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- Visual narrative of dissent soundscape : Lemi Ghariokwu on the Afrobeat tradition
- Creator
- Olorunyomi, Sola
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Glendora Review
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- Urban anxiety and its sonic response : narrating Ghanaian gospel-highlife
- Creator
- Collins, John, 1944-
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Glendora Review
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- Return to the shrine : Fela Kuti's legacy inspires an Afro-funk revival
- Creator
- Veal, Michael E., 1963-
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Glendora Review
- Title
- Remembering Satchmo
- Creator
- Osundare, Niyi, 1947-
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Glendora Review
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- Finding the "missing" male in gender discourses in Botswana
- Creator
- Mookodi, G.
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Pula : Botswana Journal of African Studies
- Description
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Researchers and activists in Botswana have played an active role in the international campaign to alleviate women"s subordinate position in economic development. Of late attention has shifted from "women" to "gender". This shift has been premised on the need to provide a more holistic framework that focuses on relations between women and men, rather than on women exclusively. However, there are mounting concerns among academics and development practitioners that the gender debate has reached...
Show moreResearchers and activists in Botswana have played an active role in the international campaign to alleviate women"s subordinate position in economic development. Of late attention has shifted from "women" to "gender". This shift has been premised on the need to provide a more holistic framework that focuses on relations between women and men, rather than on women exclusively. However, there are mounting concerns among academics and development practitioners that the gender debate has reached a stalemate in Botswana. The impasse is manifested in the perception that "gender" and "women" are used as synonyms in much gender discourse, research and activism. This paper argues that focusing on women and ostracising men makes the task of mainstreaming (or engendering) research and practice an unobtainable illusion. We propose new dimensions in gender discourses that will provide more balanced perspectives on both women and men.
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- Once upon a luster
- Creator
- Frankel, Andy
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Glendora Review
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- Directions : Miles Davis & Jazz in transition, 1968-1971
- Creator
- Veal, Michael E., 1963-
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Glendora Review
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- Personnel transfers : experiences of Batswana teachers
- Creator
- Ntseane, Dolly
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Pula : Botswana Journal of African Studies
- Description
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This article analyses the findings of a study conducted to investigate the effects of teacher transfers on family well-being. While much concern has been raised about the trauma of transfers on families, this is the first empirical study conducted to investigate these concerns. The primary aim of the study was therefore to understand the experiences of teachers affected by transfers. Data was collected using a survey questionnaire addressed to 361 transferred teachers in selected primary and...
Show moreThis article analyses the findings of a study conducted to investigate the effects of teacher transfers on family well-being. While much concern has been raised about the trauma of transfers on families, this is the first empirical study conducted to investigate these concerns. The primary aim of the study was therefore to understand the experiences of teachers affected by transfers. Data was collected using a survey questionnaire addressed to 361 transferred teachers in selected primary and secondary schools. In addition face-to-face indepth interviews were conducted with 20 couples. The findings suggest that transfers are a source of great strain when separate residences have to be maintained as a result of the transfer. In general couples experience enormous challenges in their marriages. They have difficulties parenting at a distance and are financially burdened due to maintaining two separate homes. The study provides much-needed literature on the impact of personnel transfers on families. It also offers policy makers and practitioners with a sound information base for the development of transfer policy that takes family needs into consideration.
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- Composer looks east : Steve Reich and discourse on non-Western music
- Creator
- Gopinath, Sumanth S.
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Glendora Review
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- An exploration of street vending's contribution towards Botswana's vision of prosperity for all by 2016
- Creator
- Jimu, Ignasio Malizani
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Pula : Botswana Journal of African Studies
- Description
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This article is a critical appraisal of the pros and cons of street vending and shows that with proper regulation and control; within the parameters of freedom to economic opportunity and success, street vending could be a positive though not a core force in the socio-economic transformation and development of poorer urban communities. The romanticism and pedantic controls and regulation need not prevent street vendors from exercising their inventiveness. This represents a challenge to the...
Show moreThis article is a critical appraisal of the pros and cons of street vending and shows that with proper regulation and control; within the parameters of freedom to economic opportunity and success, street vending could be a positive though not a core force in the socio-economic transformation and development of poorer urban communities. The romanticism and pedantic controls and regulation need not prevent street vendors from exercising their inventiveness. This represents a challenge to the view that prosperity can be attained only by promoting large-scale public and private economic enterprises and suggests the need to provide everybody with the latitude to contribute their own share, however meager individual contributions and accomplishments may appear.
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- In praise of shadow boxers : an exploration of the "crisis of originality and authority in African-American pictorial culture versus the Wu Tang Clan"
- Creator
- Tate, Greg
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Glendora Review
- Title
- At the cross roads : family, youth deviance and crime control in Botswana
- Creator
- Balogi, K. T. O.
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Pula : Botswana Journal of African Studies
- Description
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Since the 1980s, some major villages in Botswana have experienced an increase in deviance and crime among youth. This deviance is often manifested in an escalation of criminal gangs that are mostly male in composition. The intense search for the causes of this problem by traditional and modern custodians of law often blame parents' inability to control and guide their children. This paper explores some of the difficulties of regarding the family as either the cause or the potential solution...
Show moreSince the 1980s, some major villages in Botswana have experienced an increase in deviance and crime among youth. This deviance is often manifested in an escalation of criminal gangs that are mostly male in composition. The intense search for the causes of this problem by traditional and modern custodians of law often blame parents' inability to control and guide their children. This paper explores some of the difficulties of regarding the family as either the cause or the potential solution to the problem of youth deviance and crime. Blaming families fails to take into account the effects of societal changes that undermine the effectiveness of the family as an agent of social control. Drawing on existing literature, this paper concludes that it is no longer useful to assume the centrality of the family in combating youth crime. Poverty, unemployment, changes in marriage patterns and divorce must also be taken into account, as all of these have serious implications on the structure and agency of the family. This calls for a baseline study on the family to put the fundamental issues of its structure and agency into proper socio-economic and cultural perspective.
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- Title
- African musical aesthetics & African-American music critics, 1865-1945
- Creator
- Strong, Willie Frank, 1964-
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Glendora Review