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Ikem, Patrick Afamefune; Oladejo, Abiodun Omotayo(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-05-25)
Although Nigerian elections are sufficiently observed by domestic and international observer groups, the frequent pronouncements of religious leaders claiming to have supernatural insights into election outcomes have never ...
A month after I was raped I am sitting in the waiting room of the Heideveld Thutuleza Care Centre waiting
to have an HIV test. On the couch opposite me, there is another womxn.1 She looks about eighteen. She is
Black. ...
How might an African based knowledge critically cast doubt upon globally
hegemonic notions and traditions in understanding and theorizing men and
masculinities? This essay examines this question through a critical ...
Recent work on African psychology (Long, 2016; Makhubela, 2016; Nwoye, 2015) has restaged,
and at times perhaps worsened, the decades-old confusion about the definition, scope, impetus for,
and ultimate aims of an ...
Van Niekerk, Ashley; Kimemia, David; Seedat, Mohamed; Annegarn, Harold(SAJS, 2022-03-29)
Energy poverty is the constrained access to modern forms of energy. In South Africa, energy impoverished communities are dependent on a mixture of solid fuels (e.g. wood or coal) and hydrocarbons such as paraffin. These, ...
This article provides a theoretical introduction to a two-installment special issue on decolonial approaches to the psychological study of social issues. Decolonial approaches propose that colonial violence is not confined ...
Oladejo, Abiodun Omotayo(Management and Economics Research Journal, 2022-02-01)
This paper focuses on the impacts of water stress on health outcomes. It specifically investigates the health effects of insufficiency of water for sanitary needs in drought-affected households. A focus group discussion ...
Water stress, occasioned by irregular and insufficient rainfall, has been found to have far-reaching impacts on human lives and livelihoods. Often, these impacts have been linked to agriculture, industry and household water ...
Tea is the second most highly consumed beverage in the world. The British
colonial rulers introduced tea plantation in the early 1830s in the Indian
subcontinent. Since then, it has been cultivated and consumed in ...
Saunders, Colleen Jayne; Adriaanse, Robyn; Simons, Abigail; Van Niekerk, Ashley(2019)
Introduction Drowning is a neglected public health
threat in low-income and middle-income countries where
the greatest drowning burden is observed. There is a
paucity of drowning surveillance data from low-resource ...
Background. Even though the rate of eldercide (homicide in the age group ≥60 years) in South Africa (SA) is higher than the global rate, it
receives little attention compared with homicide in younger (<60 years) age ...
The goal of this study was to illustrate the development and utility of a community violence surveillance
methodology, as a component of a larger participatory violence prevention project in a low-income South African ...
Conceptual disagreement remains rife with regard to African psychology with some scholars
mistakenly equating it to, for example, ethnotheorizing and traditional healing, while others
confound African psychology with ...
By considering how psychologists are able to hold (that is, support distinctive ontologies)
Liberation Psychology (LP) with Marxisms, this article interrogates psychological approaches to
liberation in two ways. First, ...