations with Nigeria. South African Journal of International Affairs, 30(1), 121-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2023.2207557

China gains considerably more from its engagement with Nigeria than vice versa.

0867. Aryeetey, E., & Baffour, P.T. (2022). African competitiveness and the business environment: Does manufacturing still have a role to play? Journal of African Economies, 31(1), i33–i58. https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejac019

Recent increases in income in the region will not generate industrialization as earlier hypothesized.

0868. Asogwa, I.S., & Anumudu, C.D. (2023). Sustainability of energy transition on output growth and carbon emission abatement in sub-Saharan Africa. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 15(2), 250-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2022.2072257

We must address the significance of renewable energy use as a sustainable alternative to the carbon abatement policy.

0869. Atoyebi, J.O., Bello, S.A., & Owolarafe, O.K. (2022). Development of computational models for the production of fermented African locust beans using Petri net. Ife Journal of Science, 24(1), 119-140.

The mechanized process was found to utilize less water and shorter production time.

0870. Ayo-Lawal, R.A., Adelowo, C.M., Oyewale, A.A., Ejim-Eze, E.E., . . . Ukwuoma, O. (2023). Mapping the strength of sectoral innovation system in the Nigerian pharmaceutical industry: Empirical evidence. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 15(2), 198-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2022.2061697

Most researchers in universities rated research-industry collaborations on most of the key aspects considered to be at least weak.

0871. Ayvazoğlu, C., Kızıltpe, Ş., Yaşar, Ü.., Yaşar, Z.G., . . . Tunc, A.C. (2023). Changes in cardiac troponin I (cTnI), T (cTnT), and some biochemical parameters in Arabian racehorses after training. South African Journal of Animal Science, 53(1), 1-6.

We determined that exercise triggered myocardial damage to some extent in Arabian horses.

0872. Baloyi, T.C., Kutu, F.R., & du Preez, C.C. (2023). Is the use of commercial organic ameliorants for cropping justified? South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 40(1), 34-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2023.2192528

The use of commercial organic ameliorants cannot be recommended to farmers without proper evaluation.

0873. Banda, P.C. (2023). Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-presidency experiences, 1994–1997. Journal of Southern African Studies, 49(1), 67-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2023.2176044

Although Kamuzu Banda faced elements of political persecution and harassment when he left office, some of the blame must also be placed on his authoritarian style.

0874. Blomme, G., Kearsley, E., Buta, S., Chala, A., . . . Yemataw, Z. (2023). Xanthomonas wilt of enset in Ethiopia: Geographical spread, impact on production systems and the effect of training on disease management practices. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 19(1), 33-47. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2022.16243

Farmers applied disease management practices once infected plants are observed, but were unaware of preventive approaches.

0875. Buchana, Y., & Sithole, M.M. (2023). Towards a conceptual framework for measuring innovation in the agricultural sector in sub-Saharan developing countries. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 15(2), 272-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2022.2072794

Innovation scholars in developing countries struggle to develop knowledge to understand innovation in agricultural businesses.

0876. Candelise, L., & Kernen, A. (2023). A Chinese ‘modern’ device transforming the traditional healers’ practices in Cameroon. Critical African Studies, 15(1), 91-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2023.2200011

‘Machines’ coming from China are being used to ‘purify the body’, to ‘eliminate fat’, to regulate tension, and ‘make diagnoses.’

0877. Candotti, M. (2023). Rethinking West African monetary history: The complementarity between monies and the economic growth of the Sokoto Caliphate. African Economic History, 51(1), 24-47.

During the nineteenth century, long-distance commercial capital had a limited effect on West African local production.

0878. Chasia, S., Herrnegger, M., Juma, B., Kimuyu, J., . . . Olang, L. (2023). Analysis of land-cover changes in the Transboundary Sio-Malaba-Malakisi River Basin of East Africa: Towards identifying potential land-use transition regimes. African Geographical Review, 42(2), 170-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.2007143

Approximately 12% of mixed forest declined, while cropland increased by 30% from 1995 to 2008.

0879. Chigevenga, R. (2022). Decolonising research methodologies in the Global South: Experiences of an African social scientist. African Journal of Social Work, 12(4), 199-206.

African research should be guided by our African heritage for it to sufficiently address the needs of our communities.

0880. Chikoko, L., & Maumbe, B.M. (2023). Supermarket resilience in Zimbabwe’s volatile macroeconomic environment. Development Southern Africa, 40(1), 208-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2022.2046549

We provide key insights on strategies that are indispensable for building the necessary resilience ingredients required by supermarkets to absorb shocks and recover.

0881. Chimhete, N. (2023). Heinrich’s Chibuku breweries and the informalization of the African beer industry in Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1962–1979. African Economic History, 51(1), 48-64.

African small-scale operators dominated the African informal beer industry.

0882. Chitiga, M., Soropa, G., Dube, T., & Sengera, P. (2023). Spatial interpolation of vertisol physico-chemical properties through ordinary kriging in south-eastern Zimbabwe. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 40(1), 46-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2023.2168077

Our study is used for soil test-based fertilizer recommendations, soil fertility monitoring, and identifying spatial variability.

0883. Coste, M., Pereira, L., Charman, A., Petersen, L., & Hawkes, C. (2023). ‘Hampers’ as an effective strategy to shift towards sustainable diets in South African low-income communities. Development Southern Africa, 40(2), 350-372. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2022.2028605

We find that brand loyalty plays an important role in households’ purchase of hampers.

0884. Cust, J., Devarajan, S., & Mandon, P. (2022). Dutch disease and the public sector: How natural resources can undermine competitiveness in Africa. Journal of African Economies, 31(1), i10–i32. https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejac017

Government might transfer natural-resource revenues directly to citizens and then tax them to finance public expenditure.

0885. Dick-Sagoe, C., Hope, K.N., & Asare-Nuamah, P. (2023). Perceived impact of climate variability and change on livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Lesotho. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 15(2), 175-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2022.2058339

Indigenous technology should be used for treating pest and disease, fruit tree planting, water and soil conservation, and rainwater harvest storage.

0886. Douglas, M., & Donaldson, R. (2023). Diffusion and adoption of organic and biodynamic winemaking in the Western Cape. South African Geographical Journal, 105(1), 34-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2021.2006766

Application of the diffusion of innovation theory showed that organic and/or biodynamic winemaking is still in its infancy.

0887. Eslami-Firouzabadi, A., Karimi, M., Abbasi-Surki, A., Shafeinia, A., & Derikvand-Moghadam, F. (2023). Optimising the rate and stages of application of nitrogen fertiliser for stevia under greenhouse conditions. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 40(1), 58-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2022.2137591

Nitrogen application of 40 kg N ha−1 split into two stages is recommended for stevia production under greenhouse conditions.

0888. Gebrewolde, T.W., Koelle, M., Krishnan, P., & Mengistu, A.T. (2022). Currency shocks and firm behaviour in Ethiopia and Uganda. Journal of African Economies, 31(1), i59–i82. https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejac018

Currency depreciation based on the currency of invoicing to importers in Ethiopia lowers the likelihood of using imported inputs.

0889. Gericke, R., Combrink, N.J.J., & van der Rijst, M. (2023). Low magnesium content in potato tubers associated with mass loss during storage. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 40(1), 64-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2022.2144959

Irrigation with water rich in sodium tended to limit mass loss, possibly due to the associated high levels of magnesium.

0890. Gougodo De Mon-Zoni, L.J., Kosh-Komba, E., Omenda. J.A., Zaman, M., . . . Akpagana, K. (2023). Fertilization options for improved cassava productivity and economic profitability in the Pissa and Damara areas, Central African Republic: Comparative approach. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 19(1), 67-80. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2022.16250

Cow manure+NPK technology is one that resource-poor households can easily use, but the purchasing power of the peasant farmers is low.

0891. Hlongwana, J., & van Eeden, E.S. (2023). Borderlessness and the 20th-century rise of the Ndau people’s subaltern economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique borderland. Journal of Southern African Studies, 49(1), 121-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2023.2174716

Relentless cross-border transgressions have thus contributed to a virtual state of ‘borderlessness’ in the region.

0892. Irhebhude, M.E., Kolawole, A.O., Uche, A.C., & Dupe, A.V. (2023). Perception of government employees on the use of biometric technology in determining a person’s ethnic group in Nigeria. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 15(2), 260-271. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2022.2072793

The majority of respondents agreed that fingerprint and facial biometrics would improve ethnicity detection.

0893. Kadjie, C.F., Hikouatcha, P., Kengdo, A.A.N., & Nchofoung, T.N. (2023). Determinants of adoption of electronic payment by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Cameroon. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 15(2), 185-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2022.2058340

The leading electronic payment tools adopted by these companies are mobile money, credit card, and Internet payments.

0894. Keita, D.S., Keita, M., Moctar, T., & Patel, H. (2023). Physico-chemical parameters, macronutrients and micronutrients evaluation in the soil of Trenabougou, rural commune of Siby, Mali. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 19(1), 24-32. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2022.16218

The concentrations of micronutrients like iron, copper, and zinc were high in soils.

0895. Khan-Mohammad, G. (2023). Chinese goods and mass consumption in Africa: Cultural appropriation of Chinese motorcycles in Burkina Faso. Critical African Studies, 15(1), 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2022.2054839

The aesthetic and technical characteristics of Chinese motorcycles gradually became a standard shared by all imported models.

0896. Khan-Mohammad, G., & Kernen, A. (2023). Chinese goods in Africa: New extraversions, orientations, and expressions of African agency. Critical African Studies, 15(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2023.2200013

The low price of Chinese-made goods has contributed to new consumption and business opportunities.

0897. Lambertz, P. (2023). Longola Marche Arrière! Chinese diesel engines on Congo’s inland waterways. Critical African Studies, 15(1), 15-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2021.1931385

The engines and the boats they propel enable and democratize access to new forms of connectivity and mobility.

0898. Mazibuko, N., & Chitja, J. (2021). The role of indigenous knowledge in a participatory process of selection, implementation and adoption of climate-smart technologies. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 20(1), 56–68.

Local and external institutions play important roles in the selection, adoption, and scaling up of climate-smart technology.

0899. Mengesha, Z.D., & Singh, L. (2023). Human capital accumulation and economic growth of Ethiopian economy. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 15(2), 211-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2022.2062652

Policymakers should strengthen the country’s institutional capacity while increasing the number of healthy members of the labor force.

0900. Mhlongo, S.D., & Mzyece, M. (2023). The business of business incubation: How stakeholders measure value and investment returns in South African fintech incubators. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 15(2), 236-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2022.2069215

Business incubation is equally about assisting and developing start-ups and entrepreneurs as it is about the business gains that BIs extract.

0901. Miranda, D.A., Moreira, L.F.S., de Almeida, A.A., Vieira-Filho, J.A., . . . Geraldo, A. (2023). Organic minerals, tributyrin, and blend of organic acids in the diet of commercial laying hens at the end of production. South African Journal of Animal Science, 53(1), 7-16.

The association of organic minerals with a mixture of organic acids and tributyrin did not influence the productive performance.

0902. Mpiira, S., Kipsat, M., Mose, P., Kalyango, F., … Staver, C. (2023). Farm diversification benefits and technology choice: A case of the coffee-banana farming system in Central Uganda. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 19(1), 48-60. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2021.15710

Benefits are influenced by education level, gender, and land control as well as level of coffee integration within the coffee-banana intercrop.

0903. Musonda, J. (2023). ‘Satanbic stop stealing our money’: Zambia mine workers’ struggles against finance. Journal of Southern African Studies, 49(1), 155-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2023.2178158

Debt resistance and citizenship claims upon the state can be combined by indebted workers in their struggles against finance capital.

0904. Ndung’u, N., Shimeles, A., & Ngui, D. (2022). The old tale of the manufacturing sector in Africa: The story should change. Journal of African Economies, 31(1), i3–i9. https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejac016

The weakness in basic institutional and economic fundamentals is evident from the perceptions of rating agencies.

0905. Nkomo, M., & Nkomo, L. (2023). Politics from the pits: Artisanal gold mining, politics and the limits of hegemonic state domination in Zimbabwe. Journal of Southern African Studies, 49(1), 137-153. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2023.2182982

The state is a flexible network of bargains and negotiated fusions, exchanges, and appropriations.

0906. Ogbe, M., Rød, J.K., & Halvorsen, T. (2023). Opinions of Ghanaians on the management of petroleum revenue in Ghana. African Geographical Review, 42(2), 187-204. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.2007410

Decision-makers can use spatial crowdsourcing to engage ordinary community members in natural resource revenue management.

0907. Olukoju, A. (2023). Officials, commercial interests, and civil aviation policy initiatives in inter-war British West Africa. African Economic History, 51(1), 1-23.

Financial considerations stymied colonial aviation projects until after World War II.

0908. Pasaribu, T., Sukirman, M., Sani, Y., Bakrie, B., & Rusdiana, S. (2023). Evaluation of Phyllanthus niruri L. powder on growth performance, haematology, and intestinal morphology of broilers. South African Journal of Animal Science, 53(1), 46-59.

Phyllanthus niruri L. powder did not affect broiler performance and hematology profiles.

0909. Pellerin, C., & Söderström, J. (2022). ‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s’? Making sense of tax non-compliance among small business owners in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 16(3), 395-414. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2023.2193780

Taxpayers apply two different forms of reasoning to describe taxation practices, business logic, and an emotional response.

0910. Plagerson, S. (2023). Mainstreaming poverty, inequality and social exclusion: A systematic assessment of public policy in South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 40(1), 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2021.1993793

There is at least a moderate degree of engagement with poverty, inequality, and social exclusion across all sectors.

0911. Qobo, M., & Mzyece, M. (2023). Geopolitics, technology wars and global supply chains: Implications for Africa. South African Journal of International Affairs, 30(1), 29-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2023.2191988

Post COVID-19 many Africa states are facing their worst socio-economic crisis since independence.

0912. Röschenthaler, U. (2023). Chinese-manufactured commodities and African agency in the democratization of consumption: the example of electronic devices in Cameroon. Critical African Studies, 15(1), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2021.1977158

African importers of Chinese-manufactured products carefully select and order supplies that are affordable and meet the tastes of local consumers.

0913. Sanou, M.R., Compaoré, I., & Sanon, A. (2023). Emergency response to the Spodoptera frugiperda invasion in Africa: What do maize producers in Burkina Faso think and do? African Journal of Agricultural Research, 19(1), 101-112. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2022.16219

Unfortunately, 96% of users do not take any appropriate personal protective measures when using chemical treatments.

0914. Seboko, K.R., van Tol, J., & Kotze, E. (2023). Predicting soil carbon in granitic soils using Fourier-transform mid-infrared (FT-MIR) spectroscopy: the value of database disaggregation. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 40(1), 23-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2023.2180098

Soil carbon is an important component in quality assessments and efficient models are required to estimate it rapidly.

0915. Sewordor, E.S.K. (2023). The opportunity for loss is fully appreciated, but: Theft and conflicting policy in the making of the Gold Coast’s diamond-mining industry, 1919–1950s. African Economic History, 51(1), 93-120.

European companies grew suspicious that an increase in African-produced diamonds corresponded with a peak in theft from their properties.

0916. Theron, J.S., van Coller, G.J., Rose, L.J., Labuschagne, J., & Swanepoel, P.A. (2023). The effect of crop rotation and tillage practice on residue decomposition and wheat performance in the Western Cape, South Africa. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 40(1), 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2022.2160881

Crop rotation determines residue type, while tillage affects residue load and distribution.

0917. Thiombiano, B.A., & Le, Q.B. (2023). Agricultural livelihood systems typology for coping with diversity in smallholder farming system research: A demonstrative case in South-western Burkina Faso. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 19(1), 8-19. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2022.16211

The main variables discriminating agricultural livelihoods include ones of human asset: labor, age, education, and dependency.

0918. Tirivangasi, H.M., Nyahunda, L., Mabila, T., & Zingwena, T. (2023). Exploring humanitarian response strategies in the aftermath of disasters induced by climate change in Zimbabwe. Development Southern Africa, 40(2), 313-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2021.2018289

Response strategies included the provision of food and non-food items, psychosocial support and counselling services, and the protection of women and girls from abuse.

0919. Trafford, Z., & Swartz, L. (2023). The Care Dependency Grant for children with disabilities in South Africa: Perspectives from implementation officials. Development Southern Africa, 40(2), 259-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2021.1981250

Complementary interventions and effective intersectoral collaboration may greatly enhance the impact of cash transfers.

0920. Tryphone, K., & Mkenda, B.K. (2023). Determinants and constraints of women’s sole-owned tourism micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Tanzania. Development Southern Africa, 40(2), 329-349. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2022.2028604

We discuss women’s sole-owned tourism micro, small, and medium enterprises.

0921. Tusasiirwe, S. (2022). Stories of decolonising research education and practice: Experiences from my Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) research. African Journal of Social Work, 12(4), 207-213.

I discuss examples of decolonized African research methods and ethics.

0922. Tyasi, T.L., & Tada, O. (2023). Principal component analysis of morphometric traits and body indices in South African Kalahari Red goats. South African Journal of Animal Science, 53(1), 28-37.

Principal component analysis was used in breeding programs to define the morphological structure of South African Kalahari Red goats.

0923. von Pezold, J. (2023). Co-constructing fashion in a South–South context: selling Chinese-made garments and textiles in Mozambique. Critical African Studies, 15(1), 73-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2022.2133735

People see the availability and affordability of Chinese-made products as an opportunity to start their own businesses.

0924. Wanda, F., Oya, C., & Monreal, B. (2023). Building Angola: A political economy of infrastructure contractors in post-war Angola. Journal of Southern African Studies, 49(1), 25-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2023.2192589

We explain the origins of segmentation among infrastructure contractors and the central role of oil-backed finance, particularly from China.

0925. Wanjau, E.G. (2022). The shifting identity in Slave: The True Story of a Girl’s Lost Childhood and Her Fight for Survival by Mende Nazer. Journal of the African Literature Association, 16(1), 54-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2022.2026061

Mende Nazer reconstructs her identity through recalling and narrating her experiences before, during, and after slavery.

0926. Wellington, M., Mortlock, M., & Moepeng, P. (2023). Evaluating food transfers in Botswana using multiple matching methods. Development Southern Africa, 40(2), 273-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2021.1984874

Food transfers targeted the hungry and alleviated household food insecurity.

0927. Woyo, E., & Slabbert, E. (2023). Competitiveness factors influencing tourists’ intention to return and recommend: Evidence from a distressed destination. Development Southern Africa, 40(2), 243-258. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2021.1977612

General amenities, attractions, and destination management are also significant predictors of return intentions.

0928. Zhou, M. (2023). Sugarcane cultivar genetic gains for coastal agro-ecological regions of South Africa. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 40(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2022.2148007

Sugarcane production declined at a slower rate than area planted. I show the benefit of high yield cultivars.

0929. Zikargie, Y.A., Wisborg, P., & Cochrane, L. (2022). State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: Questions of power and agency in lowland transformation. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 16(3), 434-454. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2023.2166449

The past modernist development approach that caused marginalization is likely to affect a new stage of lowland transformation.

0930. Zipporah, P., Inoussab, A., Ahouansou, R., Bolorunduro, P., & Ziama, R.Z. (2023). Rice ratooning as a sustainable climate smart adaptation for agriculture in Liberia. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 19(1), 20-23. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2022.16120

Ratoon rice is more effective at a height of 50 cm, produces higher yields, and is a substitute for traditional rice planting method.

Ethnohistory

0931. Bob-Milliar, G.M., & Nyaaba, A.Y. (2022). Modernizing royals and capitalists of Kumase: The Ashanti Turf Club, 1950–1980s. Journal of West African History, 8(2), 45-76.

Horse racing played a significant social role in Asante society by keeping residents entertained on the weekend.

0932. Chappe, V.-A., & Keyhani, N. (2023). National origin discrimination or racial discrimination? The mobilization of SNCF’s Moroccan railway workers. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46(4), 788-808. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2030486

Only the “national origin discrimination” framework enabled the achievement of the legal case.

0933. Chebii, W.K., Muthee, J.K., & Kiemo, K. (2023). Sociocultural conservation strategies of prioritized medicinal plants, their historical context and space for integration. African Journal of History and Culture, 15(1), 11-21. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJHC2022.0546

Cultural methods of preventing overharvesting, enforcing social and cultural taboos, totemism, rituals, and norms are needed.

0934. Chouchene, A.M. (2022). Colonial attitudes and responses to drunkenness: The case of the 1820 settlement, 1820–1845. African Historical Review, 53(1-2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2023.2196764

Punishment of drunkards through fines and imprisonment were meant to curb excessive drinking.

0935. Delgado, G.T. (2023). The role of Rifian virility in the shaping of Spanish masculinity during Spain’s colonial wars in the Rif (1900–1927): From admiration to colonial hierarchy. The Journal of North African Studies, 28(2), 294-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2021.1917395

The image of the Rifian man in this colonial setting is analyzed as playing a decisive role in the shaping of Spanish masculinity.

0936. Dlamini, S.R. (2022). Medical missions and proselytisation: The case of the Church of the Nazarene medical missions’ proselytisation activities in Swaziland, 1925–1968. African Historical Review, 53(1-2), 20-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2023.2181297

I illustrate the correlation between missionary medicine and proselytization.

0937. Dumbuya, P.A. (2022). The challenge of constructing citizenship in a multiracial society in postcolonial Sierra Leone: Rethinking the case of John Joseph Akar. Journal of West African History, 8(2), 77-100.

The economic success of the Lebanese in the colonial period put them at odds with Sierra Leone’s emerging political elites.

0938. Fernandes, C. (2023). Intellectual legacies, political morality, and disillusionment: Connections between two Mozambique research institutions, 1976–2017. The Journal of African History, 64(1), 112-125. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853723000038

I discuss institution building, postcolonial universities and education, and the networks of the global 1960s.

0939. Grollemund, R., Schoenbrun, D., & Vansina, J. (2023). Moving histories: Bantu language expansions, eclectic economies, and mobilities. The Journal of African History, 64(1), 13-37. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853722000780

‘Transformations’ from food collecting to food producing or from no metals to full engagement with metals were mutable.

0940. King, M. (2023). An emir in the ruins of Carthage: The life and times of Muhriz Ibn Ziyad (d. 1160 CE). The Journal of North African Studies, 28(2), 230-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2021.1998773

The life of Muhriz ibn Ziyad shows the degree of political de-centralization in Ifriqiya following the arrival of the Banu Hilal.

0941. Kissi, E. (2023). Caught between the Union Jack and the Nazi swastika: African protests over ambiguous status under British imperialism and potential transfer to Nazi colonialism. The Journal of African History, 64(1), 62-79. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853723000014

People feared the prospect of Nazi rule and its spectre of slave-labor concentration camps for Africa’s Western-educated elite.

0942. Kuusaana, M.M. (2022). Colonial labor policy and north–south migration in Ghana. Journal of West African History, 8(2), 1-16.

Segregation of families, exposure to the vagaries of the weather, disease, and death were consequences of forced migration.

0943. Lethiwe, Z. (2023). Zulu monarchy land engagements and the Section 25 of the South African constitution. African Journal of History and Culture, 15(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJHC2021.0531

The South African Constitution Section 25 needs auctioning as it permeates expropriation without compensation for land reform.

0944. Keita, M., Polonsky, J.A., Ahuka-Mundeke, S., Ilumbulumbu, M.K., … Fall, I.S. (2023). A community-based contact isolation strategy to reduce the spread of Ebola virus disease: An analysis of the 2018-2020 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. BMJ Global Health, 8(6), e011907. https:doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-011907.

The community-based contact isolation strategy shows promise for stopping Ebola transmission.

0945. Ngalamulume, K. (2022). Beyond resistance: Therapeutic itinerary in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal between indigenous and scientific medicine, 1820–1920. Journal of West African History, 8(2), 17-44.

The African patients’ therapeutic choices were rational and were informed by their cultural history.

0946. Nkhoma, B.G. (2022). The political economy of irrigation development and peasant food production in colonial Malawi, 1945–1961. African Historical Review, 53(1-2), 43-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2023.2175466

Paternalistic authorities implemented irrigation without paying attention to existing local knowledge and context.

0947. Obika, J.A., & Otim, P.W. (2022). ‘Returning to the world of ancestors’: Death and dying among the Acholi of Northern Uganda, 1900s–1980s. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 16(3), 375-394. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2022.2163124

We studied death and mortuary practices among the Acholi between the 1900s and the 1980s.

0948. Rushohora, N. (2022). Monuments of the exiles and memorialisation of shared heritage between Mozambique and Tanzania. African Historical Review, 53(1-2), 65-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2023.2186049

I underline the process of how sites of African liberation struggles are remembered and memorialized.

0949. Smart, D. (2023). The reproduction of urban capitalism: Street food and the working day in colonial Mombasa. The Journal of African History, 64(1), 80-95. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853723000063

Postwar municipal authorities also wanted to create a particular kind of urban society in which the ‘informal’ activities of street-food vendors did not fit.

0950. Ugwu, U.T. (2022). The beginner’s odyssey: Ethics, participant observation and its challenges in native ethnography. International Journal of Modern Anthropology, 2(18), 988-1007. https://doi.org/10.4314/ijma.v2i18.4

The mutual intelligibility does not guarantee quick rapport instead it sets up suspicion. Ethical issues are culturally relative.

0951. Were, M.N. (2022). Genealogies as an interpretive paradigm for engaging African women writers’ historical consciousness. Journal of the African Literature Association, 16(1), 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2021.2016250

I examine how women autobiographers narrate genealogies which contest dominant autobiographical and historical discourses.

Kinship (Family organization, marriage)

0952. Arthur-Holmes, F., Aboagye, R.G., Dadzie, L.K., Agbaglo, E., … Ahinkorah, B.O. (2023). Intimate partner violence and pregnancy termination among women in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 38(1-2), 2092-2111. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221098405

The odds of pregnancy termination were higher among women who had experienced intimate partner violence.

0953. Boonzaier, F.A. (2023). Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis. Current Sociology, 71(1), 78-96. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921221097157

At least half of women who are murdered die at the hands of an intimate partner.

0954. DiGiuseppe, M., & Haer, R. (2023). The wedding bells of war: The influence of armed conflict on child marriages in West Africa. Journal of Peace Research, 60(3), 474-488. https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433221080056

When conflict actors use war tactics that specifically harm young girls, there is a significant increase in marriage likelihood.

0955. Gibbs, A., Chirwa, E., & Dunkle, K. (2023). A prospective analysis of the interrelationship between physical intimate partner violence and alcohol use: A post-hoc analysis of young women involved in the stepping stones and creating futures trial in South Africa. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 38(1-2), 750-771. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221084738

Women reporting increasing alcohol use over 24 months were more likely to report physical intimate partner violence.

0956. Hailegabriel, K., & Berhanu, Z. (2023). Caregiving challenges and coping strategies of family caregivers for relatives diagnosed with bipolar disorder in Ethiopia. Families in Society, 104(1), 5-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894221129325

Family caregivers faced different psychosocial and spiritual crises and challenges while they used varying coping mechanisms.

0957. Hayes, B.E., & van Baak, C. (2023). Intimate partner violence and age at marriage in Mali: The moderating influence of polygynous unions. Violence Against Women, 29(6–7), 1319-1342. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012221108418

Polygyny has a moderating influence on the association between age at marriage and the experience of physical abuse.

0958. Hunt, X., van der Merwe, A., Swartz, L., Xakayi, W., . . . Hamilton, A. (2023). “It is in the nature of men”: The normalization of non-consensual sex and intimate partner violence against women with acquired physical disabilities in South Africa. Violence Against Women, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012231172710

Patriarchal ideologies construct how women should perform their gendered roles in marriage or sexual partnerships.

0959. Issahaku, A., & Asoma, A. (2023). Education and marriage behavior Among rural folks: A dilemma of senior high school graduates in Northern-Ghana. Equity in Education & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/27526461231174624

Factors influencing marriage and education choices include poor educational background, peer influence, teenage pregnancy, financial constraints, and parental pressure.

0960. Obioha, O.O. (2021). Legality of women marrying other women for the womb: An analysis of the mala practice among the Basotho of Southern Africa. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 20(1), 102–110.

Basotho’s customary law principle governs mala and the validity of this type of marriage.

0961. Okunlola, D.A., Makinde, O.A., & Babalola, S. (2023). Socio-economic correlates of marital status and marriage timing among adult men in Nigeria. Journal of Family Issues, 44(6), 1508-1524. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X211059828

Employed men were more likely to have a marriage history and to delay marriage.

0962. Tenkorang, E.Y., Zaami, M., Kimuna, S., Owusu, A.Y., & Rohn, E. (2023). Help-seeking behaviors of male survivors of intimate partner violence in Kenya. Journal of Family Issues, 44(1), 187-202. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X211042847

Male survivors of severe physical abuse had higher odds of seeking help from informal support networks.

Linguistics

0963. Adebomi, O. (2023). A pragma-rhetorical analysis of speeches of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on COVID-19. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 54(1), 21-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2023.2185903

Sociolinguistic analysis of COVID-19 texts would demystify linguistic barriers associated with the pandemic.

0964. Adedayo, V. (2023). Grounding mechanisms in selected interviews of President Muhammadu Buhari. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 54(1), 40-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2023.2197252

The interviewer and interviewee utilized three main grounding techniques: alternative descriptions, referential installments, and instalments.

0965. Alberts, M. (2022). The South African national lexicography units — Two decades later. Lexikos, 32(3), 1-24.

The current national government requires dictionaries in all official languages for proper communication in languages the citizens understand best.

0966. Baloyi, M.J. (2023). Semantic features in English print advertisements: A Xitsonga translation perspective. South African Journal of African Languages, 43(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2022.2132690

Advertising is characterized by persuasive meaning and requires the translator’s skillful manipulation of the functionalist approach.

0967. Hall, L. (2023). Minimizations and denials of racism by UK residents from Zimbabwe as occasioned linguistic practice. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46(5), 1082-1100. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2101893

I seek to demonstrate that appropriated oppression is a form of mediated action rather than a psychological state.

0968. Jordaan, M., & Nel, J. (2023). Material evaluation of communicative competence in a Setswana beginner language learning course. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 54(1), 121-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2022.2147579

The self-access set of course materials must be tailored to emphasize communication within varying social and cultural contexts.

0969. Klopper, D., & Sekwiha-Gwajima, E. (2022). A life elsewhere: Figurations of the journey in Wilma Stockenström’s The Expedition to the Baobab Tree. Journal of the African Literature Association, 16(1), 39-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2021.2016249

We discuss the significance of the novel’s crossing of linguistic, cultural, and generic boundaries.

0970. Lepheana, J. (2021). Perceptions of learners, teachers and parents on integrating isiXhosa within curricula and pedagogies in junior secondary schools in the Maluti District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 20(1), 111–123.

We make a strong case for integrating isiXhosa within curricula and pedagogy at schools.

0971. Majola, Y., & Cekiso, M. (2023). Foundation phase teachers’ experiences with teaching Xhosa home language to Baca-speaking learners in Umzimkhulu. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 54(1), 102-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2023.2202923

In our study learners’ conceptualization of and expression in Xhosa was not up to standard.

0972. Matjila, D.S. (2023). Water as a metaphorical marker in Setswana and Afrikaans poetry. South African Journal of African Languages, 43(1), 25-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2022.2139940

I employ critical discourse analysis and intertextuality as theoretical frameworks to analyze and interpret.

0973. Monyakane, M., & Malete, E.N. (2023). The application of appraisal theory in Maphalla’s poem: ‘Ditema.’ South African Journal of African Languages, 43(1), 40-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2023.2200484

The poet uses the judgement of social esteem, praising hard work and commitment and scorning laziness.

0974. Morris, L.H. (2022). How school dictionaries treat human reproductive organs, and recommendations for South African primary school dictionaries. Lexikos, 32(3), 123-143.

We discuss implications of taboo topics in dictionaries with cultural aspects of sex education in South Africa.

0975. Motinyane, M. (2023). A critical discourse analysis of Maphalla’s selected poems: South Africa’s pre-democratic election messages. South African Journal of African Languages, 43(1), 76-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2023.2200450

I show that Maphalla used language in a manner that reflected freedom, peace, and hope.

0976. Ndizera, V., Ngarambe, T., & Ntakirutimana, E. (2023). Power relations in Bible translation: A sociolinguistic analysis of selected English and Kinyarwanda passages from the book of Genesis. South African Journal of African Languages, 43(1), 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2022.2132693

We posit that power relations constitute a non-negligible social aspect of language which should be carefully taken into consideration in Bible translation.

0977. Ngele, C.P. (2023). Language function and literary translation: The realisation of transculturation in the translation of Sans Famille from French to Igbo. South African Journal of African Languages, 43(1), 31-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2022.2132694

French cultural elements are replaced with those existing in Igbo culture.

0978. Ngubane, S. (2021). Identity construction in KwaNgwanase personal names. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 20(1), 27–41.

I examine the implications of culture, history, and language for individual identity construction in the personal names of KwaNgwanase.

0979. Nkomo, D., Nosilela, B., & Gambushe, W. (2022). How great is thy dictionary? Cross-referencing as a lexicographic device in The Greater Dictionary of (isi)Xhosa. Lexikos, 32(3), 166-190.

Consistency generally prevails in the treatment of similar lexical items and even across the different volumes of the dictionary.

0980. Nyamekye, E., Anani, G., & Kuttin, G. (2023). Language choice and identity construction among bilinguals at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 54(1), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2023.2188244

Students speak English in formal communicative situations and speak their L1 in informal settings.

0981. Oyebola, F., & Ugwuanyi, K. (2023). Attitudes of Nigerians towards BBC pidgin: A preliminary study. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 54(1), 78-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2023.2203509

Respondents have positive attitudes towards Nigerian Pidgin and BBC Pidgin.

0982. Phindane, P. (2023). The significance of the naming technique in KPD Maphalla’s novel, Kabelwamanong. South African Journal of African Languages, 43(1), 56-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2023.2200471

Names in Kabelwamanong are not mere decorative strategies, but rather vital aspects of literary art.

0983. Seema, J. (2023). Reflections on KPD Maphalla’s poetry: Political, spiritual and social perspectives. South African Journal of African Languages, 43(1), 85-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2023.2200466

His creative writing covers dimensions such as political, historical, and sociological issues.

0984. Theledi, K.A. (2023). Syntactic differences between adjectives and relative words in Setswana and isiZulu. South African Journal of African Languages, 43(1), 18-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2022.2132697

I investigate whether Setswana and isiZulu adjectives and relatives do occur in a specific order when used attributively.

Medical Studies (Fertility, diet, disease, genetics, adaptation)

0985. Adekanmbi, O., Ilesanmi, O., Idowu, O., Esan, A., … Osungbade, K. (2023). Characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at a tertiary hospital in Nigeria. African Health Sciences, 23(1), 72-82. https://doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v23i1.9

Mortality factors included: Significantly greater hypoxia and tachypnea, less dexamethasone use, and shorter hospitalization.

0986. Adeleke, A., Franzsen, D., de Witt, P., & Smith, R. (2022). Validity and reliability of the HIV Disability Questionnaire for people living with HIV in South Africa. African Journal of AIDS Research, 21(4), 364-372. https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2022.2142141

The HIV Disability Questionnaire is reliable and valid for disability determination and may be used as a rehabilitation outcome measure.

0987. Adeyemi, T.E., Adekoya, N.D., & Aikins, E.A. (2023). Assessment of the willingness of Nigerian Orthodontists to offer face-to-face orthodontic services to patients infected with Covid-19. African Health Sciences, 23(1), 51-58. https://doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v23i1.7

Most orthodontists and orthodontic residents practicing in Nigeria expressed unwillingness to treat patients infected with COVID-19.

0988. Agomo, C.O., Lameed, O., & Ajibaye, O. (2022). Genetic diversity in merozoite surface protein 1 of Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Igbogbo-bayeku, Lagos, Nigeria. Ife Journal of Science, 24(1), 25-34.

Genetic diversity in the P. falciparum isolates is an indication of intense malaria transmission.

0989. Alabi, T.O., & Aliyu, T.K. (2022). Medical doctors do not know it, nor can they treat it: Identifying the common neonatal illnesses and preferred healthcare practices in a Yoruba community, Nigeria. International Journal of Modern Anthropology, 2(18), 961-986. https://doi.org/10.4314/ijma.v2i18.3

Rural dwellers often cast doubt on orthodox medical practitioners in response to childhood illnesses and treatment.

0990. Alege, G.O., Atawodi, J.C., Williams, A.V., Adah, G.O., & Olowonibi, O.O. (2022). Evaluation of the phytochemical compositions and genotoxic potentials of some anti-hemorrhoid herbal preparations sold in Nigeria. Ife Journal of Science, 24(1), 109-118.

The contents of these samples vary from product to product, therefore their potency and effects on cell cycle may also vary.

0991. Bisung, E., Meshack, A., Dassah, E., & Kuuire, V. (2023). Public health response to COVID-19 pandemic and drivers of mistrust in Ghana. African Geographical Review, 42(2), 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.2007411

Cultural beliefs and illiteracy are not sufficient for understanding mistrust in public health programs during epidemics.

0992. Chukwuanukwu, R.C., Nwosu, N.B., Ifeanyichukwu, M.O., Nsonwu-Anyanwu, A.C., & Manafa, O. (2023). Evaluation of some immune and inflammatory responses in diabetes and HIV co-morbidity. African Health Sciences, 23(1), 120-128. https://doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v23i1.14

HIV and diabetes co-morbidity exacerbate the immune and inflammatory impairment observed in either disease.

0993. Dhamodharavadhani, S., & Rathipriya, R. (2023). Vaccine rate forecast for COVID-19 in Africa using hybrid forecasting models. African Health Sciences, 23(1), 93-103. https://doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v23i1.11

The hybrid GRNN model performed better than the hybrid ARIMA model.

0994. Haribhai, S., Khadka, N., Mvududu, R., Mashele, N., . . . Joseph Davey, D.L. (2023). Psychosocial determinants of pre-exposure prophylaxis use among pregnant adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa: A qualitative study. International Journal of STD & AIDS, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09564624231152776

The safety and efficacy of long-acting PrEP (e.g., injectables, implants) among pregnant or breastfeeding women, specifically, remains to be confirmed.

0995. Jere, J., & Nyondo-Mipando, A.L. (2022). Exploring preferences of market traders of the type and delivery methods of HIV services in Lilongwe, Malawi. African Journal of AIDS Research, 21(4), 373-384. https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2022.2145490

HIV services preferred by market traders include testing, antiretroviral therapy, condom dispensation, voluntary medical male circumcision, and awareness campaigns.

0996. Mohamed, E.A.A., & Mohamed, K.S.A. (2023). Laboratory characteristics among patients with COVID-19: A single-center experience from Khartoum, Sudan. African Health Sciences, 23(1), 16-22. https://doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v23i1.3

CBC, D-dimer, and CRP provide an essential contribution to predict COVID-19 severity and prognosis.

0997. Musara, P., Hartmann, M., Ryan, J.H., Reddy, K., . . . van der Straten, A. (2022). Understanding the role of men in women’s use of the vaginal ring and oral PrEP during pregnancy and breastfeeding: Multi-stakeholder perspectives. African Journal of AIDS Research, 21(4), 354-363. https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2022.2138474

Pregnant and breastfeeding women’s ability to prevent HIV is shaped by traditional and contemporary gender norms in social settings.

0998. Ntemafack, A., Ayoub, M., Hassan, Q.P., & Gandhi, S.G. (2023). A systematic review of pharmacological potential of phytochemicals from Rumex abyssinicus Jacq. South African Journal of Botany, 154, 11-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2023.01.013

The plant has been used in traditional medicine to treat numerous diseases and has also found applications in textile and tanning.

0999. Olukosi, A.Y., Fowora, M., Adeneye, A.K., Chukwu, E., … Salako, B.L. (2023). A survey of chloroquine use for prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in Nigeria. African Health Sciences, 23(1), 83-92. https://doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v23i1.10

The danger of chloroquine overdose should be communicated to the general population in Nigeria.

1000. Oner, E., Demirhan, I., Miraloglu, M., Yalin, A., & Kurutas, E.B. (2023). Investigation of antiviral substances in Covid 19 by molecular docking: In silico study. African Health Sciences, 23(1), 23-36. https://doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v23i1.4

Bictegravir, remdevisir, and lopinavir drugs showed very good results compared to the N3 inhibitor.

1001. Ruhago, G., Forsythe, S., Van de Ven, R., & Apicella, L. (2022). Estimating the cost and efficiency gain of rolling out a multi-month dispensing programme for antiretroviral treatment in Tanzania. African Journal of AIDS Research, 21(4), 385-390. https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2022.2133619

The potential gains from multi-month dispensing could further be harnessed if retention of treatment and viral suppression monitoring are prioritized.

1002. Sendagire, H., Kiwuwa, S., Dhamani, A., Akugizibwe, R., … Nabadda, S. (2023). Staging of COVID-19 disease: Using selected laboratory profiles for prediction, prevention and management of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection in Africa–review. African Health Sciences, 23(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v23i1.2

We report a gross unmet need for vaccination, inadequate laboratory capacity for immunological tests, and prediction of disease severity.

1003. Tlaamela, D.M., & Mahlo, S.M. (2021). A survey of plant species used in traditional medicine for the treatment of various ailments in Aganang Local Municipality, Limpopo Province. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 20(1), 69–80.

The transfer of indigenous knowledge to younger generations is an important practice for preserving our useful medicinal plants.

Political Structure (Process, law)

1004. Aeby, M., & Pring, J. (2023). Development trajectories of mediation support structures in the AU, ECOWAS, IGAD and SADC. South African Journal of International Affairs, 30(1), 97-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2023.2203689

Mediation support structures are to support mediators, provide training, manage knowledge, and network.

1005. Alwab, B.G., Lecoutere, E., & Jones, N. (2022). Adolescents’ capabilities and aspirations across gender and generations in Amhara, Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 16(3), 472-494. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2022.2162191

The threat of gender-based violence pervasively constrains girls’ capabilities success and aspirations.

1006. Amougou, G., & Pleyers, G. (2023). The rise of an ‘indocile middle class’ in Cameroon. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 41(1), 28-43. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2022.2035327

We show the emergence of new subjectivities in citizens who decided to change the course of their lives following the 1990s democratic protests.

1007. Bagwandeen, M., Edyegu, C., & Otele, O.M. (2023). African agency, COVID-19 and debt renegotiations with China. South African Journal of International Affairs, 30(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2023.2180083

It would be more strategic for African officials to engage with the Chinese via multilateral channels when it comes to debt renegotiations.

1008. Bihonegn, A.A., & Mekonen, A.A. (2023). “It only reopens old wounds”: Lived experiences of Amhara genocide survivors from the Miakadra massacre in Ethiopia. Families in Society, 104(1), 31-46. https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894221127067

Themes centered on premassacre oppression and discrimination, traumatic experiences, emancipation, and coping mechanisms.

1009. Brinkman, I. (2022). Confinement and beyond: Space, mobility, and connections in two Mau Mau detention memoirs. Journal of the African Literature Association, 16(1), 68-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2021.2016248

Mau Mau detainees attempted to stay as close to their social networks and themselves as possible.

1010. Burchardt, M. (2023). Under pressure: South Africa’s middle classes and the ‘rebellion of the poor.’ Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 41(1), 86-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2022.2035701

Class positionalities shape people’s perceptions of their interests and their inclinations to support certain kinds of protest.

1011. Chen-Zion, N. (2022). Caught in Europe’s net: Ecological destruction and Senegalese migration to Spain. Review of African Political Economy, 49(174), 584-600. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2022.2186599

European extraction of wealth and resources from West Africa fosters migration.

1012. Chinyonga, B.C., & Kurebwa, J. (2023). Effectiveness of transitional justice processes in peacebuilding in Zimbabwe: The case of national peace and reconciliation commission. Journal of African Studies and Development, 15(2), 23-35. https://doi.org/10.5897/JASD2023.0677

The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission was far from meeting its mandate as enshrined in the Constitution of Zimbabwe and the NPRC Act.

1013. Cross, H. (2022). Migration, Europe, and the question of political and economic sovereignty in Africa. Review of African Political Economy, 49(174), 601-610. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2022.2176095

Border regimes, their modes of accumulation and selective labor policies expand militarism, social division, and inequality between and within the regions.

1014. Deutschmann, A. (2023). Education and politics: Student activism for elite recruitment in Kenya. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 41(1), 106-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2022.2034761

I analyze the education system on the basis of (qualitative) research on education and student activism.

1015. Ebiede, T.M. (2022). How armed militancy transformed power relations in the oil communities of Nigeria’s Niger Delta. Review of African Political Economy, 49(174), 569-583. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2023.2185880

People who are not aligned with militia groups are beginning to challenge the hegemony of militia groups.

1016. Errazzouki, S. (2023). Between the ‘yellow-skinned enemy’ and the ‘black-skinned slave’: Early modern genealogies of race and slavery in Sa’dian Morocco. The Journal of North African Studies, 28(2), 258-268. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2021.1927557

The Sàdi dynasty was an active player in the rise of racialized forms of slavery that eventually dominated the Atlantic for centuries.

1017. Gobbers, E. (2022). The electoral strategies of ethnic socio-cultural associations in former Katanga province, the Democratic Republic of Congo (2006–2019). Journal of Eastern African Studies, 16(3), 495-514. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2022.2162838

The attractiveness of ethnicity as a frame of reference for the electorate seems to increase in the context of a weak state failing to deliver public goods.

1018. Govantes, B., & de Larramendi, M.H. (2023). The Tunisian transition: A winding road to democracy. The Journal of North African Studies, 28(2), 419-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2021.1963238

Tunisia is the country where the anti-authoritarian uprisings known as the ‘Arab Spring’ started in 2010.

1019. Ives, B., & Breslawski, J. (2022). Greed, grievance, or graduates? Why do men rebel? Journal of Peace Research, 59(3), 319-336. https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433211014269

Areas with highly educated politically excluded ethnic group members are the most likely to experience violent events.

1020. Lewis, S. (2022). Nelson Mandela as poetic trope. Journal of the African Literature Association, 16(1), 118-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2022.2026149

Mandela’s name will continue to be invoked as a touchstone of personal character and national promise.

1021. Liu, S.X. (2022). How war-related deprivation affects political participation: Evidence from education loss in Liberia. Journal of Peace Research, 59(3), 353-366. https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433211019460

Educational deficiencies disproportionately decrease postwar job prospects, breeding resentment against the newly elected government.

1022. Lubotzky, A. (2022). “Don’t call us Kushim”: Racialized experiences and political activism among African students in Israel in the 1960s. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 13(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2021.1970419

African students taught the hosting society important lessons on political awareness, broad-mindedness, acceptance, and racial tolerance.

1023. Moyo, I. (2023). Beyond a tokenistic inclusion of indigenous knowledge systems in Protected Area governance and management in Okhahlamba-Drakensberg. African Geographical Review, 42(2), 141-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1997613

Indigenous community members should be co-managers in the political power hierarchy of the Protected Area if entrenched asymmetrical power relations are to be dismantled.

1024. Musyoka, J. (2023). South Africa’s black middle classes between 2009 and 2018. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 41(1), 75-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2022.2030466

Social and political action among the black middle classes should not be viewed as generic.

1025. Ndawana, E., & Hove, M. (2023). ZANU(PF)’s survival strategies and the co-option of civil society, 2000–2018. Journal of Southern African Studies, 49(1), 49-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2023.2183024

ZANU(PF)’s strategies in relation to civil society were equally critical for the regime’s survival in that they necessarily complemented the violent strategies.

1026. Neubert, D. (2023). How political is the ‘middle class’ in Kenya? Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 41(1), 44-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2021.1933396

We cannot identify a ‘middle class’ in the strict sense of the sociological class concept.

1027. Noll, A., & Budniok, J. (2023). Social protest and the middle class in Ghana: A social movement approach of three cases. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 41(1), 13-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2021.1931056

I discuss the specific interests and mobilizations for protest of middle-class activists.

1028. Okolie, A.-M., Nnamani, K.E., Nwangwu, C., Agbo, H.M., & Ike, C.C. (2022). Public procurement law, political economy of the lowest responsive bidding, and the development of the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in Nigeria. Review of African Political Economy, 49(174), 550-568. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2023.2194164

Various attempts at procurement regulation were moves to expand capital accumulation in the service delivery sector.

1029. Onyango, R.A. (2022). Police perceptions regarding the countering of violent extremism in Kenya. Acta Criminologica, 35(3), 25–46.

The Amnesty and Reintegration Program marks a radical paradigm shift from Kenya’s militarized counter-terrorism approach.

1030. Phiri, M.Z. (2023). Against imperial social policy: Recasting Mkandawire’s transformative ideas for Africa’s liberation. Critical Sociology, 49(3), 437-455. https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205221100832

Mkandawire’s scholarly corpus provides a programmatic approach to the unmaking of a hierarchical racialized neoliberal global order.

1031. Radnitz, S. (2022). Perceived threats and the trade-off between security and human rights. Journal of Peace Research, 59(3), 367-381. https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433211020809

External threats produce greater support for security than internal ones in more pluralistic regions.

1032. Ridge, H.R. (2023). Democratic culture theory in Tunisia. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 14(1), 69-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2022.2127996

Support for electoral democracy is separable from support for liberal values.

1033. Rofheart, M. (2023). Spaces of protest: Seydina Issa Sow’s campus graphic novel Sidy. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 35(1), 73-88. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2022.2154200

Sow uses French with occasional Wolof, as well as recognizable campus iconography, to differentiate the university from the rest of the city.

1034. Southall, R. (2023). The middle class and suburbia: Desegregation towards non-racialism in South Africa? Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 41(1), 60-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2022.2083589

White suburbia constitutes a major site where the struggle for non-racialism is taking place.

1035. Sundkvist, E. (2023). Sustaining motivation: Post-revolutionary oppositional consciousness among young Egyptian feminists. The Journal of North African Studies, 28(2), 269-293. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2021.1958315

Careful adherence to the activism’s past principles and efforts serves as a mechanism for sustaining continuity in their feminist movement.

1036. Tichaawa, T.M., Dayour, F., & Nunkoo, R. (2023). Residents’ trust in government, tourism impacts, and quality of life: Testing a structural model. Development Southern Africa, 40(2), 223-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2021.1974820

Residents perceived positive and negative impacts of tourism, knowledge of tourism, and perceived power in tourism.

1037. van Wyk, J.-A. (2023). The diplomacy of normalisation: The case of South Africa and Rwanda. South African Journal of International Affairs, 30(1), 47-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2023.2193564

Unresolved and emerging factors continue to compromise the prospects of normalized diplomatic relations between Kigali and Pretoria.

1038. Worku, L.T. (2023). Campus movements and student revolutionaries: Imagining Haile Selassie I University in Hiwot Teffera’s Memoir Tower in the Sky. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 35(1), 7-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2022.2151423

Haile Selassie I University has served the movement as a vital mental and physical space in shaping the students’ political consciousness.

1039. Yasun, S. (2022). Bureaucrat-local politician relations and hierarchical local governance in emerging democracies: A case study of Tunisia. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 13(1), 67-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2021.1993682

Municipal governance becomes less transparent when a governor shares a political background similar to the ideological position of the mayor’s party.

1040. Yosimbom, H.M. (2022). The tyranny of normative hedonism in postcolonial Cameroon: Literary explorations. Journal of the African Literature Association, 16(1), 151-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2021.2004489

In the fictional land of Mimbo, ruled by a power-drunk elite, there is political corruption, kleptomania, and sexual excess.

Psychological Studies

1041. Adjei, S.B., & Mpiani, A. (2023). Decolonising mind and being associated with marriage: Perspectives from Ghana. Psychology and Developing Societies, 35(1), 87-109. https://doi.org/10.1177/09713336231152311

We discuss the coloniality of mind and being associated with marriage, particularly the popular practice of a White wedding.

1042. Amazue, L.O., Brown, U.P., & Awo, L.O. (2023). Work-related need satisfaction and job crafting: Mediation of psychological empowerment in a Nigerian setting. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 33(1), 57-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2175953

High psychological empowerment scores were positively associated with high seeking challenges and resources.

1043. Carter, M., van der Watt, R., & Esterhuyse, K. (2023). Parent and peer attachment in bullying experiences among pre-adolescents. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 33(1), 26-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2182948

Parent attachment was not differentially associated with bullying experiences among boys and girls.

1044. Fadiji, A.W., Chigeza, S., & Kgopa, B. (2023). Who does better on life satisfaction and meaning in life? A Mixed-methods exploration of demographic characteristics and well-being in Ghana. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 33(1), 43-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2175961

We observed the group with below average standard of living referred extensively to hedonic conceptualizations of well-being.

1045. Gan, Y., Zhang, T., Gao, J., Li, Y., . . . Wang, W. (2023). The classroom environment and college students’ being silent/hidden dropouts: The chain of mediating effects of college identification and academic achievement. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 33(1), 75-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2175965

Development offices should pay attention to students re: the importance of creating a positive classroom environment.

1046. Guo, Y., Luo, S., & Tan, Y. (2023). Purpose in life and academic performance: Grit mediation among Chinese college students. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 33(1), 69-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2175970

A higher purpose in life (specifically goal orientation) is associated with superior academic performance.

1047. Jin, Z., Li, R., Liu, Y., Cui, W., & Yang, X. (2023). Father influences on child social adaptability: Mediation by peer communication ability. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 33(1), 35-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2182949

Fathers’ positive parenting attitudes (emotional warmth and understanding) can improve children’s peer communication.

1048. Koen, V., Chigeza, S., & Wissing, M.P. (2023). Relational importance in early and middle adulthood age groups in South Africa. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 33(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2182965

Younger adults indicated relationships with romantic partners, academics, and society as a whole.

1049. Mukebezi, R., Obaa, B.B., Kyazze, F.B., Mukasa, S.B., & Tamubula, I.B. (2023). Socio-psychological factors influencing farmers’ willingness to continue participating in collaborative activities of community-based innovation platforms in eastern Uganda. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 15(2), 227-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2022.2062654

Conveners of collaborative activities of community-based innovation platforms ought to improve farmers’ attitudes by organizing beneficial activities.

1050. Peltzer, K. (2023). Psychosocial factors associated with physical injury among adults in Eswatini. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 33(1), 86-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2175982

Binge drinking was significantly associated with road traffic injury and violent injury.

1051. Ren, M., Zou, S., Wang, J., Zhang, R., & Ding, D. (2023). Subjective socioeconomic status and envy in Chinese collectivist culture: The role of sense of control. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 33(1), 17-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2175986

The mediating role of sense of control is partially consistent with the social cognitive theory of social class.

1052. Samuel, S., & Ferreira, N. (2023). Multi-generational workforce job retention: Coping strategy influences among South African engineers. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 33(1), 50-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2175987

Affective positive (emotion-focused) coping significantly predicted satisfaction with retention factors.

1053. Truter, Z.M. (2023). Collaborative care for mental health in South Africa: A qualitative systematic review. South African Journal of Psychology, 53(1), 18-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/00812463221093525

I studied existing efforts towards collaboration and highlighted barriers and challenges associated with collaborative care in mental health care.

1054. Xie, Q., Zhou, B., Bi, T., Yang, B., & Kou, H. (2023). Trait anger and aggression among male violent offenders: The mediating effect of sadistic impulse and the moderating effect of emotion regulation. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 33(1), 10-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2182968

The emotion regulation theory of aggression states that people with sadism may assault others to improve their mood.

1055. Zhang, H., Xin, Z., Wang, Q., Li, Q., . . . & Wang, M. (2023). Proactive personality and academic procrastination in graduate students: Their chain-mediation by research self-efficacy and learning adaptability. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 33(1), 63-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2175991

We see a need for graduate student development and support services to aim at improving students’ self-efficacy.

Social Organization (Culture contact, migration, modernization)

1056. Addo, I.A. (2023). “That is still our tradition but in a modern form, but it still tells our story”: Transitions in buildings in northern Ghana. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 35(1), 104-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2022.2151422

Building practices are transitioning because of environmental changes, migration, wealth accumulation, and access to modern building materials.

1057. Balakian, S. (2023).Of aunts and mothers: Refugee resettlement, the nuclear family, and caring for “Other” children in Kenya. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46(2), 213-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2063693

Modes of kinship that exceed the bounds of the nuclear family become stigmatized intimate formations.

1058. Charamba, S., & Mukurazhizha, R. (2022). The hurdle of disseminating social work research findings in Zimbabwe and a proposed model. African Journal of Social Work, 12(4), 179-188.

If participants and key informants know that their contributions are valued they are likely to take research seriously.

1059. Dratwa, B. (2023). ‘Put South Africans first’: Making sense of an emerging South African xenophobic (online) community. Journal of Southern African Studies, 49(1), 85-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2023.2170126

A narrative of ‘modern-day slavery’ is fuelled by a belief in replacement conspiracies and a dystopic longing into the future.

1060. Frankema, E., & Van Waijenburg, M. (2023). Bridging the gap with the ‘new’ economic history of Africa. The Journal of African History, 64(1), 38-61. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853722000792

We need to study questions of demography, poverty, slavery, labor, inequality, migration, state formation, and colonialism.

1061. Gebru, A., & Wako, W. (2022). Walking the theories we talk: Utilizing African social work theories in African research. African Journal of Social Work, 12(4), 189-198.

African scholars should see inward to better prognoses in African matters and walk the theories we talk to be practical.

1062. Gulick, A.W. (2023). The campus as war zone: Contemporary Anglophone fiction, post-independence Civil War, and the African university. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 35(1), 37-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2022.2158789

War might also serve as a source of knowledge, a means of building and improving upon the anticolonial aspirations that were never fully achieved in the era of independence.

1063. Ibrahim, A.T.H., & Elsherbiny, M.M.K. (2022). Key drivers of Egyptian social work researchers’ low preference for using qualitative research methods in social work studies. African Journal of Social Work, 12(4), 142-152.

We provide strategies for helping social work researchers apply qualitative research methods in their studies.

1064. Laghssais, B., & Comins-Mingol, I. (2023). Beyond vulnerability and adversities: Amazigh women’s agency and empowerment in Morocco. The Journal of North African Studies, 28(2), 347-367. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2021.1990048

These women working in cooperatives for carpet weaving, argan oil production, and arts and crafts.

1065. Lijnders, L. (2023). “We have to separate so we can be together again”: Eritrean mothers’ gendered racialisation and family separation within the Israeli and UK asylum regimes. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46(2), 338-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2099748

The women are waiting while faced with protracted uncertainty and separation from their children.

1066. Musila, G.A. (2023). Refusal and the American dream in Dinaw Mengestu’s oeuvre. Journal of the African Literature Association, 17(1), 192-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2023.2180178

Some Ethiopian immigrants refuse to pursue the American dream and the freedoms it proposes.

1067. Ndubajam, L.N., Salifu Yendork, J., & Mills, A.A. (2023). The older adult migrant and support systems: A focus on Haatso and Agbogbloshie Yam Markets’ communities in Ghana. Families in Society, 104(1), 57-74. https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894221145087

Familial support was mainly material and unstructured, irregular, inadequate, conditional, and seasonal.

1068. Nunlall, R. (2022). An analysis of sexual harassment policies in higher educational institutions in South Africa. Acta Criminologica, 35(3), 1–24.

Policies do not make adequate provision for proactive prevention (i.e. addressing toxic masculine cultures, intersectional inequalities, and existing patriarchal ideology).

1069. Nyamwanza, O. (2023). Navigating insecurities in foreign territory: The experiences of Zimbabwean irregular immigrants at a South African informal settlement. Journal of Southern African Studies, 49(1), 105-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2023.2180720

Varied security strategies deployed are underlined by self-interest on the part of the many actors involved in the security–insecurity matrix.

1070. Öner, S., & Cirino, M. (2023). The perceptions of political and civil society actors on securitisation of sea rescue NGOs in the Mediterranean: The case of Italy. The Journal of North African Studies, 28(2), 392-418. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2021.1989586

Migrants will go on risking their lives by making a very risky journey across African states before trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.

1071. Ontong, J.M., Arendse-Fourie, S.-L., & Everts, R.P. (2022). Higher education’s role in teaching business acumen in offender rehabilitation in South Africa: A case study at the Drakenstein Correctional Facility. Acta Criminologica, 35(3), 70–85.

Various higher education institutions should consider the development of skills training.

1072. Ramsey-Soroghaye, B.M., & Ogbanga, M. (2022). Socio-cultural determinants hindering research among social workers in Nigeria. African Journal of Social Work, 12(4), 153-162.

Mitigating factors include funding, poor knowledge of research, mentorship and coaching on research, and the patriarchy system.

1073. Shajkovci, A., Abdirahman, R.M., Garry, A., McDowell-Smith, A., & Ahmed, M. (2023). Listening to women defectors from al Shabaab: Strengthening gender-sensitive disengagement efforts in Somalia. South African Journal of International Affairs, 30(1), 75-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2023.2200405

Personal identity, the mechanics of recruitment, pathways out of extremism, and the prevalence of gender stereotypes were studied.

1074. Simbine, S.L., Le Roux, L., & Muridzo, N.G. (2022). Research on the Vatsonga people of Southern Africa: A reflection on a case study. African Journal of Social Work, 12(4), 163-172.

We propose the dissemination of research findings to include indigenous communities.

1075. Smuts, L. (2023). Decently transgressing: Expressions of female heterosexuality and the discourses of (hetero)sexual pleasure in South Africa. Sexualities, 26(3), 388-406. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607211037479

By focussing on Tupperware-style sex-toy parties, I offer a glimpse into a “hidden” world of white, middle-class women.

1076. Sommerschuh, J. (2022). Becoming Amhara: Ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 16(3), 455-471. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2023.2205678

Not all Ethiopians wish to make ‘their’ ethnicity the cornerstone of their identity.

1077. Strong, K., & Ataman, J. (2023). Locus of struggle: The African campus and contemporary protest forms. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 35(1), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2022.2158788

Attention to campus protests confirms the continued importance of the university to popular struggles.

1078. Walker-Said, C., & Nlend, N.L.N. (2023). Policing Christianity in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Angola: Spiritual incorporation as therapy and threat in Africa. Journal of Africana Religions, 11(1), 27-56.

State security forces work to dismantle ties of affinity and restrain or apprehend religious authorities.

Symbol Systems (Religion, ritual, world view)

1079. Adebayo, S. (2022). The anatomy of oblivion in José Eduardo Agualusa’s A General Theory of Oblivion. Journal of the African Literature Association, 16(1), 105-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2021.2023420

Oblivion exists within the boundaries of what is known and unknown, what is revealed and concealed.

1080. Ademilokun, T.F., & Agunbiade, O.M. (2022). Approaches to epilepsy treatment among Yoruba traditional healers in southwest Nigeria. International Journal of Modern Anthropology, 2(18), 924-958. https://doi.org/10.4314/ijma.v2i18.2

Epilepsy is treated among traditional Yoruba healers using different approaches depending on the etiology of the case.

1081. Akinlotan, M. (2023). Mapping patterns of ideologies in Nigeria’s socio-political discourse: Evidence from herdsmen discourse. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 54(1), 61-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2023.2184416

Crisis discourse in Nigeria is often patterned around religious divide, ethnicity, nationhood, power abuse, and distrust.

1082. Bartle, R.S., & Arthur, J.B. (2022). Faith in the modern Reformed church: Calvin and Barth. Acta Theologica, 42(2), 121-138.

Calvin and Barth are arguably the main exponents of two notable soteriological camps in the Reformed world.

1083. Bryson, D. (2022). The Afrotopic economies of Felwine Sarr. Journal of the African Literature Association, 16(1), 134-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2022.2034099

Global systems of values, symbols, and narratives have constructed Africa as a site of crisis, impoverishment, and exploitation.

1084. Coates, A.M., & Kunnuji, J. (2022). Towards a contextual theology of conviviality: Tutu, Bonhoeffer and living musical metaphors. Acta Theologica, 42(2), 68-85.

Ethnomusicology shows us that the polyrhythm in Ogu music enriches our understanding of what it means to be-for-others.

1085. Conradie, E.M. (2022). The mirage of a triune rainbow. Acta Theologica, 42(2), 14-31.

South African debates may well serve as a thermometer to gauge the health of wider ecumenical discourse on the Trinity.

1086. Dube, E.E.E.N., & Sipeyiye, M. (2021). Rethinking doro (traditional brew) in the worldview of the Ndau of Zimbabwe: A postcolonial reflection. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 20(1), 1–12.

The condemnation of doro is a legacy of missionaries that omits or misses its social and religio-cultural functions among the Ndau people.

1087. Hofmann, P. (2023). Christian missionaries, slavery, and the slave trade: The Third Order of Saint Francis in eighteenth-century Angola. African Economic History, 51(1), 65-92.

Researchers overlook the active participation of religious institutions in slavery and the slave trade.

1088. Hovland, I. (2023). Protestant replications: The conversion, ordination, and schism of a Zulu bishop in colonial Natal. Journal of Religion in Africa, 53(2), 138–171. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340250

Ngidi’s story shows us how Protestants seek out replicated relations.

1089. Idumwonyi, I.M. (2023). Polygamy re-imagined and re-negotiated: A postcolonial reflection on gender, sexuality, and narrative theology in Africa Christianity. Journal of Africana Religions, 11(1), 98-118.

There has been a commodification of sex and a surge in sex work, workers, traffickers, and trafficking in Benin.

1090. Jaure, R., Makura, A.H., & Alexander, G. (2022). Towards a democratised method of data collection through the adoption and adaptation of the Shona concept of dare. African Journal of Social Work, 12(4), 173-178.

Participants have a platform to learn from each other and can identify with the collected data.

1091. Knuppe, A.J. (2023). The civilians’ dilemma: How religious and ethnic minorities survived the Islamic State occupation of northern Iraq. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 14(1), 37-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2022.2128001

I provide insights for scholars and practitioners interested in peacebuilding, transitional justice, and post-conflict reconstruction in fragile states.

1092. Lamak, K. (2023). The preslavery praxis and ethos of the religion of West African people. Journal of Religion in Africa, 53(2), 115–137. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340247

West Africans in precolonial periods had constructive knowledge of supreme deities and other beliefs.

1093. Landry, T.R. (2023). Fá divination, well-being, and coolness in Bénin, West Africa. Journal of Religion in Africa, 53(2), 220–247. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340248

I discuss the ways in which divination helps individuals fulfill their destinies and achieve goodness in the world.

1094. Magaya, A.T. (2022). “Change within continuity”: Sacred and holy spaces and socialization in Bocha, Zimbabwe, ca. 1910–1960s. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 13(1), 31-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2021.1984175

I point to the persistence of pre-Christian culture within an increasingly Bocha Christian community in the first half of the twentieth century.

1095. Marchinkowski, G. (2022). Swinging between two poles. Henri Nouwen’s unique metaphor for spiritual transformation. Acta Theologica, 42(2), 243-260.

I discuss nature of transformation in the classic mystical tradition and touch on the contributions of perennial philosophy.

1096. Meiring, P.G.J. (2022). Forgiveness, reconciliation and justice á la Desmond Tutu. Acta Theologica, 42(2), 86-103.

The role of religion in establishing truth and working towards justice, forgiveness, and reconciliation was controversial.

1097. Musa, H. (2022). On being uniquely human in the world: A reflection on the contributions of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen. Acta Theologica, 42(2), 276-293.

He used an interdisciplinary approach to stimulate the interface between theology and modern science.

1098. Nel, J.A., Venter, Z., & Stratford, V. (2022). Advancing social justice: Critical reflections on the hate crime and bias monitoring form. Acta Criminologica, 35(3), 47–69.

People are marginalized based on nationality, religion, status as a sex worker, and sexual orientation.

1099. Ngong, D. (2023). The Mbiti-Cone debate and the study of African religiosity. Journal of Africana Religions, 11(1), 57-76.

Study of Africana religiosity has often focused on African influences on African diaspora religiosity but rarely the other way round.

1100. Nweke, K.C. (2023). Traditional vs church wedding in Nigeria: A call for a resolution. The Expository Times, 134(5), 211-221. https://doi.org/10.1177/00145246221132264

A church wedding is cynically described as a “white wedding” and is an invasion of the Western culture, instrumentalized by the church.

1101. Roberts, F.O.N., Ijaiya, T.A., & Adewumi, A.P. (2023). The frustration of political choice and voter anguish in recent elections in Nigeria. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 17(2), 17-27. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJPSIR2023.1431

Religion, ethnicity, electoral body, election logistics, courts, electoral violence, and political intimidation impede voters.

1102. Sall, D. (2022). Love thy neighbour? Religion and ethnoracial boundaries among second-generation West African youth. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45(12), 2223-2245. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.2001026

Religion matters for ethnoracial boundaries: congregational demographics, religious codes of conduct, and Islamophobia.

1103. van Marle, K. (2022). Responsibility, refusal, and return: Thoughts on an ethics of inclination. Acta Theologica, 42(2), 104-120.

An ethics and ontology of inclination could, by way of refusal, disclose alternative understandings of law and rule of law.

1104. Verhoef, A.H. (2022). Engaging Rian Venter’s trinitarian theology: A Trinity of space and time. Acta Theologica, 42(2), 32-45.

Trinitarian theology contributed immensely to enriching theological thinking on aspects such as space and ethics.

1105. Willan, B. (2022). Revisiting Sol Plaatje’s Mafeking Diary. Journal of the African Literature Association, 16(1), 9-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2021.2016252

I look at the social and intellectual influences that helped form Plaatje’s world view as reflected in the diary.

1106. Williams, O. (2023). Medical legitimacy: Childbirth, pluralism, and professionalization in Nigeria’s faith-based Aladura birthing homes. The Journal of African History, 64(1), 96-111. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853723000026

The faith home transformed its identity from the informal realms of religious healing to a recognized religious entity.

Urban Studies

1107. Azubuko-Udah, C. (2022). Unwritten city: Abuja in the Nigerian literary imagination. Journal of the African Literature Association, 16(1), 86-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2021.1935648

There is a tendency to envision Abuja as a city of near-sterile orderliness with an arid landscape.

1108. Claassens, L., Adams, J.B., de Villiers, N.M., Wasserman, J., & Whitfield, A.K. (2023). Restoration of South African estuaries: Successes, failures and the way forward. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(1), 1-18.

Estuaries are resilient ecosystems and can recover rapidly if appropriate restoration interventions are successfully applied.

1109. Derso, W.G., & Gebremichael, B. (2022). The leasehold system and drivers of informal land transactions in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 16(3), 415-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2022.2164428

The land lease system in Ethiopia is ill-suited to the interests and reality of many urban dwellers.

1110. Echkaou, H., & Juarez-Paz, A.V.O. (2023). Ighrāq and tamyīʿ (sinking and diluting): Urban electronic newspapers from celebrating freedom into designing chaos. The Journal of North African Studies, 28(2), 368-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2021.1978292

Journalists warn against deteriorating conditions facilitated to increase practitioners call for rigid and paternalistic supervision of the field.

1111. Gillespie, T., & Schindler, S. (2022). Africa’s new urban spaces: Deindustrialisation, infrastructure-led development and real estate frontiers. Review of African Political Economy, 49(174), 531-549. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2023.2171284

Infrastructure-led development has fuelled extended and unplanned urbanization and new frontiers for real estate investment.

1112. Howe, L.B. (2022). Towards a cooperative urbanism? An alternative conceptualization of urban development for Johannesburg’s mining belt. Environment and Urbanization, 34(2), 391-412. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478221112032

I discuss ways to continue shifting urban planning and development towards increased environmental and social justice.

1113. Johnson, C., Osuteye, E., Ndezi, T. & Makoba, F. (2022). Co-producing knowledge to address disaster risks in informal settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: pathways toward urban equality? Environment and Urbanization, 34(2), 349-371. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478221112256

We examine how community assessments of risks travel into local governance and policymaking.

1114. Katumba, S., Coetzee, S., Stein, A., & Fabris-Rotelli, I. (2023). Using spatial indices to measure dynamic racial residential segregation in Gauteng province (South Africa). South African Geographical Journal, 105(1), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2021.1997793

Apartheid laws resulted in racial residential segregation that became entrenched into the urban morphology of South Africa.

1115. Macarthy, J., Koroma, B., Cociña, C., Butcher, S., & Frediani, A. (2022). The “slow anatomy of change”: urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Environment and Urbanization, 34(2), 294-312. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478221106611

We refer to the “slow anatomy of change” through which diverse knowledges have been consolidated.

1116. Melber, H. (2023). Explorations into middle class urbanites, social movements and political dynamics: Impressions from Namibia’s capital, Windhoek. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 41(1), 94-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2022.2081671

Can an urban middle class be of sufficient political influence to play a significant role in changes of political governance?

1117. Mtero, F., Gumede, N., & Ramantsima, K. (2023). Elite capture in South Africa’s land redistribution: The convergence of policy bias, corrupt practices and class dynamics. Journal of Southern African Studies, 49(1), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2023.2187969

Land reform is a new frontier of accumulation for different agribusinesses, urban-based business people, and state officials.

1118. Racaud, S. (2023). Low-cost Chinese goods in Tanzania: The rise of transnational trade routes’ peripheral branches. Critical African Studies, 15(1), 106-123. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2022.2154234

There are complementarities between trade and agriculture in terms of livelihood, circulation of capital, urban-rural mobility, and links to global scales.

1119. Ren, H., Zhang, Z., & Das, P. (2023). Bibliometric analysis on African Urbanization studies: Patterns and trends of published articles. South African Geographical Journal, 105(1), 54-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2021.2010590

Population, economy and land-use are the core issues of African urbanization studies.

1120. Sami, N., Lall, R., Anand, G., & Anand, S. (2022). Rethinking planning education for urban equality: Higher education as a site for change. Environment and Urbanization, 34(2), 413-429. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478221113623

We analyze what to teach, how to teach, whom to teach, who teaches and where to teach.

1121. Senbore, S., & Oke, S.A. (2023). Urban development impact on climate variability and surface water quality in part of Mangaung metropolis of South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 40(2), 293-312. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2021.1993794

Urban areas increased exponentially which led to increased loss of vegetation cover and shortage of water availability.

1122. Siame, G., & Watson, V. (2022). Insights into relations in community-led urban interventions in the global South: Civil society and co-production in Kampala. Environment and Urbanization, 34(2), 517-535. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478221098621

Success depends to a large extent on how these civil society actors address their internal conflicts.

1123. Stehle, F., Hickmann, T., Lederer, M., & Höhne, C. (2022). Urban climate politics in emerging economies: A multi-level governance perspective. Urbanisation, 7(1_suppl), S9–S25. https://doi.org/10.1177/2455747120913185

We explore the vertical and horizontal integration of cities’ climate actions in the multi-level climate governance landscapes.

1124. Wahba, S.N. (2022). Can cities bounce back better from COVID-19? Reflections from emerging post-pandemic recovery plans and trade-offs. Environment and Urbanization, 34(2), 481-496. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478221102867

City recovery will likely involve some transformation to land uses and real estate markets with increasing demand for urban amenities.

1125. Wilbard, K., Kyessi, A.G., & Limbumba, T.M. (2022). How co-production contributes to urban equality: Retrospective lessons from Dar es Salaam. Environment and Urbanization, 34(2), 278-293. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478221114023

Co-production is a preferred strategy for leveraging resources to deliver basic infrastructure services in low-income settlements.