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Names are very powerful and significant, especially in the African context. Across societies, there is a universal, albeit taken-for-granted fact that all human beings have names. Names Fashioned by Gender is a collection of essays on onomastics - a linguistics field of study focusing on the origin, form, history and use of proper names.

Presents ways in which correctional education could be improved. The whole correctional system needs to prioritise the empowerment of offenders through skills and education they will use to make a living once they are released from custody and reintegrated back into society.

Confusion, struggle, commotion and absurdity: these characterise the urban encounter between the African immigrant community and colonial officials in Douala, Cameroon. Even the physical landscape reflects a painfully enduring history of marginalisation, of exclusion from power and privilege.

An essential handbook that companies, universities, students and ordinary laymen alike should have in their possession to be able to navigate the security risks and seize the opportunities associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Focuses on initiatives, laws and regulations aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of boards of public entities. Corporate Governance in Zimbabwe's Public Entities is designed to influence the formulation of policies where the application of corporate governance and the development of the jurisprudence is not in advanced stages yet.

Presents a critical appraisal of Unisa's transformation as it navigates the unfolding saga of South Africa's political development. This official history of the University of South Africa provides a platform on which future narratives around Unisa can be constructed.

The Road to Democracy book series by SADET `... represents a serious-minded and valuable effort to record vital aspects of the history of resistance to apartheid' - Saul Dubow, University of Sussex. Two enduring challenges in South African historiography are addressed by this group of committed scholars from SADET.

Examines the role of anti-apartheid movements around the world and their success in both creating awareness of the liberation struggle in South Africa, and in contributing to the downfall of the apartheid government. This title focuses on International Solidarity with the liberation struggle.

Explores the critical yet unacknowledged role that universities have played in the politics of statehood and nation building, demonstrating how successive colonial and postcolonial governments have sought to use university education as a means to advance political and economic interests.

Investigates the lives of key men and women who were part of Steve Biko's political sphere. These interviews offer personal insights on their interactions with Biko, on what Biko meant to each of them and the deep sense of loss they were left with when Biko was killed.

Offers an historical reflection on facing the timeless challenges of being human in relation to other humans. The book explores the value of solidarity and the redemptive power of taking responsibility for participation in systems that benefit the few no matter the suffering of the many. It affirms the human need to travel and to know our common history.

The common thread in this book is the exploration of innovative pedagogies in language teaching and language use in education. Whether set in Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, South Africa or elsewhere in Africa, all the chapters in this book emphasise the imperative for educators to constantly revise curricula and teaching methods.

Challenges the common view that animals are essentially inferior to human beings: it is both the start of a long overdue conversation and a call to action. Africa and Her Animals investigates and analyses the moral, social, cultural, religious, and legal status of non-human animals in Africa.

``There are many reasons to welcome Adeleke Ade?k?'s new edition of the letters of the Reverend Phillip Quaque: the letters bring new insights into the contradictions that defined the encounter between Europeans and West Africans in the modern period.

Reincarnation is a focus of much debate in modern African thought. In this challenging study, Majeed rejects the denial of the existence of reincarnation in African thought by reference to Akan culture. Linking the past - ancient religious philosophies - with present African thought in sub-Saharan Africa, he strives towards an "African philosophy of mind".

Filled with interesting and original insights, Children in Contemporary African Fiction makes for engrossing reading, both for the general reader and the academic. With a keynote tone at once empathetic and non-sentimental John Kearney explores an impressive number of novels by writers from a variety of African countries.

Examines the role of antiapartheid movements around the world. This volume in the series The Road to Democracy in South Africa examines International Solidarity with the liberation struggle in South Africa. This volume's strength is that it brings together analyses which in the main are written by activist scholars with roots in the movements and organisations they are writing about.

At a time when African National Congress-alliance politics are again prominent in South Africa, this nuanced study of the intersection of class and African national forces in the history of Africa's oldest national liberation movement helps explain the deeper origins of this alliance.

Education, economy and society is a compelling and comprehensive antidote to the misconstrued nature of the relationship between education and society.

The highly talented author, Dominica Dipio was inspired by a desire to undertake this study from her interest in gender, and the increasing attention African cinema is drawing in the history of world cinemas. Attaining its identity in the 1960s, this cinema is characteristically a post-colonial art form.

Compiled by a seasoned professional, this is a user-friendly instructional CD which provides training in strategies for improving one's memory. After introducing study management skills, five sections offer the user different strategies for improving memory.

Open distance learning (ODL) is a viable solution for higher education in the context of developing countries. Practical and Critical Issues in Open Distance Learning maps the field of distance education and its socio-political context, uncovers key debates surrounding learner support, and provides practical demonstrations of e-learning and mobile technology.

Unlike the bulky academic versions of SADET's Road to Democracy, the Abridged Edition series is much shorter; it is quicker and easier to read. The footnotes, the lengthy quotations, and overwhelmingly intricate detail have been removed. What remains is the stark truth; an outline of how, in a myriad of ways, African states helped the South African struggle for freedom.