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0751. Abdelhamed, N.H.H. & Roueché, C. (2019). Digitising Libyan heritage: Inscriptions and toponomy. Libyan Studies, 50, 87–92.

These digital projects are the result of extensive and ongoing collaboration between researchers from different countries.

0752. Abdrbba, M.O.M. (2019). Water supply systems in Cyrenaica during the Greek and Roman periods: Cyrene in context. Libyan Studies, 50, 99–105.

I discuss water distribution in Cyrene in the Greek era and how the system developed through time.

0753. Barker, G. (2019). Libyan landscapes in history and prehistory. Libyan Studies, 50, 9–20.

The faunal assemblage from Sidi Khrebish, Benghazi, provides insights into how Graeco-Roman city-dwellers interacted with the people of the countryside.

0754. Biveridge, F. (2020). Archaeological manifestations of cross-cultural encounters along the Dixcove coastline, Western Region, Ghana. Azania, 55, 189–216.

Prior to the arrival of the British, Dixcove was a small coastal chiefdom with fishing and salt production.

0755. Di Valerio, E. (2019). The Western Necropolis of Cyrene: The Wadi Belghadir road. Libyan Studies, 50, 137–146.

The tombs have been looted of marble statues, busts, and portraits.

0756. Eleni Zimi, K. & Göransson, K.S. (2019). Pottery and trade at Euesperides in Cyrenaica: An overview. Libyan Studies, 50, 21–33.

Cyrenaican pottery and transport amphorae have been also identified at Euesperides implying a considerable volume of inter-regional trade.

0757. Franke, G., Höhn, A., Schmidt, A., Ozainne, S., …, Neumann, K. (2020). Pits, pots and plants at Pangwari — Deciphering the nature of a Nok Culture site. Azania, 55, 129–188.

Nigerian Nok Culture is known for its elaborate terracotta figurines, iron metallurgy, Canarium schweinfurthii and pearl millet.

0758. Kumbani, J. (2020). Music and sound-related archaeological artefacts from southern Africa from the last 10,000 years. Azania, 55, 217–241.

Artifacts include a bullroarer, spinning disks, bone tubes that might have been used as flutes, a trumpet, whistles, bells and mbira keys.

0759. Mattingly, D.J. (2019). A road less travelled? The Society for Libyan Studies and the landscape archaeology of Libya's early civilisations. Libyan Studies, 50, 35–46.

Many important contributions are leading to a re-evaluation of Maghribian and Saharan societies in the Iron Age and Roman periods.

0760. Mattingly, D.J., Bokbot, Y., & Sterry, M. (2019). The Middle Draa Project (Morocco): Results from the survey and trial excavations 2015–18. Libyan Studies, 50, 73–80.

We focus on the Iron Age, when the first steps towards sedentism and oasis agriculture appear.

0761. Ndobochani, N.M. (2020). The Kwena of Botswana and the cattle post institution. Azania, 55, 258–289.

I studied herd management strategies in southern Africa and beyond and then defined a cattle post (Tswana moraka).

0762. Paterson, A. (2020). Sound and song lines in the rock art of the Cederberg. The Digging Stick, 37(1), 17–21.

Sound can be implied from the placement and relative positions of the San figures and animals in a painting.

0763. Russell, T. (2020). The role of the Cape’s unique climatic boundaries in sustaining specialised pastoralists in southern Africa during the last 2000 years. Azania, 55, 242–257.

Good livestock grazing and all year-round rainfall would have been found by moving between zones and in the summer rainfall zone.

0764. Schmid, V.C., Porraz, G., Zeidi, M., & Conard, N.J. (2019). Blade technology characterizing the MIS 5 D-A layers of Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Lithic Technology, 44, 199–236.

The people used a laminar reduction strategy characterized by unidirectional cores with a lateral crest opposite a flat surface.

0765. Thackeray, J.F. (2020). A rock painting at Snowhill Cave in the Drakensberg. The Digging Stick, 37(1), 10–11.

I describe a trance-related shamanic therianthrope (part animal and part person) with human legs but an antelope head and body, probably that of an eland.

0766. van der Merwe, R.H. & Pikirayi, I. (2019). Identifying Zulu military ('amakhanda') settlements in the archaeological record. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 74(210), 91–100.

We examined the size, function, and cultural material deposition of each settlement type.

0767. Wadley, L. & Sievers, C. (2020). The earliest evidence (170 000 years ago) for cooked root vegetables. The Digging Stick, 37(1), 1–3.

In the Lebombo Mountains the Border Cave rhizomes were identified as Hypoxis angustifolia, a root vegetable.

0768. Wintjes, J. & Tiley-Nel, S. (2019). The Lottering connection: Revisiting the 'discovery' of Mapungubwe. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 74(210), 101–110.

We discuss Mapungubwe's early history by examining its association with Francois Bernard Lotrie (or Lottering), who allegedly knew of the site's existence in the late 19th century.

0769. Agina, A. (2020). Cinema-going in Lagos: Three locations, one film, one weekend. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32, 131–145.

Scholars are yet to articulate how the cinema-going audiences engage with Nollywood films in specific cine-plexes.

0770. Agu, D.C.C. & Okpara, M.U. (2019). The various levels of musical activities of the Igbo children in Igbo culture of Nigeria. AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 8(4), 159–172.

The methods of imparting musical knowledge vary according to age and music type.

0771. Amannah, P.I. & Ebitimi, E. (2019). New media use and proficiency among communication educators in select South-South Universities Nigeria. AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 8(4), 173-191.

Policy makers should include new media applications as part of the means for curriculum delivery in the educational system.

0772. Anyaduba, C.A. (2019). Genocide and hubristic masculinity in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun. Research in African Literatures, 50(2), 86–104.

I argue that the masculinity epitomized by Okonkwo has been misappropriated as normative Igbo maleness in Half of a Yellow Sun.

0773. Arenberg, M. (2020). Tanzanian Ujamaa and the shifting politics of Swahili poetic form. Research in African Literatures, 50(3), 7–28.

I trace the emergence of poetic voices responding to and questioning both the form and content of dominant political discourse.

0774. Bourland, I. (2019). John Akomfrah: Multichannel prehensions. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 45, 128–139.

His diasporic histories provide crucial insights into the early twenty-first century: national sovereignty and spaces of flow and mobility.

0775. Buck-Morss, S. (2020). Universal history upside down: Reflections on Hegel and Haiti. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 46, 28–39.

Theoretical pragmatics as a method of universal history, the transitory visibility of truth, respects the past’s lack of closure and welcomes the past’s intrusion in the present.

0776. Das, J. (2019). Illness as metaphor: Donald Rodney’s X-ray photographs. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 45, 88–98.

I consider illness, art, and activism while reflecting on the effects of living with sickle cell disease.

0777. De Beukelaer, C. & Eisenberg, A.J. (2020). Mobilising African music: How mobile telecommunications and technology firms are transforming African music sectors. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32, 195-211.

Limited enforcement of copyright regimes and weak market regulation created new entrepreneurial business models.

0778. Gabsi, Z. (2020). The language of hip hop and rap in Tunisia: socio-cultural mirror, authenticity tool, and herald of change. The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 545–571.

I argue for the power of music in the context of political and socio-economic grievances in post-Arab Spring Tunisia.

0779. Hassan, S.M. (2020). Contemporary African art as a paradox: Is “Afropolitan” the answer? Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 46, 8–26.

I assert the importance of movement, mobility, and transiency in addressing issues of contemporary African artistic and cultural production.

0780. Hylton, R. (2019). Eugene Palmer and Barbara Walker: Photography and the black subject. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 45, 100–113.

I stress the contrasting relationship to photography that each artist pursued in the making of their respective bodies of work.

0781. Kerman, M. (2019). The aesthetics of migration in an age of anxiety: Zineb Sedira, Allan deSouza, and Mary Evans. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 45, 114–126.

Their works reclaim the imagery associated with the “abject immigrant” to restore their agency as well as their humanity.

0782. Mphande, L. (2020). Malawi in verse: Authenticity, African literature, and indigenous aesthetic forms. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 357–374.

African oral forms should be centered as a critical platform for an authentic literary theory that takes indigenous African languages and literatures seriously.

0783. Omoera, O.S. & Omoruan, D.E. (2019). The river goddess and melody-makers in Nigeria: A cultural view on Majek Fashek and Victor Uwaifo. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, 7(2), 31–54.

Although music-making is a mental/creative activity, spiritual or extra-mental influences supervene.

0784. Osiebe, G. (2020). Methods in performing Fela in contemporary Afrobeats, 2009–2019. African Studies, 79, 88–109.

Afrobeats musicians have appropriated the text, synthesized the sound, conjured the appearance and invoked the name and symbolisms of Fela.

0785. Shringarpure, B. (2020). Africa and the Digital Savior Complex. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32, 178–194.

A ‘Digital Savior Complex’ not only transforms complex crises into quotidian cyber realities but furthers existing colonial hierarchies.

0786. Sryfi, M. (2020). The genesis of the Moroccan novel in Arabic: A review of the origins of the modern fusion of mature domestic and imported literary forms. The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 363–385.

The Moroccan novel in Arabic comes from two influences, the Western modern novel and the pre-modern historical and contextual attributes.

0787. Tsarwe, S. (2020). Mobile phones and a million chatter: Performed inclusivity and silenced voices in Zimbabwean talk radio. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32, 161–177.

Digital media technologies increase options for integrating more voices into public dialogue, but cannot ensure inclusivity.

0788. Ureke, O. (2020). Locating Sembène’s mégotage in Zimbabwe’s kiya kiya video-film production. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32, 146–160.

Self-funding exists for films as well as filmmakers exhibiting their own work to raise funds for future production.

0789. Yoon, D.M. (2020). Cold War creolization: Ousmane Sembène's Le Dernier de l'empire. Research in African Literatures, 50(3), 29–50.

Sembène blends griot storytelling techniques, flashback (analepsis), and Soviet montage to critique neocolonialism in the postcolony.

0790. Zielinski, S. (2020). Means and seas. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 46, 40–54.

I study the cosmopolitan attitude as a paradox that is oriented to the particular individual and simultaneously to an imaginary world community, the universal.

0791. Adams, F.V. & Teichroeb, J.A. (2020). Microhabitat use in Angolan Colobus Monkeys (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii) at Nabugabo, Uganda demonstrates intraspecific variability. International Journal of Primatology, 41, 24–44.

We found that tree species were generally used relative to their availability in the forest and their value as food species.

0792. Ahmad, H.B., Rauf, S., Chattha, W.S., Hussain, B., …, Rasool, I. (2019). Diversity analysis of mungbean (Vigna radiata) germplasm using a semi-graphical technique. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 36, 393–396.

Grain legumes such as mungbean are often co-cultivated with cereals.

0793. Brand, S.J., Botha, T.L., & Wepener, V. (2020). Behavioural response as a reliable measure of acute nanomaterial toxicity in zebrafish larvae exposed to a carbon-based versus a metal-based nanomaterial. African Zoology, 55, 57–66.

Exposure to quantum dots affected various locomotor and behavior endpoints over time, i.e. distance travelled, swimming speed, mobility, and acceleration states.

0794. Breytenbach, A. & Van Niekerk, A. (2020). Analysing DEM errors over an urban region across various scales with different elevation sources. South African Geographical Journal, 102, 133–169.

We determined the variation in data quality across several urban land cover types and slope classes.

0795. Chase, B.M., Boom, A., Carr, A.S., Quick, L.J., & Reimer, P.J. (2020). High-resolution record of Holocene climate change dynamics from southern Africa's temperate-tropical boundary, Baviaanskloof, South Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 539, 109518.

We infer a dominant influence of the southern westerlies in determining multi-millennial scale hydroclimate variability.

0796. Chingwaru, C., Bagar, T., & Chingwaru, W. (2020). Aqueous extracts of Flacourtia indica, Swartzia madagascariensis and Ximenia caffra are strong antibacterial agents against Shigella spp., Salmonella typhi and Escherichia coli O157. South African Journal of Botany, 128, 119–127.

Flacourtia indica bark, Swartzia madagascariensis leaves, and Ximenia caffra leaves are used to manage diarrhea.

0797. Collinson, W.J., Parker, D.M., Bernard, R.T.F., Reilly, B.K., & Davies‐Mostert, H.T. (2019). Factors influencing the spatial patterns of vertebrate roadkill in South Africa: The Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area as a case study. African Journal of Ecology, 57, 552–564.

More roadkill is predicted to occur in both open and dense mopane and dense mixed bushveld habitats, on a hill, and at a bank on the side of the road.

0798. Conrad, J., Smit, L., Murray, K., van Gend-Muller, J., & Seyler, H. (2019). The Malmesbury Group - an aquifer of surprising significance. South African Journal of Geology, 122, 317–330.

At the Paarl site, a correlation is seen between aquifer parameters and their proximity to an inferred extension of the Wellington – Piketberg Fault and Shear Zone from published geological maps.

0799. Cunneyworth, P.M.K. & Duke, J. (2020). Vehicle collisions among four species of monkeys between 2000 and 2018 on a suburban road in Diani, Kenya. International Journal of Primatology, 41, 45–60.

Collision rates vary with species, age class, and, in some species, sex and that rainfall is one factor that affects these rates.

0800. de Necker, L., Manfrin, A., Ikenaka, Y., Ishizuka, M., …, Smit, N.J. (2020). Using stable δ13C and δ15N isotopes to assess foodweb structures in an African subtropical temporary pool. African Zoology, 55, 79–92.

The foodweb consisted of only three trophic levels and comprised different foodweb items between the two seasons.

0801. Dechassa, C., Simane, B., & Alamerew, B. (2020). Analysis of farmers’ perceived and observed climate variability and change in Didessa sub-basin, Blue Nile River, Ethiopia. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 15(2), 149-164.

Scientist and policymakers have to integrate the meteorological information into farmers’ perception and knowledge of climate variability.

0802. Deng, X.H., Nie, Q.J., Qiu, Z.M., Gan, C.X., …, Zhu, F.J. (2020). Identification and mapping QTLs of bolting time in purple cai-tai (Brassica rapa L. var. purpurea). African Journal of Agricultural Research, 15(2), 165–178.

The genetic results of bolting time will be useful for future breeding of late bolting in purple cai-tai.

0803. Diamond, R.E., Dippenaar, M.A., & Adams, S. (2019). South African Hydrostratigraphy: A conceptual framework. South African Journal of Geology, 122, 267–268.

We propose a hydrostratigraphic classification based geology, geomorphology and climate, as well as climate and human involvement.

0804. Dube, T., de Necker, L., Wepener, V., Smit, N.J., …, Brendonck, L. (2020). A comparison of aquatic macroinvertebrate and large branchiopod community composition between temporary pans of a conservation area and surrounding communal area in South Africa. African Zoology, 55, 67–77.

Reserve protection has a significant positive effect on the diversity and community structure of the aquatic macroinvertebrates.

0805. Duma, S.W., Shimelis, H., Ramburan, S., & Shayanowako, A.I.T. (2020). Optimising the number of test sites, crop-years and replications to maximize post-release testing efficiencies. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 61–70.

The evaluation of sugarcane cultivars across locations as opposed to crop cycles is essential.

0806. Erhabor, J.O., Omokhua, A.G., Ondua, M., Abdalla, M.A., & McGaw, L.J. (2020). Pharmacological evaluation of hydro-ethanol and hot water leaf extracts of Bauhinia galpinii (Fabaceae): A South African ethnomedicinal plant. South African Journal of Botany, 128, 28–34.

We support the folkloric use of the plant in treating gastrointestinal disorders, inflammation and infectious diseases.

0807. Girgan, C., Claassens, S., & Fourie, H. (2020). Nematode assemblages and soil microbial communities in soils associated with glyphosate-resistant soybean. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 11–22.

Positive relationships were found between nematode trophic groups and their corresponding microbial prey.

0808. Greyvenstein, B., du Plessis, H., & van den Berg, J. (2020). The charismatic praying mantid: A gateway for insect conservation. African Zoology, 55, 109–118.

Mantids could be used as a flagship or gateway species to advance awareness of insect conservation.

0809. Grogan, J., Plumptre, A., Mabonga, J., Nampindo, S., …, Balmford, A. (2020). Ranging behaviour of Uganda’s elephants. African Journal of Ecology, 58, 2–13.

At a local scale, factors such as water source location are important in shaping elephant ranging behavior.

0810. Haile, A. K., & Seid, E. (2020). The psycho-social context of Lake Ziway/Dembel: Oromia Regional state, Ethiopia. International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 12(1), 18–28.

Local peoples’ awareness and perception of risk of ecological problems are associated with Lake Ziway/Dembel.

0811. Hizem, M.W., Riordan, P., El‐Farhati, H., Hamdi, L., & Nouira, S. (2019). Temporal patterns in natality and mortality of three threatened antelope species in North Africa: Oryx dammah, Addax nasomaculatus and Nanger dama. African Journal of Ecology, 57, 575–585.

Using autocorrelation analyses, we discovered endogenous natural cyclical fluctuations in the numbers of each species.

0812. Huskisson, S.M., Jacobson, S.L., Egelkamp, C.L., Ross, S.R., & Hopper, L.M. (2020). Using a touchscreen paradigm to evaluate food preferences and response to novel photographic stimuli of food in three primate species (Gorilla gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, and Macaca fuscata). International Journal of Primatology, 41, 5–23.

Preferences for a variety of stimuli could be tested quickly, efficiently, and accurately using touchscreens.

0813. Kaab, S.B., Rebey, I.B., Hanafi, M., Hammi, K.M., …, Ksouri, R. (2020). Screening of Tunisian plant extracts for herbicidal activity and formulation of a bioherbicide based on Cynara cardunculus. South African Journal of Botany, 128, 67–76.

C. cardunculus a suitable source of compounds potentially usable as natural herbicides.

0814. Kyle, K. & du Preez, L.H. (2020). Mom’s taxi – Maternal care in shovel-nosed frogs Hemisus marmoratus and Hemisus guttatus. African Zoology, 55, 1–5.

A sticky glue-like substance is used during inguinal amplexus of H. guttatus.

0815. Magagula, H.B. (2020). Military integrated environmental management programme of the South African National Defence Force. South African Geographical Journal, 102, 170–189.

The program considers environmental research, education, and awareness training; cultural resources management, and ecological management.

0816. Mahed, G., Gariremo, N., Lehlohonolo, S., Campbell, R., & Swartbooi, E. (2019). Characterisation of the Rietvlei wetland: Implications for spatial distribution of groundwater recharge. South African Journal of Geology, 122, 357–368.

There is a distinct relationship between elevation and soil structure. Shallow profiles were mainly dominated by medium to fine sands, silty sand, and clay.

0817. Manojj, D., Yasasve, M., Kanmani, K., & Ramesh, A.S. (2020). In vitro cytotoxicity study and anti-Brucella activity of Tarenna asiatica (L). South African Journal of Botany, 128, 54–61.

The ethanol extract of the plant possessed higher phenolics and flavonoids.

0818. Mbatyoti, A., Daneel, M.S., Swart, A., Marais, M., …, Fourie, H. (2019). Case study of effect of glyphosate application on plant-parasitic nematodes associated with a soybean–maize rotation system in South Africa. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 36, 389–392.

Five plant-parasitic nematode genera (Criconema, Helicotylenchus, Nanidorus, Pratylenchus and Tylenchorhynchus) were identified.

0819. Mbatyoti, A., Daneel, M.S., Swart, A., Marais, M., …, Fourie, H. (2020). Plant-parasitic nematode assemblages associated with glyphosate tolerant and conventional soybean cultivars in South Africa. African Zoology, 55, 93–107.

Glyphosate had no deleterious effects on plant-parasitic nematodes.

0820. Midzi, V., Pule, T., Manzunzu, B., Mulabisana, T., …, Myendeki, S. (2020). Improved earthquake location in the gold mining regions of South Africa using new velocity models. South African Journal of Geology, 123, 35–58.

Reliable local earthquake locations depend on many factors of which a major one is the velocity model.

0821. Midzi, V., Pule, T., Mulabisana, T., Zulu, B., & Manzunzu, B. (2020). Reassessment of source parameters of ‘major’ southern African earthquakes. South African Journal of Geology, 123, 59–74.

Moderate to large earthquakes within an earthquake catalogue contribute significantly to the seismic hazard and risk assessment results of any region.

0822. Molina-Vacas, G., Muñoz-Mas, R., Martínez-Capel, F., Rodriguez-Teijeiro, J., & Le Fohlic, G. (2020). Movement patterns of forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis Matschie, 1900) in the Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo. African Journal of Ecology, 58, 23–33.

Forest elephants moved faster along watercourses and through forest with understory dominated by Marantaceae forests and bais, but moved slower in savannas.

0823. Mthimkhulu, S.S., Miles, N., Titshall, L.W., & Dlamini, P. (2019). Effect of mound-building termites on soil physicochemical properties and sugarcane stalk heights. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 36, 385–388.

Increasing organic matter facilitated by activity of termites may improve the fertility of the ‘weak sands’ and thus increase the growth of sugarcane.

0824. Namirembe, S., Piikki, K., Sommer, R., Söderström, M., …, Nyawira, S.S. (2020). Soil organic carbon in agricultural systems of six countries in East Africa – a literature review of status and carbon sequestration potential. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 35–49.

Cropland soils are considered to have the potential to sequester atmospheric CO₂ through agronomic best management practices.

0825. Nkosi, B.D., Meeske, R., Muya, M.C., Langa, T., …, van Niekerk, J.A. (2019). Microbial additives affect silage quality and ruminal dry matter degradability of avocado (Persia Americana) pulp silage. South African Journal of Animal Science, 49, 997–1007.

Microbial inoculation qualifies the avocado pulp silage as a potential feed for ruminants.

0826. Noronha, M., Pawar, V., Prajapati, A., & Subramanian, R.B. (2020). A literature review on traditional herbal medicines for malaria. South African Journal of Botany, 128, 292–303.

We hope that plant derived drugs can prove to be the source of a novel lead compound to control malaria.

0827. Oginah, S.A., Ang’ienda, P.O., & Onyango, P.O. (2020). Evaluation of habitat use and ecological carrying capacity for the reintroduced Eastern black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) in Ruma National Park, Kenya. African Journal of Ecology, 58, 34–45.

None of the environmental and anthropogenic factors evaluated predicted habitat use by black rhinoceros in the park.

0828. Preston, E.F.R., Johnson, P.J., Macdonald, D.W., & Loveridge, A.J. (2019). Hunting success of lions affected by the moon's phase in a wooded habitat. African Journal of Ecology, 57, 586–594.

There was no evidence that lions used more covered habitats on brighter nights to facilitate concealment.

0829. Pretorius, H.C.F., Tredoux, M., Andreoli, M.A.G., & Vermeulen, P.D. (2020). A long term baseline and variability of natural radionuclides in groundwater at the Vaalputs low-level radioactive waste disposal facility, Namaqualand, South Africa: Regional implications. South African Journal of Geology, 123, 105–116.

Groundwater from boreholes and west side yielded low values for ²³⁴U/²³⁸U, lower pH and stronger oxidizing conditions than groundwater from the rest of the area.

0830. Quinn, L.P., Roos, C., Pieters, R., Polder, A., & Bouwman, H. (2020). Brominated flame retardants in wild bird eggs from the industrialised heartland of South Africa. African Zoology, 55, 43–56.

Brominated flame-retardant compositional patterns of the congeners in eggs differed among species, feeding guilds, and habitats.

0831. Raaijmakers, S. & Swanepoel, P.A. (2020). Vulnerability, institutional arrangements and the adaptation choices made by farmers in the Western Cape province of South Africa. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 51–59.

Climate change is predicted to increase both the frequency and intensity of droughts in parts of South Africa.

0832. Ribeiro, B.B., Mendes, A.N.G., Alex de Carvalho, M., Câmara, F.M. de M., & Lima, R.R. (2020). Sensory evaluation of coffee cultivars in the Campo das Vertentes Mesoregion, Minas Gerais. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 15(2), 179–186.

Cultivars Topázio, Bourbon Amarelo, Catucaí Amarelo, and Icatu Amarelo stood out with the highest averages for all sensory attributes.

0833. Sangiwa, M.W. & Magige, F.J. (2019). Effects of roads on small mammal diversity and abundance in the northern Serengeti, Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology, 57, 565–574.

Should the gravel road be improved, the control of anthropogenic activities in the area should be given high priority.

0834. Schoeman, A.L., Joubert, T.-L., du Preez, L.H., & Svitin, R. (2020). Xenopus laevis as UberXL for nematodes. African Zoology, 55, 7–24.

X. laevis is an important parasite reservoir in its native range, with implications for its role in the invasive range.

0835. Shahkolaie, S.S., Baranimotlagh, M., Dordipour, E., & Khormali, F. (2020). Effects of inorganic and organic amendments on physiological parameters and antioxidant enzymes activities in Zea mays L. from a cadmium-contaminated calcareous soil. South African Journal of Botany, 128, 132–140.

Zeolitse (5%) was the most effective amendment in decreasing cadmium concentration in maize.

0836. Smith, J.D.V., Strauss, J.A., & Hardie, A.G. (2020). Effects of long-term grazed crop and pasture systems under no-till on organic matter fractions and selected quality parameters of soil in the Overberg, South Africa. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 1–10.

We show the importance of the medic/clover pasture and wheat rotations in enhancing soil quality.

0837. South, J., Botha, T.L., Wolmarans, N.J., Wepener, V., & Weyl, O.L.F. (2020). Playing with food: Detection of prey injury cues stimulates increased functional foraging traits in Xenopus laevis. African Zoology, 55, 25-33.

Hydromechanical and visual cues alert X. laevis to prey items in different spatial zones, which results in foraging where the prey have aggregated.

0838. Taha, R.S., Alharby, H.F., Bamagoos, A.A., Medani, R.A., & Rady, M.M. (2020). Elevating tolerance of drought stress in Ocimum basilicum using pollen grains extract; a natural biostimulant by regulation of plant performance and antioxidant defense system. South African Journal of Botany, 128, 42-53.

Exposing basil plants to drought stress disorganized their performance including oil yield and anatomical features, but increased their antioxidant defense system.

0839. Thiede, R.N., Fabris-Rotelli, I.N. Stein, A., Debba, P., & Li, M. (2020). Uncertainty quantification for the extraction of informal roads from remote sensing images of South Africa. South African Geographical Journal, 102, 249–272.

We considered the existence of clear boundaries, the visibility of road edges, and road surface heterogeneity to define informal roads.

0840. Tiri, G. D., Mlay, G. I., & Roselyne, A. (2020). Productivity impact of growth enhancement support scheme on maize farm households in Kano State, Nigeria. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 15(1), 90-101.

Increasing maize production requires improvement in input use efficiency through integrated crop management practices.

0841. van Tol, J. (2020). Hydropedology in South Africa: Advances, applications and research opportunities. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 23-33.

I focus on recent advances in hydrological interpretation of soil morphology and chemistry.

0842. Villa-Rodriguez, J.A., Yahia, E.M., González-León, A., Ifie, I., …, González-Aguilar, G.A. (2020). Ripening of ‘Hass’ avocado mesocarp alters its phytochemical profile and the in vitro cytotoxic activity of its methanolic extracts. South African Journal of Botany, 128, 1-8.

Ripeness stage influences the concentration of specific compounds in each group of phytochemicals, as well as its in vitro cytotoxic activity.

0843. Watson, L.H., Cameron, M.J., & Iifo, F. (2020). Elephant herbivory of knob-thorn (Senegalia nigrescens) and ivory palm (Hyphaene petersiana) in Bwabwata National Park, Caprivi, Namibia: The role of ivory palm as a biotic refuge. African Journal of Ecology, 58, 14-22.

We implicate elephants and suggest that in palm clusters, subadult palms are more accessible to elephants than knob-thorns.

0844. Watts, D.P. (2020). Responses to dead and dying conspecifics and heterospecifics by wild mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). Primates, 61, 55-68.

Do any nonhuman primates learn from experience that death involves permanent loss of biological functionality and is universal?

0845. Woodroffe, R., Rabaiotti, D., Ngatia, D.K., Smallwood, T.R.C., …, O'Neill, H.M.K. (2020). Dispersal behaviour of African wild dogs in Kenya. African Journal of Ecology, 58, 46-57.

Models of wild dog population dynamics need to be updated to account for improved understanding of dispersal processes.

0846. Agbevade, A. (2020). The politics of actor involvement in local economic development in Ghana: Empirical evidence from the Accra Metropolitan, Keta Municipal and Shai-Osudoku District Assemblies. Journal of African Studies and Development, 12(2), 25-39.

Dynamics such as the land tenure system, micro and macro politics, administrative and institutional procedures, and political leadership were present.

0847. Alozie, B.C. (2019). “Female voices on ink”: The sexual politics of petitions in colonial Igboland, 1892–1960. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 10, 343-366.

I reframe the sexual politics of petitions and challenges dominant, institutionalized gender ideologies that have defined women as nearly powerless and passive.

0848. Banda, P.C. (2019). Decolonizing the BSAC in Nyasaland: Economic and Developmental Implications, 1944–1967. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 10, 323-341.

Most of the people were also disadvantaged by the land policies enacted by the post-colonial political elites.

0849. Beck, T., Hoseini, M., & Uras, B. (2020). Trade credit and access to finance: Evidence from Ethiopian retailers. Journal of African Economies, 29, 146–172.

Financial relationships with other firms act as a signal of creditworthiness for informal firms.

0850. Beinart, W., Mnwana, S., & Wotshela, L. (2020). Land reform, rural inequality and agrarian change: The case of Isidenge, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 102, 27-48.

Agricultural production has not been maintained and some landowners find it difficult to enforce their property rights.

0851. Bello, F.G. & Kamanga, G. (2020). Drivers and barriers of corporate social responsibility in the tourism industry: The case of Malawi. Development Southern Africa, 37, 181-196.

The major drivers of corporate social responsibility in the tourism industry are community expectations, management values, and natural and cultural resource management.

0852. Bertacchini, E. & Sultan, R. (2020). Valuing urban cultural heritage in African countries: A contingent valuation study of historic buildings in Port Louis, Mauritius. Journal of African Economies, 29, 192–213.

We discuss the challenge in assessing economic benefits to justify investments in cultural heritage preservation.

0853. Bigirwa, G., Kim, D., Acai, O., Na, C., …, Song, K. (2019). Genetic diversity and differentiation among Korean-Holstein, Hanwoo, and Uganda-Holstein breeds. South African Journal of Animal Science, 49, 1021 – 1027.

The allelic variation present at the 10 loci was sufficient to categorize these cattle into distinct breed groups.

0854. Bleaney, M., Morozumi, A., & Mumuni, Z. (2020). Inflation targeting and monetary policy in Ghana. Journal of African Economies, 29, 121–145.

Interest rates respond in the theoretically recommended way to inflation shocks.

0855. Bouzidi, Z., Faysse, N., Kuper, M., & Billaud, J.-P. (2020). Investigating the invisible roots of a prevailing narrative of farmers’ failed collective action in Morocco. The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 342-362.

We consider that the failure of past collective action is the farmers’ fault, irrespective of the unfavorable context and the legacy of the past.

0856. Bumatay, M. (2019). African bande dessinée festivals and competitions: Participation, patronage, and performance. Research in African Literatures, 50(2), 35-48.

I consider recent festivals to examine how such events and their byproducts reveal and challenge neocolonial trends and ideologies embedded in the global marketplace.

0857. Davenport, M. & Hassan, R.M. (2020). Social capital and self-organised collective action: Lessons and insights from a South African community project. Development Southern Africa, 37, 232-246.

Insights from the study also indicate that successful collective action relies on processes of long-term and earnest trust building.

0858. Derbyshire, S.F., Moore, H.L., Cheptoo, H., & Davies, M.I.J. (2020). ‘Sufurias cannot bring blessings’: Change, continuity and resilience in the world of Marakwet pottery, a case from western Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 204-226.

We demonstrate the ways in which change has been dynamically negotiated and enacted throughout the last century via various shifting daily practices.

0859. Dickinson, D. (2020). A contested commons: Competition for public land in the Free State. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 149-164.

Some parts of the commonage have, for complex reasons, remained fenced and are therefore assets available for individual farming.

0860. Dobbin, J. & Lloyd, H. (2020). Development finance as an emerging discipline: Perspectives from the South African context. Development Southern Africa, 37, 162-177.

What counts as development finance knowledge and who has authority to define and produce it?

0861. Durham, D. (2020). Morality in the middle: Choosing cars or houses in Botswana. Africa, 90, 489-508.

Batswana contrast owning cars with owning houses: the first signals self-centered accomplishment and possibly deceptive status claims, and the second an investment in sociality.

0862. Duru, A.A. (2019). Effects of lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) augmentation of alfalfa silages. South African Journal of Animal Science, 49, 1008 – 1012.

No significant differences in crude protein, ash, ether extract, lactic acid, acetic acid, propionic acid, and lactic acid bacteria number were detected.

0863. Dyason, D. (2020). University population expenditure and its impact on real estate demand: Evidence from South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 37, 197-216.

This close relationship between university enrollments and activity in the real estate market could be constrained if spending is under pressure.

0864. el Nabolsy, Z. (2020). Amílcar Cabral’s modernist philosophy of culture and cultural liberation. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32, 231-250.

Cabral conceived of the anti-colonial struggle in the realm of culture as a struggle against the latter rather than the former.

0865. Gastrow, C. (2020). Housing middle-classness: Formality and the making of distinction in Luanda. Africa, 90, 509-528.

Luanda's residents increasingly believed that access to formal housing, not necessarily always legal but aesthetically defined.

0866. Grobler, S.M., Scholtz, M.M., Neser, F.W.C., Greyling, J.P.C., & Morey, L. (2019). Effect of controlled breeding on performance of beef cattle in Central Bushveld bioregion. South African Journal of Animal Science, 49, 1013 – 1020.

Calving rate did not differ significantly between cows that were synchronized and non-synchronized.

0867. Gukurume, S. & Nhodo, L. (2020). Forced displacements in mining communities: Politics in Chiadzwa diamond area, Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 39-54.

Displacements exacerbated people's vulnerability to livelihood shocks, insecurity, and poverty.

0868. Hobson, M.S. (2019). EAMENA training in the use of satellite remote sensing and digital technologies in heritage management: Libya and Tunisia workshops 2017–2019. Libyan Studies, 50, 63-71

The focus was on the use satellite imagery for archaeological site identification and monitoring and on compiling and maintaining spatial databases using GIS.

0869. Ibrahim, F.M. (2020). Rethinking the African value of high fertility: The Yorùbá farmers’ example. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, 8(1), 11–34.

In the current social climate, traditional culture is altered, manipulated or reconstructed to suit changing realities.

0870. Jephias, M. & Machiya, F. (2020). Using the sustainable livelihood approach to explore determinants of off-farm diversification by land reform beneficiaries in Sanyati District-Mashonaland West Province-Zimbabwe. Journal of African Studies and Development, 12(2), 40-51.

The government should have credit facilities to support farmers for the enduring success of the land reform program.

0871. Kalinga, O.J.M. (2020). ‘The General from Fort Hill’: Katoba Flax Musopole’s Role as an anti-colonial activist and politician in Malawi. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 301-317.

Musopole’s career in post-colonial Malawi also shows how some independent-minded people fared in the evolving single-party system.

0872. Kenrick, P. (2019). Supporting cultural tourism in Libya – a brief history. Libyan Studies, 50, 51-57.

Tourists come to Libya for two reasons: to admire the antiquities and/or to experience the natural wonders of the desert.

0873. Khambule, I. (2020). A question of capacity and funding: The role of local economic development agencies in South Africa’s development landscape. Urban Forum, 31, 95-113.

Local economic development agencies remain dependent on parent municipalities as they fail to source development finance outside government structures.

0874. Lockwood, P. (2020). Impatient accumulation, immediate consumption: Problems with money and hope in central Kenya. Social Analysis, 64(1), 44–62.

Rendered hopeless, young men turn to crime as an alternative means of realizing their desires for consumption in the short term.

0875. Lu, N.T.C. (2019). Between tradition and modernity: Practical resistance and reform of culture in Flora Nwapa's Efuru. Research in African Literatures, 50(2), 123-141.

Efuru's spontaneous resistance to social pressures is indicative of an ongoing cultural change.

0876. Lwoga, N.B. & Mwitondi, M.S. (2018). Challenges facing the conservation of historic buildings through local eyes: The Swahili town of Kilwa Kivinje, Tanzania. Heritage & Society, 11, 249-275.

There is weak enforcement of antiquities legislation, limited assistance from the antiquities’ agencies and the people are not involved in the decision-making process.

0877. Marcatelli, M. (2020). Medupi power station and the water-energy nexus in South Africa. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 102, 1–26.

Water allocation privileging production over social reproduction leaves the basic needs of the poor unmet, under the (false) assumption that economic growth will translate into better water access for all.

0878. Mazwi, F., Chambati, W., & Mudimu, G.T. (2020). Tobacco contract farming in Zimbabwe: Power dynamics, accumulation trajectories, land use patterns and livelihoods. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 55–71.

Some farmers withdrew from the contracts due to low output prices and high input costs resulting in indebtedness.

0879. McGuirk, B., Theron, P. & Maboeta, M. (2020). The effects of different gold mine tailings on growth, reproduction and avoidance-behaviour of earthworms. African Zoology, 55, 35–42.

Earthworms exposed to the tailing disposal facilities showed significantly lower biomass, allied with a very low cocoon production.

0880. Menestrey Schwieger, D.A. (2019). Negotiating water on unequal terms: Cattle loans, dependencies and power in communal water management in northwest Namibia. Nomadic Peoples, 23, 241–260.

While cattle loans provide livelihood security for poor Himba herders, they also limit their bargaining power for water.

0881. Mezgebo, T.G. & Porter, C. (2020). From rural to urban, but not through migration: Household livelihood responses to urban reclassification in northern Ethiopia. Journal of African Economies, 29, 173–191.

Combining farming with skilled nonfarm employment is the most common strategy for better-off households under both rural and urban administrations.

0882. Mokotjomela, T.M. & Nombewu, N. (2020). Potential benefits associated with implementation of the national biodiversity economy strategy in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. South African Geographical Journal, 102, 190–208.

Critical factors that influence the success of the Biodiversity Economy Strategy include poverty, limited land ownership, and game farming skillsets.

0883. Mote, B.E., Serenius, T.V., Supakorn, C., & Stalder, J.K. (2019). Genetic improvement of sow longevity and its economic impact on commercial pork production. South African Journal of Animal Science, 49, 1036–1046.

Sow longevity seems to be the ideal trait to utilize genomic selection when attempting to improve the trait.

0884. Musonda, J. (2020). Undermining gender: Women mineworkers at the rock face in a Zambian underground mine. Anthropology Southern Africa, 43, 32–42.

Women’s increased access to resources and important positions in mining has contributed to changing gender inequalities.

0885. Ndlovu, T. (2020). Shuttling between the suburbs and the township: The new black middle class(es) negotiating class and post-apartheid blackness in South Africa. Africa, 90, 568–586.

There metaphors of mobility and the vexed intersection of black middle-classness, consumption, racialized residential zoning, and compromised status.

0886. Nel, A. (2020). Conciliatory whiteness: White farmers’ accommodations and responses to land reform in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 72–88.

I explore differentiated responses to land reform on the part of some white farmers.

0887. Němečková, T., Harmáček, J., & Schlossarek, M. (2020). Measuring the middle class in Africa – Income versus assets approach. Africa Spectrum, 54, 3–32.

The African assets middle class size is positively associated with income per capita and negatively with assets inequality.

0888. Nhemachena, A., Hlabangane, N., & Kaundjua, M.B. (2020). Relationality or hospitality in twenty-first century research? Big data, internet of things, and the resilience of coloniality on Africa. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, 8(1), 105–139.

The Internet of Things and Big Data threaten the autonomy, privacy, data, and national sovereignty of indigenous Africans.

0889. Nkhoma, B.G. (2020). ‘The native is the producer of the future’: Improving peasants’ food production in southern Malawi, 1859–1939. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 283–299.

Negative attitudes towards African producers undermined the legitimacy and acceptability of the interventions among the peasants.

0890. Patel, L., Khan, Z., & Englert, T. (2020). How might a national minimum wage affect the employment of youth in South Africa? Development Southern Africa, 37, 147–161.

National minimum wages could benefit youth engaged in formal employment and stimulate job-seeking.

0891. Pertaub, D.-P. & Stevenson, E.G.J. (2019). Pipe dreams: Water, development and the work of the imagination in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley. Nomadic Peoples, 23, 177–194.

Water development schemes function as technologies, stimulating people to imagine different kinds of futures.

0892. Qamar, Z.A., Rashid, M.A., Pasha, T.N., Malik, M.I., …, Yousaf, M.S. (2019). Carryover effects of varying hay concentration on the transition to silage-based feeding of weaned dairy calves. South African Journal of Animal Science, 49, 1028–1035.

Daily dry matter intake, average daily gain, change in body condition score and structural measurements were not affected by dietary treatments.

0893. Rossatti, J.A., Vargas Jr, F.M., Retore, M., Britez, G.D.V., …, Mele, M. (2019). Effects of pasture type and level of concentrate supplementation on quality and fatty acid profile of lamb meat. South African Journal of Animal Science, 49, 984–996.

Lambs that were finished on grass without supplementation had a more healthful fatty acid profile and received better scores for flavor and global appreciation.

0894. Scholvin, S. (2020). The diversity of gateways: Accra, Cape Town and Mauritius as hinges in oil and gas GPNs. Urban Forum, 31, 61–76.

Corporate control of Ghana’s upstream sector concentrates in Accra, whereas logistics and upstream service provision happen in close proximity to oil and gas fields.

0895. Smit, I.P.J. & Bond, W.J. (2020). Observations on the natural history of a savanna drought. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 37, 119–136.

We reflect on lessons learned from previous droughts leading to changed management approaches making the system more resilient during the recent drought.

0896. Smith, T. & Fitchett, J.M. (2020). Drought challenges for nature tourism in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve in the eastern region of South Africa. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 37, 107–117.

The impacts of the dry period on nature tourism within the study area are explored.

0897. Southall, R. (2020). Flight and fortitude: The decline of the middle class in Zimbabwe. Africa, 90, 529–547.

In the face of Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front authoritarianism and economic hardship, the middle class has largely withdrawn from the political arena.

0898. Spronk, R. (2020). Structures, feelings and savoir faire: Ghana's middle classes in the making. Africa, 90, 470–488.

The availability of advantageous conditions is not enough to stimulate change; one needs the savoir faire to enact them.

0899. Steenkamp, A., Pieterse, D., & Rycroft, J. (2020). Leveraging agriculture for growth: Lessons from innovative joint ventures and international best practice. Development Southern Africa, 37, 130–146.

Growing agriculture can reduce poverty, create economic opportunities in rural and peri-urban areas, and boost employment.

0900. Tiki, W. & Oba, G. (2019). Transforming labour and technology of the ancient Tula wells for watering livestock in Borana, Ethiopia. Nomadic Peoples, 23, 218–240.

Payments for well rehabilitation have changed from cattle to cash, while technological transformations include using plastic buckets.

0901. Tunzi, Z. & Simo-Kengne, B.D. (2020). Estimating the future health care cost of population aging in South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 37, 259–275.

We find that public health expenditure could roughly double in the next fifteen years.

0902. Umezurike, U.P. (2020). Self-publishing in the era of military rule in Nigeria, 1985–1999. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32, 212–230.

Self-publishing subverts the traditional model of book production by creating a viable alternative through which literary writers could be published.

0903. Xaba, M.B. (2020). South African land restitution and development: The capabilities approach to an understanding of the Macleantown and Salem restitution projects in the Eastern Cape. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 102, 49–72.

The capabilities and the agency of beneficiaries remain constrained in that restitution has not provided any hopes to reduce poverty and recreate the 'good' past as beneficiaries expect.

0904. Andreas, C. (2019). Preventative inoculation of cattle against lungsickness in the Cape: Informal technology transfer and local knowledge production in the nineteenth century. South African Historical Journal, 71, 536–559.

Lungsickness inoculation thus demonstrates the potential benefits of pharmaceutical experimentation in a diversity of therapeutic systems unrestricted by hegemonic scientific doctrine.

0905. Aniche, E.T. (2020). From Pan-Africanism to African regionalism: A chronicle. African Studies, 79, 70–7.

I examine the historical evolution of pan-Africanism and regionalism in Africa from colonial to post-colonial era to trace the interface between them.

0906. Beinart, W. & Beinart, R. (2019). ‘From elephant’s foot … to cortisone’: Boots Pure Drug Company and Dioscorea Sylvatica in South Africa, c. 1950–1963. South African Historical Journal, 71, 644–675.

We explore issues of bioprospecting: the scientific exploitation of plant properties and whether this was a case of direct appropriation of local or indigenous knowledge.

0907. Cassanelli, L. (2019). Crises and continuities in Somalia’s Longue Duree. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 52, 449–466.

The notion of Somalia as a “nation in search of a state” has nowadays become, it appears, a nation in search of many (sub-national) states.

0908. Chattopadhyaya, U. (2019). Dagga and prohibition: Markets, animals, and the imperial contexts of knowledge, 1893–1925. South African Historical Journal, 71, 587–613.

I discuss the historical conjuncture before the Geneva Convention to highlight how state bodies in an imperial context sanctioned experiments to validate, not prohibit, cannabis products.

0909. Cummiskey, J. (2020). Early AIDS research in Rakai: Ugandan experiences and expertise in the creation of the African AIDS paradigm. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 1–26.

Some physicians and scientists emphasized the coinciding political and epidemiological crises, which led them to take a highly pragmatic and results-oriented approach to AIDS research.

0910. Garang, K.ë. (2019). Political ideology and organisational espousal: A political-historical analysis of Dr. John Garang De Mabior’s “New Sudan Vision.” Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, 7(2), 89–122.

The New Sudan Vision was not really a Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and Army political ideology but John Garang’s ideology.

0911. Gennaro, M. (2019). “Ban this cruel sport boxing”: Shaping the ideal masculine citizen in post-WWII Colonial Lagos, Nigeria. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 52, 375–398.

At a boxing promotion in 1953, lightweight boxer Dapo“Homicide” Ilori was knocked out by his opponent Eddie Phillips in the 4^th round of an eight-round fight and then died.

0912. Getahun, S.A. (2019). Italy’s Ethiopian mercenaries, the forgotten Terenebulé. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 52, 425–448.

Italy’s drive to acquire colonial territories was not necessitated, as classical Marxists argue, by the need for raw materials, cheap labor, markets for products, and surplus capital.

0913. Glaser, C. (2020). Beyond the legacy of 1976: Morris Isaacson High School, popular memory and the struggle for education in central Soweto. African Studies, 79, 21–36.

Astute leadership and committed alumni have managed to leverage the school’s political fame to attract state and private sponsorship.

0914. Hodes, R. (2019). ‘Pharmatrash’ in South Africa: A contemporary history of democracy’s detritus. South African Historical Journal, 71, 676–703.

I examine what happens to pharmaceutical products after they have been provided, purchased, consumed and discarded.

0915. Houser, M.A. (2020). Legal representation in lacuna: The Namibian Legal Resources Centre, Southern Africa Project, and the trial of the Cassinga detainees. African Studies, 79, 37–50.

The Cassinga case is representative of many that kept open dialogue between the South African state, liberation movements and the international community.

0916. Hughes, L. & Rogei, D. (2020). Feeling the heat: Responses to geothermal development in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 165–184.

In this study we considered historical continuities, land injustices, and global struggles for indigenous and marginalized peoples’ rights.

0917. Jacoby, B. (2020). A visit to the Cascades Female Factory in Tasmania: Places of terrible suffering and inhumane treatment. The Digging Stick, 37(1), 13–16.

The philosophy behind the prisons was that by making the convict women work. it would get them into a way of life that involved cleanliness, quietness, regularity and industry.

0918. Jaja, J.M., Agumagu, J., & Adagogo-Brown, E. (2019). Historical consciousness and Nigerian political stability. AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 8(4), 115–127.

The strategic role of history in facilitating development makes historical societies incubators of development.

0919. Moyo, C. (2020). Party foot-soldiers, quasi-militias, vigilantes, and the spectre of violence in Zimbabwe’s opposition politics. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, 8(1), 65–103.

I explore the scourge of intra-party violence in the opposition party MDC between 2005 and 2019.

0920. Okia, O. (2020). Emergency communal labor and gender in Central Province during the Mau Mau War in Kenya, 1953–1960. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 10, 25-50.

Faced with the Mau Mau rebellion, the administration transformed the preexisting communal labor system and used it on an unprecedented scale as collective punishment.

0921. Parle, J. (2019). Obliv[i]on C: Sedatives, schedules, and the stresses of ‘modern times’: South African pharmaceutical politics, 1930s to 1960s. South African Historical Journal, 71, 614-643.

Many local pharmacists, manufacturers, importers, and consumers were quick to embrace the therapeutic aspirations and chemical technologies of the time.

0922. Prichard, A.C. (2019). East African slave trade exhibit, Christ Church Anglican Cathedral, Zanzibar, Tanzania. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 52, 467-472.

Christ Church Cathedral stands as a monument to the Anglican church’s role in the abolition of the East African slave trade.

0923. Sanders, E.R. (2019). James Aggrey and the African nation: Pan-africanism, public memory, and political imagination in colonial East Africa. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 52, 399-424.

From the beginning Western audiences were interested in Aggrey as a promoter of positive race relations.

0924. Sinclair-Thomson, B. (2020). Troubled times: The history and rock art of bandit groups in the Winterberg. The Digging Stick, 37(1), 5-9.

European colonists first began to settle in the area around the Winterberg and were attacked by groups often described as banditti.

0925. Spiegel, A.D. (2020). Ethnographic evidence versus theoretical models: Reminiscences and reflections on a linear proletarianisation model for Southern Africa. Anthropology Southern Africa, 43, 1-14.

Capitalism continually produces a linear but bifurcating process that alienates working-struggling people from the means of production and social reproduction.

0926. Sun, J.Y. (2019). Historicizing African socialisms: Kenyan African socialism, Zambian humanism, and Communist China’s entanglements. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 52, 349-374.

I construct a historiography of African socialisms through a triangulated analysis of the influences of the global Cold War, the political culture of individual African states, and their bilateral relations with Communist countries.

0927. Waetjen, T. (2019). Global opium politics in Mozambique and South Africa, c 1880–1930. South African Historical Journal, 71, 560-586.

The reach of European empires and of Indian Ocean trade networks drew southern Africa into the global politics of opium.

0928. Chikoko, W., Muzvidziwa, V.N., Ruparanganda, W., & Chikoko, E. (2019). Early sexual debut and substance abuse among street children of Harare Central Business District, Zimbabwe. African Journal of Social Work, 9(1), 79-87.

Full implementation of child rights laws, policies, and programs are needed to reduce risks associated with early sexual debut and substance abuse.

0929. Cooper, A., Mokomane, Z., & Fadiji, A.W. (2020). The relationship between social welfare policy and multidimensional well-being: An analysis using the South African Child Support Grant. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 102, 73-94.

Democratic developmental states try to find their way in a global market, redistribute wealth, and satisfy different constituencies.

0930. Desta, C.G. (2020). Resources, time and gender: Determinants of women’s housework in Bahir Dar and nearby rural villages, northwest Ethiopia. Journal of Family Issues, 41, 507–541.

Traditional gender perception/practice has the expected positive association with a woman’s housework time.

0931. Jansen, N. & Agadjanian, V. (2020). Polygyny and intimate partner violence in Mozambique. Journal of Family Issues, 41, 338–358.

Senior wives living away from their cowives face particularly high risks of domestic violence.

0932. Mekonnen, Y., Kassa, K., & Ayalew, M. (2019). Prevalence, causes and consequences of divorce in Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia. African Journal of Social Work, 9(1), 73-78.

Community based organizations are expected to give pre-marriage counseling and training for couples on child care responsibilities and conflict management skills.

0933. Okafor, C.O., Njemanze, V.C., & Onyeneje, E.C. (2020). Roles of perceived locus of causality, social distance and gender on willingness to volunteer in Nigeria local community. AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 9, 9-20.

Kinship and familiarity are significant predictors of willingness to provide help for victims of disaster.

0934. Ruark, A., Green, E.C., Nunn, A., Kennedy, C., …, Surkan, P.J. (2019). Navigating intimate sexual partnerships in an era of HIV: dimensions of couple relationship quality and satisfaction among adults in Eswatini and linkages to HIV risk. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 16, 10-24.

Love, respect, honesty, trust, communication, sexual satisfaction, and sexual faithfulness emerged as the characteristics of good relationships.

0935. Segami, V.B. & Van Eeden, C. (2020). Marital symbols and the marriage satisfaction and spiritual well-being of BaTswana married women. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 37-43.

Marital symbols and the wedding ring were precursors for personal, communal, and transcendental marital satisfaction.

0936. Sunmola, A.M., Mayungbo, O.A., Ashefor, G.A., & Morakinyo, L.A. (2020). Does relation between women’s justification of wife beating and intimate partner violence differ in context of husband’s controlling attitudes in Nigeria? Journal of Family Issues, 41, 85–108.

Women who justified wife beating experienced more physical, sexual, and emotional violence.

0937. Ahland, M. (2019). The development of subject case marking in Omotic Mao. Studies in African Linguistics, 48, 186-204.

The pathway toward subject case marking appears to have begun with the demonstrative construction becoming associated with topical referents in discourse.

0938. Andrason, A. & Karani, M. (2019). Dative applicative elements in Arusa (Maa): A canonical approach to the argument-adjunct distinction. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 58, 177-204.

Dative applicative elements behave as canonical arguments and are located close to the argumenthood pole of the argument-adjunct continuum.

0939. Andrason, A. & Matutu, H. (2019). The syntax of interjections in isiXhosa: A corpus-driven study. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 58, 1-16.

The category of interjections is internally complex and diversified, containing members with varying degrees of canonicity and extra-systematicity.

0940. Asiimwe, A. (2019). The syntax of relative clause constructions in Runyankore-Rukiga: A typological perspective. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 58, 131-154.

I describe the properties and use of the object relative marker as it has previously been regarded as a demonstrative or a pronoun.

0941. Babane, M.T. & Maluleke, M.J. (2020). The role of multilingualism in an academic milieu at a selected South African university. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 47-52.

English is the dominant language used by students in academic discourse, African languages are also used.

0942. Catling, A. & Mous, M. (2019). Using a discourse adverb to correct expectations an analysis of mak in Iraqw an analysis of mak in Iraqw. Studies in African Linguistics, 48, 329-355.

Our analysis includes a comparison to five verbal adverbs that mak was initially grouped with (tsuwa, tó, lák, ák and alge) and provides further insight into the functions of verbal adverbs.

0943. Chebanne, A. & Dlali, M. (2020). Cua language of Botswana: Resilience or a longer road to language loss? South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 68–75.

The language and cultural policies of Botswana are the main forces behind the ethnic and linguistic demise of Cua.

0944. Faloju, Y.O. & Fadairo, O.Y. (2020). Name as a designate of culture in traditional and contemporary Yorùbá society of Nigeria. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 40–46.

We assess the sociocultural functions and cultural implications of names in traditional and contemporary Yorùbá society.

0945. Gumbo, L. & Mutasa, D.E. (2020). The inevitability of linguistic change: The motivation of borrowing English terms by Shona speakers. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 53–59.

Shona speakers seem to prefer English loanwords owing to issues such as prestige and elitism, shortness and precision, explicitness, and expressiveness.

0946. Haacke, W.H.G. & Snyman, J.W. (2019). Lexical proximity of a Xri corpus to Khoekhoegowab. Studies in African Linguistics, 48, 267–328.

Whether Xri had a three-tone system like! Ora or a four-tone system like Khoekhoegowab cannot be investigated reliably because of the absence of tonal data for Xri.

0947. Hlungwani, M.C. (2019). Anticausatives with passives of subordinate intransitive clauses in Xitsonga. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 58, 65–87.

Xitsonga passives of the subordinate intransitive clause may be modified by prepositional phrases denoting agents, instruments, and causers.

0948. Hout, K. (2019). Dominance-as-markedness evidence from Bari. Studies in African Linguistics, 48, 206–224.

Four of these processes are analyzable without reference to the recessive value of advanced tongue root, supporting the characterization of dominance as markedness, and markedness as specification.

0949. Kawalya, D., de Schryver, G.-M., & Bostoen, K. (2019). A corpus-driven study of the expression of necessity in Luganda (Bantu, JE15). Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 37, 361-381.

The auxiliary -lina is less semantically diversified, expressing only participant-imposed, situational and deontic necessity, while the verbal prefix -andi- expresses only deontic necessity.

0950. Koai, M. & Fredericks, B.G. (2019). Sesotho is still a marginalised language. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 37, 303–314.

Despite efforts to reduce the gap between official languages (e.g., English and Afrikaans) and marginalized ones, there is no real progress in this regard.

0951. Kwokwo, O.M., & Angaye, T.E. (2020). Orality, performance and creativity: A descriptive perspective of the Izon Obobo bi necromancy. Journal of Languages and Culture, 11(1), 1-6.

We focus on the orality, performative style and creativity in the spoken word as a sub-genre of African poetry.

0952. Landa, N., Zhou, S., & Tshotsho, B. (2019). Interrogating the role of language in clergy sexual abuse of women and girls in Zimbabwe. Journal for the Study of Religion, 32(2), A5.

The vulnerability of women and girls and their trust in the clergy expose them to exploitation, manipulation, and sexual abuse by the same religious leaders.

0953. Lora-Kayambazinthu, E.E. (2019). Elhomwe revitalization efforts: Myth or reality? Anthropological Linguistics, 61, 12-43.

Although the Lomwe express enthusiasm over Lomwe political and ethnic resurgence and positive attitudes towards the language, revitalization has been minimally successful.

0954. Madolo, Y. (2019). Translating children’s biographies: A translator’s self-critique. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 37, 279–288.

Although the translation may be rated as fair, it has some notable errors that might diminish its quality.

0955. Makoni, B. (2020). Metalinguistic discourses on translanguaging and multimodality: Acts of passing by black African immigrants in Johannesburg. Language, Culture and Society, 2, 65–90.

Black African immigrants use passing as a social identity management strategy, to negotiate their putative identity and resist ascription of the foreigner-outsider categorization.

0956. Mallya, A. (2019). The lexical semantics and syntax interface of anticausative alternations in Kiwoso. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 58, 107–129.

Anticausative, passive and middle verb constructions are related in that their sole subject argument is the object argument of their causative (transitive) variants.

0957. Mallya, A. & Visser, M. (2019). Passive and anticausative constructions: A new perspective to morphosyntax and lexical semantic interfaces. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 37, 315-324.

The passive and anticausative in Kiwoso are distinguished on the basis of a Voice functional head.

0958. Mamvura, Z. (2020). ‘Let us make Zimbabwe in my own name’: Place naming and Mugabeism in Zimbabwe. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 32-39.

I deploy the three facets of scale, as they relate to the components of the built environment, namely size, level, and relation.

0959. Manu-Barfo, E.D. (2019). On the status of Dompo, a critically endangered language in Ghana. Anthropological Linguistics, 61, 94-102.

There are only about six fluent speakers of Dompo, between the ages of forty-eight and ninety-six.

0960. Maseko, B. & Mutasa, D.E. (2019). ‘Only Tonga spoken here!’: Family language management among the Tonga in Zimbabwe. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 37, 289-302.

Tonga parents have high impact beliefs regarding their potential to control their children’s linguistic behavior in the home.

0961. Mkochi, W. (2019). Encoding the plural-honorific suffix -ani and the imperfective anga in Malawian CiTonga (N.15). Studies in African Linguistics, 48, 356-369.

Although these formatives can be encoded at these positions, they are shown to be functionally different from extensions, inflectional vowel suffixes, and clitics.

0962. Mletshe, L. (2019). The path to verbal bodily diagnostics in isiXhosa. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 58, 17-31.

I analyzed the deverbal nominals using de-compositional lexical semantics.

0963. Mojapelo, M.L. (2019). The associative copulative and expression of bodily discomfort in Northern Sotho. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 58, 89-106.

Alternative available verbs are employed to express the same concept in specific ways.

0964. Monaka, K.C. & Chebanne, A.M. (2019). Setswana and the building of a nation state. Anthropological Linguistics, 61, 75-93.

The Constitution of Botswana recognizes a homogeneous Tswana state thus marginalizing twenty-five or more non-Tswana groups.

0965. Mose, P. (2020). Debunking the myth of lack of vocabulary for teaching content knowledge in primary schools: Exploring terminology for science in Ekegusii of Kenya. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 60-67.

Ekegusii can be used effectively as a language of instruction for grades one to three.

0966. Mössmer, M. (2019). The rise and fall of Xri: The history of a completed language shift in the northern Cape, South Africa. Anthropological Linguistics, 61, 44-74.

Linguistic pressure from Cape Dutch and political pressure from the colonial government contributed to eventual decline of Xri and a shift to an Afrikaans variety.

0967. Mpofu, P. & Salawu, A. (2020). African language use in the digital public sphere: Functionality of the localised Google webpage in Zimbabwe. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 76-84.

What is the practicality of the localized Google webpage which is also available in ChiShona, IsiNdebele, Chichewa, and Setswana.

0968. Mpofu, P., Mutasa, D.E., & Salawu, A. (2019). Multilingual broadcasting in post-2000 Zimbabwe: Design, implementation and language parity. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 37, 267-278.

Our study is grounded in the concepts of linguistic hegemony, political economy of communication and media economics.

0969. Nakijoba, S. (2019). Manifestation of kubanga causal connectives in English-Luganda bilingual discourse. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 58, 155-175.

Kubanga forms operate in four domains (content, epistemic, speech act and metalinguistic), and they are domain specific.

0970. Ndlela, P. (2020). ‘Firing with the pen’: Centring the intellectual legacy of Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 26-31.

Her home in rural Transkei surfaced as a ‘site of resistance’ that ignited and nurtured her political and moral consciousness.

0971. Seema, J. (2020). The contact and clash of the Basotho and Western cultures in Mafata’s novel Mehaladitwe ha e eketheha. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 19-25.

Mafata encourages the promotion of the Basotho culture and a move for the Basotho to reaffirm their identity.

0972. Taraldsen, K.T. (2019). On augment-less NPs in Xhosa and de NPs in French. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 58, 33-63.

We account for the observed similarities between augment-less noun phrases (NPs) and French de NPs.

0973. Treis, Y. & Doyiso, D.W. (2019). "Issues and maize bread taste good when they're cool" Temperature terms and their metaphorical extensions in Kambaata (Cushitic). Studies in African Linguistics, 48, 225-265.

Kambaata conceptualizes inactivity, ineptness and fear as tactile cold but the absence of emotional and physical pain as non-tactile cold.

0974. Van de Velde, M.L.O. (2020). Concernee-Concern constructions: A comparative study of external possession in the Bantu languages. Studies in Language, 44, 70–94.

Situations can be expressed by means of Concernee-Concern construction if they correspond to the prototypical situation that involves somebody’s body part being affected by an action.

0975. Ajayi, I.A, Omotoye, O.J., & Ajite, K.O. (2020). Pattern of corneal disorders in Ekiti: A tertiary eye center experience. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 119-123.

Corneal foreign body, trauma, and vernal keratoconjunctivitis were the leading known predisposing factors.

0976. Akande-Sholabi, W., Agha, P.C., Olowookere, O.O., & Adebusoye, L.A. (2020). Evaluation of prescription pattern of analgesic use among ambulatory elderly in South-Western Nigeria. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 131-136.

Inappropriate prescribing of analgesics has a global impact on the health of elderly patients and the society.

0977. Alemayehu, T., Ayalew, S., Buzayehu, T., & Daka, D. (2020). Magnitude of Cryptococcosis among HIV patients in sub-Saharan Africa countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. African Health Sciences, 20, 114-121.

Cryptococcus is encapsulated opportunistic yeast that causes life threatening meningoencephalitis of patients with HIV.

0978. Amdouni, J., Monaco, F., Portanti, O., Sghaier, S., & Hammami, S. (2020). Detection of enzootic circulation of a new strain of West Nile virus lineage 1 in sentinel chickens in the north of Tunisia. Acta Tropica, 202, 105223.

We highlight the use of poultry as a surveillance tool to detect West Nile virus transmission in a peri-domestic area.

0979. Baya, B., Diarra, B., Diabate, S., Kone, B., …, Maiga, M. (2020). Association of Mycobacterium africanum infection with slower disease progression compared with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Malian patients with tuberculosis. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 102, 36–41.

Host tolerance, which may result in a longer time period between the onset of cough symptoms and diagnosis, may also play a role.

0980. Biruk, C. (2020). The invention of ‘harmful cultural practices’ in the era of AIDS in Malawi. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 339-356.

The ‘harmful cultural practices’ narrative finds resonance in postcolonial contexts within a global health–human rights nexus.

0981. Bookholane, H., Michaelides, A., Prins, L., Steenkamp, L., …, Thomson, D. (2020). Factors influencing consent rates of deceased organ donation in Western Cape Province, South Africa. The South African Medical Journal, 110(3), 204–209.

Consent discussions (and public awareness initiatives) need to be sensitive to and deal with religious and cultural reservations about organ donation.

0982. Boukobza, M., Lariven, S., Houzé, S., & Laissy, J.-P. (2020). Unusual MRI findings in African Trypanosoma brucei gambiense Trypanosomiasis: Dentate nuclei and hypothalamic lesions. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 102, 5–6.

Patient had cervical and axillary lymphadenopathy and wide-based gait.

0983. Brydon, H., Blignaut, R., & Jacobs, J. (2019). A weighted bootstrap approach to logistic regression modelling in identifying risk behaviours associated with sexual activity. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 16, 62-69.

The Newton–Raphson and Fisher methods are unreliable. The forward, backward and stepwise variable selection methods are shown to produce similar results.

0984. Byonanebye, D.M., Semitala, F.C., Katende, J., Bakenga, A., …, Kamya, M.R. (2020). High viral suppression and low attrition in healthy HIV-infected patients initiated on ART with CD4 above 500 cells/μL in a program setting in Uganda. African Health Sciences, 20, 132-141.

Asymptomatic patients initiated on antiretroviral therapy with high baseline CD4 counts, achieve high viral suppression with low risk of attrition.

0985. Chai, J.Y. & Bong-Kwang, J. (2020). Foodborne intestinal flukes: A brief review of epidemiology and geographical distribution. Acta Tropica, 201, 105210.

Foodborne intestinal flukes are highly diverse consisting of at least 74 species with a diverse global distribution.

0986. De Neve, J.-W., Karlsson, O., Canavan, C.R., Chukwu, A., …, Berhane, Y. (2020). Are out‐of‐school adolescents at higher risk of adverse health outcomes? Evidence from 9 diverse settings in sub‐Saharan Africa. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 25, 70-80.

School enrollment is strongly associated with sexual and reproductive health and healthcare utilization outcomes.

0987. Diarra, I., Nurtop, E., Sangaré, A., Sagara, I., …, Doumbo, O.K. (2020). Zika virus circulation in Mali. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 26(5), 945-952.

In tropical savannah sites, we estimated a low rate of endemic transmission of population infected by Zika virus annually.

0988. Dimene, L., Fadzai, M., Chifamba, J., Nyakatawa, G., …, Taderera, T. (2020). A cross-sectional study to determine the use of alternative medicines during pregnancy in the district hospitals in Manicaland, Zimbabwe. African Health Sciences, 20, 64-72.

Some pregnant women use traditional medicines as labor aids throughout the entire pregnancy period.

0989. Dzimiri, C.T., Dzimiri, P., & Batisai, K. (2019). Fighting against HIV and AIDS within a resource constrained rural setting: a case study of the Ruvheneko Programme in Chirumhanzu, Zimbabwe. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 16, 25-34.

Social cohesion fostered by aspects such as religiosity, cultural ethos of Ubuntu, and a consultative approach played a key role in unifying people.

0990. Freeman, M., Simmonds, J.E., & Parry, C.D.H. (2020). Health promotion: How government can ensure that the National Health Insurance Fund has a fighting chance. The South African Medical Journal, 110(3), 188-191.

We doubt that health promotion will have significant impact on population health or reducing healthcare need.

0991. Garg, R., Aravind, S., Kaur, S., Chawla, S.P.S., …, Goyal, G. (2020). Role of serum ferritin as a prognostic marker in acute ischemic stroke: A preliminary observation. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 95-102.

Serum ferritin can be used as a prognostic marker in acute ischemic stroke.

0992. Gudyanga, E., de Lange, N., & Khau, M. (2019). Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers teaching sexuality education in the HIV and AIDS education curriculum. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 16, 35-50.

The participatory visual methodology enabled the Guidance and Counseling teachers to reflect on themselves and the context in which they taught.

0993. Hahn, E.A., Mwinnyaa, G., Rao, A., Wallis, L., …, Hansoti, N. (2020). Impact of endemic HIV on emergency care service delivery in South Africa. The South African Medical Journal, 110(3), 217-222.

Providers of emergency care need to be well versed in the management of HIV and associated complications.

0994. Haldeman, M.S., Nolan, M.S., & Ng'habi, K.R.N. (2020). Human hookworm infection: Is effective control possible? A review of hookworm control efforts and future directions. Acta Tropica, 201, 105214.

Current studies are evaluating the effectiveness of novel deworming strategies, including multidrug regimens and expansion of deworming.

0995. Holness, J.L., Bezuidenhout, K., Davids, M.R., & Warwick, J.M. (2020). Validation of equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate in South Africans of mixed ancestry. The South African Medical Journal, 110(3), 229-234.

We report on the accuracy of these prediction equations in black South Africans and those of Indian ancestry.

0996. Hoummadi, L., Berrouch, S., Amraouza, Y., Adel, A., …, Hafid, J. (2020). Seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women of the Marrakech-Safi region, Morocco. African Health Sciences, 20, 59-63.

Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence is related to climatic factors, lifestyle, eating habits, socio-economic status, and hygiene.

0997. Jimoh, A.K., Ghazal, M.S., Adeleke, A.B., Adeniyi, A.A., …, Busari, O.A. (2020). Biochemical pattern of thyroid function test and clinical impression of thyroid disorder in a rural tertiary health institution in Nigeria Highly accessed article. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 89-94.

Diagnostic challenge may arise both clinically and biochemically because of the multiple function of thyroid hormones.

0998. Kimera, E., Vindevogel, S., Rubaihayo, J., Reynaert, D., …, Bilsen, J. (2019). Youth living with HIV/AIDS in secondary schools: perspectives of peer educators and patron teachers in Western Uganda on stressors and supports. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 16, 51-61.

Interventions that promote resilient school communities are necessary to foster disclosure in a non-discriminatory and stigma-free environment.

0999. Kiranga, J.W., Lumala, M.F.P., & Richard, M. (2020). Disclosing HIV-positive status: What do questions have to do with it? AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 9, 1-8.

We argue that questions play a crucial role in disclosure of a HIV-positive status in accessing information which would otherwise be unavailable.

1000. Kudom, A.A. (2020). Entomological surveillance to assess potential outbreak of Aedes-borne arboviruses and insecticide resistance status of Aedes aegypti from Cape Coast, Ghana. Acta Tropica, 202, 105257.

Based on estimated larval indices, the population density of Ae. aegypti here is sufficient to promote an outbreak of arboviruses.

1001. Lewis, C., Lartey, M., & Operario, D. (2020). Resilience and pathways to wellness among HIV-positive patients in Ghana: A qualitative study. African Journal of AIDS Research, 19, 69-79.

We support a resilience framework that focuses on individual strengths and positive adaptations to HIV diagnosis to promote care.

1002. Lurie, M.N., Kirwa, K., Callaway, J., Cornell, M., …, Colvin, C. (2020). Quantifying the HIV treatment cascade in a South African health sub-district by gender: Retrospective cohort study. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 25, 186-192.

Rates of engagement in care differ by gender in key stages of the cascade, with men faring worse than women at each cascade point.

1003. Maduka, O. (2019). Investigating client satisfaction with antiretroviral treatment services in South-South Nigeria. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 16, 70-76.

Improvements are needed: quality of care at the centers included increasing staff strength and improving the quality and cost of laboratory services.

1004. Mbaipago, N., Mindekem, R., Oussiguere, A., Moyengar, R., & Léchenne, M. (2020). Rabies knowledge and practices among human and veterinary health workers in Chad. Acta Tropica, 202, 105180.

To prevent human rabies deaths close communication between the veterinary and human health sector is needed for timely treatment after.

1005. Mbakwem-Aniebo, C., Osadebe, A.U., Athanasonny, E., & Okonko, I.O. (2020). Prevalence of Candida spp. and age-related disparities amongst women presenting with vaginitis at the Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) clinic in a tertiary hospital in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. African Health Sciences, 20, 51-58.

Vaginitis, an infection of the lower genital tract in women, is triggered by the overgrowth of the vagina’s naturally occurring microorganisms.

1006. Meghana, V.S., Vasudevarao, S.B., & Kamath, S.S. (2020). The effect of combination of warm intravenous fluid infusion and forced air warming versus forced air warming alone on maternal temperature and shivering during cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 137-143.

Combination of warm intravenous fluid infusion and forced air warming is better than forced air warming alone.

1007. Mohammed, S.O., Shuaibu, S.D.A., Gaya, S.A., & Rabiu, A. (2020). The efficacy of two doses versus 7 days' course of prophylactic antibiotics following cesarean section: An experience from Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 103-112.

The use of two doses of amoxicillin-clavulanic acid has the advantages of reduced cost and some maternal side effects.

1008. Moodley, S., Goddard, E., Levin, M., Scott, C., …, Eley, B. (2020). A retrospective description of primary immunodeficiency diseases at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, 1975 – 2017. The South African Medical Journal, 110(3), 197-203.

Challenges exist in the recognition and treatment of children with immunodeficiency diseases: limited access to genetic diagnostics and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

1009. Nwogu, C.M., Okunade, K.S., Adenekan, M.A., Sekumade, A.I., …, Oluwole, A.A. (2020). Association between maternal serum homocysteine concentrations in early pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 113-118.

There is still conflicting evidence on the extent to which maternal hyperhomocysteinemia is a risk factor for pregnancy complications.

1010. Oche, O.M., Nneka, I.C., Abiola, O.R., Raji, I., …, Adamu, I. (2020). Determinants of occupational health hazards among roadside automobile mechanics in Sokoto Metropolis, Nigeria. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 80-88.

Auto mechanics did not adhere to safety practices in the workplace, mostly due to nonavailability of protective apparel.

1011. Odwee, A., Kasozi, K.I., Acup, C.A., Kyamanywa, P., …, Bamaiyi, P.H. (2020). Malnutrition amongst HIV adult patients in selected hospitals of Bushenyi district in southwestern Uganda. African Health Sciences, 20, 122-131.

The current policy of prioritizing children and women is outdated due to changing disease dynamic.

1012. Ogunsola, F.T., Odukoya, O.O., Banigbe, B., Caleb-Adepoju, S.O., …, Kanki, P. (2020). A preprogram appraisal of factors influencing research productivity among faculty at college of medicine, University of Lagos. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 124-130.

Research output appears to be motivated primarily by a desire for personal development, promotion, and respect from peers.

1013. Onyekonwu, C.L., Onyeka, T.C., Brenda, M.C., Ijoma, U.N., …, Nwachukwu, C.V. (2020). Chronic HIV infection and health related quality of life in resource poor settings-an assessment from south east Nigeria. African Health Sciences, 20, 102-113.

The presence of co-morbidities significantly reduces quality of life in these patients.

1014. Petravicius, P.O., Costa-Martins, A.G., Silva, M.N., Reis-Cunha, J.L., & Zingales, B. (2019). Mapping benznidazole resistance in trypanosomatids and exploring evolutionary histories of nitroreductases and ABCG transporter protein sequences. Acta Tropica, 200, 105161.

The nitro-heterocyclic compound benznidazole is the first-line drug for the treatment of Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi.

1015. Reid, K.M., Martin, L.J., & Heathfield, L.J. (2020). Bodies without names: A retrospective review of unidentified decedents at Salt River Mortuary, Cape Town, South Africa, 2010 – 2017. The South African Medical Journal, 110(3), 223-228.

The short interval between death declaration and postmortem examination suggests that DNA analysis should be more regularly utilized.

1016. Reid, S.J., Naidu, C., Kantor, G., & Seebregts, C.J. (2020). Do electronic patient information systems improve efficiency and quality of care? An evaluation of utilisation of the Discovery HealthID application. The South African Medical Journal, 110(3), 210-216.

Discovery Health’s HealthID could improve the efficiency of medical consultations by increasing access to stored health information without requiring data entry by clinicians.

1017. Runcie, S.C. (2020). From malaria eradication to basic health services: Decolonization and public health futures in 1960s Cameroon. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 27-46.

Cameroonians also grappled with how and to what degree to reform the institutional architecture of French colonial medicine.

1018. Sileo, K.M., Bogart, L.M., Wagner, G.J., Musoke, W., …, Wanyenze, R.K. (2019). HIV fatalism and engagement in transactional sex among Ugandan fisherfolk living with HIV. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 16, 1-9.

HIV fatalism is a contributor to transactional sex in Ugandan fishing communities and is a product of broader social and contextual factors.

1019. Thomas, B.L., Bipath, P., & Viljoen, M. (2020). Inflammatory activity and academic performance in university students. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 53-57.

No pro-inflammatory biomarker correlated significantly with measures of academic performance.

1020. Tigabu, B.M., Agide, F.D., Mohraz, M., & Nikfar, S. (2020). Atazanavir/ritonavir versus Lopinavir/ritonavir-based combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) for HIV-1 infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis. African Health Sciences, 20, 91-101.

Atazanavir/ritonavir has a better viral suppression at lower risk of lipid abnormality than lopinavir/ritonavir.

1021. van Rensburg, R., Lorente, V.P.-F., Blockman, M., Moodley, K., …, Decloedt, E.H. (2020). Medical cannabis: What practitioners need to know. The South African Medical Journal, 110(3), 192-196.

No evidence exists for the use of medical cannabis for chronic pain, sleep and weight disorders, and neuropsychiatric disorders.

1022. Wisniewski, J., Acosta, A., Kolaczinski, J., Koenker, H., & Yukich, J. (2020). Systematic review and meta-analysis of the cost and cost-effectiveness of distributing insecticide-treated nets for the prevention of malaria. Acta Tropica, 202, 105229.

Mass campaigns have lower average distribution costs per net compared with continuous/health facility distribution or sale/vouchers.

1023. Zakaria, A., Hemida, R., Elrefaie, W., & Refaie, E. (2020). Incidence and outcome of gestational trophoblastic disease in lower Egypt. African Health Sciences, 20, 73-82.

Gestational trophoblastic disease defines a spectrum of proliferative disorders of trophoblastic epithelium of the placenta.

Political Structure (Process, law)

1024. Abeshu, G.A. (2019). The rise of new forms of power in Africa: The emergence of big men in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, 7(2), 5-29.

A Big Man became the sole power figure who grants access to mine salt on Dobi and who collects taxes.

1025. Aboagye, P.Y. & Hillbom, E. (2020). Tax bargaining, fiscal contracts, and fiscal capacity in Ghana: A long-term perspective. African Affairs, 119(475), 177–202.

A history of misappropriation of tax revenues, overt corruption, and profligacy diminished taxpayers’ support for governments’ tax efforts.

1026. Agyekum, H.A. (2020). Peacekeeping experiences as triggers of introspection in the Ghanaian military barracks. Africa Spectrum, 54, 50–72.

Ghanaian soldiers’ narratives about peacekeeping experiences are framed as deterring examples for their home society.

1027. Bayeh, E. (2020). The proliferation of overlapping sub-regional organisations in Eastern Africa: An opportunity for or a challenge to the security of the region? African Studies, 79, 125-142.

The proliferation of sub-regional organizations in Eastern Africa is more of a challenge than an opportunity to maintain peace and security in the region.

1028. Bereketeab, R. (2020). State legitimacy and government performance in the Horn of Africa. African Studies, 79, 51-69.

State legitimacy determines government performance, as the latter also determines the former.

1029. Castryck, G. (2020). Children of the revolution: The citizenship of urban Muslims in the Burundian decolonization process. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 185-203.

I explain political stances of some Muslim protagonists gradually diverging in light of the exclusionary politics of colonial authorities and Burundian nationalists.

1030. Dee, H. (2020). Central African immigrants, imperial citizenship and the politics of free movement in interwar South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 319-337.

Ideas of imperial citizenship were not only reclaimed ‘from the bottom up’ by Nyasas but also deconstructed and instrumentalized.

1031. Donkor, F. & Zhou, D. (2020). Organisational commitment influences on the relationship between transactional and laissez-faire leadership styles and employee performance in the Ghanaian public service environment. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 30-36.

Public sector leadership should adopt strategies to inculcate continuance commitment in organisational activities towards enhanced employee performance.

1032. Driessen, M. (2019). Laughing about corruption in Ethiopian-Chinese encounters. American Anthropologist, 121, 911-922.

Corruption is one of the recurring topics in amusing narratives that circulate on and off the Chinese-run building sites.

1033. du Plessis, A. (2020). The emergence of decentralised centralism in the South African education governance system. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 165-183.

Decentralized centralism has permeated the South African education system at the expense of the notion of community participation.

1034. Dzanic, D. (2020). Informal empire and international law in Tunisia after the French Revolution. The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 386-414.

French diplomats succeeded in remoulding Tunisia into an appendage of the growing French Mediterranean Empire in the Napoleonic expansion.

1035. Hassanzadeh, N. (2020). Realism and its limitations for Ibn Khaldūn. The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 523-544.

He passes critical judgment on political affairs in a manner that is in keeping with the spirit of certain strands of realism.

1036. Hove, M. & Chenzi, V. (2020). Social media, civil unrest and government responses: the Zimbabwean experience. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 121-137.

The Mugabe led government used rigid and repressive measures targeting the protesters, as well as traditional and social media platforms.

1037. Hull, E. (2020). Going up or getting out? Professional insecurity and austerity in the South African health sector. Africa, 90, 548-567.

Practices of professionalism are entangled with those of clientelism inherited from this earlier period of homeland politics.

1038. Ingiriis, M.H. (2020). Predatory politics and personalization of power: The abuses and misuses of the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) in Somalia. African Affairs, 119(475), 251–274.

The intelligence agency normalizes extrajudicial activities to serve the agenda of political authorities and to suppress their critics.

1039. Jeater, D. (2020). Can spirits play a role in peace and reconciliation projects? Perspectives on traditional reconciliation in Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 154-169.

A continuity of community/cultural approaches can inform contemporary national healing initiatives in Zimbabwe.

1040. Karreth, A.K. (2020). Community policing amidst diversity: Exploring the role of inter-group trust in two Cape Town neighbourhoods. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57, 497-517.

Inter-group trust plays an important role in explaining when and where communities succeed in collective endeavors.

1041. Kasfir, N. (2020). The restoration of the Buganda Kingdom Government 1986–2014: Culture, contingencies, constraints. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57, 519-540.

Competing groups, despite acting on contradictory cultural principles, overcame the suspicion of a newly empowered central government.

1042. Latif, L.A. (2019). In pursuit of financial justice: Local African communities’ quest for legal redress against business-related human rights abuses. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, 7(2), 55-87.

Justice is needed to remedy the violation of human rights as a result of the business activities of mining corporations.

1043. Lentz, C. (2020). Doing being middle-class in the global South: Comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges. Africa, 90, 439-469.

I discuss the history of scholarly debates on the middle classes and what empirical studies tell us about people's contested self-categorizations.

1044. Lockwood, P. (2020). ‘Before there is power, there is the country’: Civic nationalism and political mobilisation amongst Kenya's opposition coalitions, 2013–2018. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57, 541-561.

A civic nationalism enunciated by the opposition congeals support through its emphasis on universal values: democracy, due process, equality, adherence to the constitution.

1045. MacRobert, C.J. (2020). A review of impacts associated with infrastructure news coverage in South Africa. South African Geographical Journal, 102, 236–248.

Discriminatory land planning and social-justice impacts caused by the misuse of public finances were the main social impacts.

1046. Maranga-Musonye, M. (2020). The Fanon Factor in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Children's Fiction. Research in African Literatures, 50(3), 51-69.

I discuss the impact of ideological leanings in children's fiction by focusing on characterization and plot in the three Njamba Nene stories.

1047. Mbembe, A. & Chauvet, L. (2020). Afropolitanism. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 46, 56–61.

Africans living outside of Africa are developing a transnational culture that I call “Afropolitan.”

1048. Mercer, C. & Lemanski, C. (2020). The lived experiences of the African middle classes. Africa, 90, 429-438.

What it means to be middle-class in Africa today necessarily requires an understanding of the historical, social and spatial embeddedness of lived experiences.

1049. Messac, L. (2020). Birthing a nation: Political legitimacy and health policy in Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s Malawi, 1962–1980. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 209-228.

While Banda did not consider health a priority, his reliance on symbols of abundance, health and fertility left him vulnerable to critique.

1050. Mkandawire, T. (2020). Zimbabwe’s transition overload: An interpretation. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 18-38.

Each transition was probably inevitable and the trajectory they followed may be the right one for each of the transitions.

1051. Mottiar, S. & Lodge, T. (2020). 'Living inside the movement': The Right2Know campaign, South Africa. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 102, 95-120.

The Right2Know campaign was initiated to protect access to information and, more broadly, freedom of expression in South Africa.

1052. Mudasiru, S.O. & Fatai, A. (2020). State, vigilantism and youth violence in Nigeria: A study of ‘Onyabo’ in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 14(2), 46-62.

The security architecture of the state must recognize vigilante groups legally and institutionally, as a complementary security outfit to the Nigerian police.

1053. Muluye, K. (2020). The formation of Ethiopia’s federation and its implications for the Amharas’ quest for recognition and boundary demarcations. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, 8(1), 35-63.

The putting-together federation left ethnic groups such as the Amhara without protection by regional constitutions.

1054. Mwonzora, G. (2020). Social media and citizen mobilisation in the biometric voter registration (BVR) process in Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 103-120.

Facebook and Twitter were used in mobilizing, informing and educating citizens to participate in a system of biometric voter registration.

1055. O’Brien, S.M. (2020). Community mobilisation and HIV activism in Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 138-153.

Neighborhoods negotiate and assert community and individual needs in relation to HIV.

1056. Odewale, A.D. (2019). Local government and primary education in Nigeria: An overview. AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 8(4), 138-146.

Local governments remain the major actor and provider of primary education in Nigeria.

1057. Olu-Adeyemi, L. & Shaibu, M.T. (2020). Is there borderline in Nigeria's northeast? Multi-national joint task force and counterinsurgency operation in perspective. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 14(2), 33-45.

Create a safe environment in areas affected by Boko Haram activities, prevent expansion of insurgency activities, and facilitate overall stabilization programs to fully restore state authority.

1058. Orock, R. (2020). Rumours in war: Boko Haram and the politics of suspicion in French–Cameroon relations. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57, 563-587.

I examine the politics of rumors and conspiracy theories that have defined the popular response to the war in Cameroon.

1059. Osiebe, G. (2020). The Ghetto President and presidential challenger in Uganda. Africa Spectrum, 54, 86–99.

The Ghetto President, as he is popularly known, has declared his intention to run for the office Museveni occupies.

1060. Pellerin, C.L. (2020). The aspiring developmental state and business associations in Ethiopia – (dis-)embedded autonomy? The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57, 589-612.

The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front's relationship to the private sector is characterized by curbing the private sector's power to prevent challenges.

1061. Ponte, S. & Brockington, D. (2020). From pyramid to pointed egg? A 20-year perspective on poverty, prosperity, and rural transformation in Tanzania. African Affairs, 119(475), 203–223.

We discuss the implications of these factors for agricultural policy.

1062. Power, J. (2020). Chieftaincy in Malawi: Reinvention, re-emergence or resilience? A Kasungu case study. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 263–281.

Chieftaincy survives through invoking tradition and adapting to specific historical circumstances.

1063. Reuss, A. (2020). Forever vanguards of the revolution: The Uganda People’s Defence Forces’ liberation legacy, 30 years on. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 250-269.

Retaining institutions and practices of revolutionary politicization, the military serves in political, social and economic roles which blur the boundaries between the civilian and the military.

1064. Reyntjens, F. (2020). Respecting and circumventing presidential term limits in sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative survey. African Affairs, 119(475), 275–295.

I consider the cost-benefit analyses leaders engage in when deciding to stay or to go, as well as the risks of overstaying.

1065. Rosadini, S. (2020). Black-and-white picture of a political system: Post-apartheid South Africa. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 14(2), 63-73.

Post-apartheid was a consequent shift of the political system from a Pre-industrialized/Totalitarian to a Continental European one.

1066. Sabbi, M., Doumbia, L., & Neubert, D. (2020). Dynamics of everyday life within municipal administrations in Francophone and Anglophone Africa. Africa Spectrum, 54, 73–85

Decentralisation in sub-Saharan Africa promises to build responsive institutions, hold officials to account and promote popular participation.

1067. Schritt, J. (2020). Dis/ordering politics: Urban riots and the socio-political configuration of contemporary Niger. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57, 613-634

I discuss contemporary politics and society in Niger and to counter culturalist, ahistoric, and Eurocentric notions of ‘African disorder.’

1068. Sweet, R. (2020). Bureaucrats at war: The resilient state in the Congo. African Affairs, 119(475), 224–250.

Pre-existing routines of noncompliance can use bureaucratic discretion and opacity to limit rebels’ takeover of state structures.

1069. Takawira, N. (2020). Mediation effect of perceived organisational and social support in the relationship between career adaptability and career satisfaction among professional women. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 23-29.

Employer organizations should provide work-based support resources to professional women employees for career adaptability skills and satisfaction.

1070. Traugh, G. (2020). Yielding trouble: Development dilemmas and the political uses of bad data in Malawi, 1964–1978. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 229-245.

Malawian officials and the World Bank put bad data to use amid national debates on hunger, agriculture, and the future of development.

1071. Werbner, P. & Werbner, R. (2020). A case of inheritance: From citizens’ forum to magisterial justice in Botswana’s customary courts. Anthropology Southern Africa, 43, 15-31.

In the past the presiding judge allowed members of the court, usually in ascending order of seniority, to express their views before reaching a judgment.

1072. Wroe, D. (2020). Remembering Kamuzu: The ambiguity of the past in Malawi’s Central Region. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 247-261.

Kamuzu cultivated a political culture that made the hardships people experienced under him appear to have more proximate, personal causes.

1073. Amah, O.E. & Oyetunde, K. (2019). Human resources management practice, job satisfaction and affective organisational commitment relationships: The effects of ethnic similarity and difference. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 45, a1701.

Our study makes a valuable contribution to how ethnicity affects attribution in human resources management practice studies.

1074. Becker, J., Meiring, D., & van der Westhuizen, J.H. (2019). Investigating the construct validity of an electronic in-basket exercise using bias-corrected bootstrapping and Monte Carlo re-sampling techniques. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 45, a1582.

We made a methodological contribution by demonstrating how re-sampling techniques can be used in small assessment center samples.

1075. Celka, P., Granqvist, N., Schwabl, H., & Edwards, S.D. (2020). Development and evaluation of a Cardiac Coherence Index for sleep analysis. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 44-52.

The Cardiac Coherence Index method is potentially a useful tool for the study of consciousness and as a home-based system for sleep management.

1076. du Plessis, M. & Martins, N. (2019). Developing a measurement instrument for coping with occupational stress in academia. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 45, a1653.

The Comprehensive Coping Strategies Questionnaire was developed within the South African higher education context.

1077. Fischer, M., Ramaswamy, R., Fischer-Flores, L., & Mugisha, G. (2019). Measuring and understanding depression in women in Kisoro, Uganda. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 43, 160-180.

Feelings of uselessness or of hopelessness when expressed by a patient should lead them to suspect severe mental illness.

1078. Gordon, S.L. (2020). Understanding the attitude–behaviour relationship: A quantitative analysis of public participation in anti-immigrant violence in South Africa. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 103–114.

Anti-immigrant perceptions could have a mobilizing effect, spurring individuals towards acts of violent xenophobia.

1079. Gumani, M.A. (2019). The influence of organizational stressors on the well-being and performance of operational police members. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 45, a1674.

I highlight internal, external, task-related and individual organizational stressors among operational members of the South African Police Service.

1080. Kheswa, J.G. (2019). Factors and effects of work-related stress and burnout on the well-being of social workers in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 45, a1661.

Social workers attributed their work-related stress to lack of resources such as transport, computers, and inadequate emotional support.

1081. Kotze, M. & Massyn, L. (2019). The influence of employees’ cross-cultural psychological capital on workplace psychological well-being. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 45, a1660.

Cross-cultural psychological capital had a statistically significant negative influence on burnout and a statistically significant positive influence on work engagement.

1082. Lovell, A.M. & Diagne, P.M. (2019). Falling, dying sheep, and the divine: Notes on thick therapeutics in peri-urban Senegal. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 43, 663-685.

We examine how cultural logics in this region spill over from social domains to widen the therapeutic sphere of psychoses and epilepsy.

1083. Morton, N., Hill, C., Meiring, D., & de Beer, L.T. (2019). Investigating the factor structure of the South African Personality Inventory – English version. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 45, a1556.

We advance the processes surrounding indigenous test development by establishing a personality model and measure that encapsulates personality traits.

1084. Nyabvudzi, T. & Chinyamurindi, W.T. (2019). The career development processes of women refugees in South Africa: An exploratory study. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 45, a1662.

Developing nations must facilitate the career development processes of women refugees.

1085. Nyundo, A. Manu, A., Regan, M., Ismail, A., …, Fawzi, M.C.S. (2020). Factors associated with depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation and behaviours amongst sub‐Saharan African adolescents aged 10‐19 years: Cross‐sectional study. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 25, 54-69.

Routine screening for depressive symptoms in services frequented by adolescents in these communities would be crucial in early detection.

1086. Onyedibe, M.C.C., Ibeagha, P.N., & Onyishi, I.E. (2020). Distress tolerance moderates the relationship between anger experience and elevated blood pressure. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 39–53.

Psychological interventions aimed at increasing people’s level of distress tolerance should be emphasized to manage elevated blood pressure.

1087. Peltzer, K. & Pengpid, S. (2020). Prevalence of bullying victimisation and associated factors among in-school adolescents in Mozambique. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 64-68.

Almost half of the school students with bullying victimization experience reported with a history of interpersonal violence and injury and psychological distress.

1088. Ramutumbu, N.J., Ramathuba, D.U., & Maputle, M.S. (2020). Unmet psychosocial care needs of the oncology patients in a South African rural setting. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 58-63.

Thematic analysis of data revealed the patients perceived a lack of emotional support, timeliness of care, and education on their treatment.

1089. van der Walt, F. & Steyn, P. (2019). Workplace spirituality and the ethical behaviour of project managers. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 45, a1687.

Workplace spirituality should not be seen as a quick fix to reduce unethical behavior, unless there is honest commitment by organizational leaders.

1090. van der Watt, A.S.J., Das-Brailsford, P., Mbanga, I., & Seedat, S. (2020). South African isiXhosa traditional healer self-identification, training, practices, and their perceptions of collaboration with medical providers: An exploratory study. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 115–127.

A traditional healer treats clients with mental illness using herbs, candles, and prayer.

1091. Vavani, B., Kraaij, V., Spinhoven, P., Amone-P’Olak, K., & Garnefski, N. (2020). Intervention targets for people living with HIV and depressive symptoms in Botswana. African Journal of AIDS Research, 19, 80-88.

An intervention for people with HIV with depressive symptoms in Botswana should preferably be a self-help program booklet.

1092. Zoccola, D., Shuttleworth-Edwards, A.B., & Radloff, S.E. (2020). Signs of cognitive dysfunction in adult players of club level rugby. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 128–140.

We found deleterious cognitive performances in adult club level rugby players relative to equivalent non-contact sports controls.

1093. Bukari, K.N., Bukari, S., Sow, P., & Scheffran, J. (2020). Diversity and multiple drivers of pastoral Fulani migration to Ghana. Nomadic Peoples, 24, 4–31.

The drivers of migration include labor demand for pastoralists, access to pasture, conflict, social networks, and peaceful relations.

1094. Chekero, T. & Morreira, S. (2020). Mutualism despite ostensible difference: HuShamwari, kuhanyisana, and conviviality between Shona Zimbabweans and Tsonga South Africans in Giyani, South Africa. Africa Spectrum, 54, 33–49.

Mutuality can be made between people even where the wider social context remains antagonistic to “foreigners.”

1095. Ciucci, A. (2020). Performing l-ḥrig: music, sound and undocumented migration across the contemporary Mediterranean (Morocco–Italy). The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 572-593.

I explore ‘L-ḥərraga’ as a sonorous account of a hazardous crossing in which migration is presented as an ethical horizon.

1096. de Gruchy, T. & Vearey, J. (2020). “Left behind”: Why implementing migration-aware responses to HIV for migrant farm workers is a priority for South Africa. African Journal of AIDS Research, 19, 57-68.

A disproportionate HIV burden is international migrant farm workers living and working on commercial farms along the border with Zimbabwe.

1097. Fauri, F. & Strangio, D. (2020). The economic bases of migration from Italy: The distinct cases of Tunisia and Libya (1880s–1960s). The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 447-471.

The fascist colonial model aimed at creating settlements inhabited by Italians regardless of the real opportunities offered by the land to Italian migrants.

1098. Hassan, H.A. (2020). Transformations of forced migration in Africa: Issues and general problems. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 14(2), 74-83.

Effective study of migration in Africa may require the "Africanization" of all related concepts to serve as a tool for analysis with a cultural pan-African perspective.

1099. Idehen, R.O. & Ikuru, U.R. (2019). Migration and the emerging security challenges in West Africa: Case of Fulani herders/sedentary farmers conflicts in Nigeria. AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 8(4), 128-137.

An urgent constitutional provision is necessary that will provide for private ranching as a panacea to the perennial conflict between herders and local farmers.

1100. Kuiper, G. (2020). ‘They just move in with relatives’: Translocal labour migrants and transient spaces in Naivasha, Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 227-249.

Migrants, who mostly do not settle in Naivasha permanently, carve out space for themselves in the residential areas where they rent housing.

1101. Pucherova, D. (2019). What Is African woman? Transgressive sexuality in 21st-century African anglophone lesbian fiction as a redefinition of African feminism. Research in African Literatures, 50(2), 105-122.

Women's experience of sexual pleasure in woman-to-woman sexual acts is figured as an expression of freedom.

1102. Stites, E. (2020). 'The only place to do this is in town': Experiences of rural–urban migration in northern Karamoja, Uganda. Nomadic Peoples, 24, 32-55.

Many respondents struggled with the cost of living in towns and worked multiple ad hoc and low-skilled jobs in order to get by.

1103. Takyiakwaa, D. & Tanle, A. (2020). ‘We are each other’s keeper’: Migrant associations and integration in urban Africa. Urban Forum, 31, 115-134.

Migrant associations are relevant in engendering adaptive and supportive environment for migrants’ integration.

1104. Taylor, J. (2019). Language, race, and identity in Adichie's Americanah and Bulowayo's We Need New Names. Research in African Literatures, 50(2), 68-85.

These two migration novels dramatize and extend fundamental aspects of black diaspora theory.

1105. Zanker, F.L. & Moyo, K. (2020). The corona virus and migration governance in South Africa: Business as usual? Africa Spectrum, 54, 100–112.

We find that the virus response shows little change in the government agenda when it comes to dealing with refugees and other migrants.

1106. Alexander, N. & Costandius, E. (2020). Recognising religious and superstitious rituals within higher education contexts: A case study of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 12(1), 10-17.

Students’ experiences included engagement with African religious rituals, the effects of omens, and the use of rituals for academic success.

1107. Amaechi, K.E. & Tshifhumulo, R. (2019). Unpacking the socio-political background of the evolution of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria: A social movement theory approach. Journal for the Study of Religion, 32(2), 1-29.

We explain how the evolution of such an organization is rooted in context-specific political structures within northern Nigeria.

1108. Chineyemba, L.I. (2020). Moral panic and social order: Analysis of Akwa Ibom street children. International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 12(2), 29-42.

Some street children were called child-witches and thrown to the street due to a witchcraft label masterminded by parents and pastors.

1109. Court, A. (2019). Can the Rwandan Catholic church overcome its history of politicization? A reply to Philippe Denis. Journal for the Study of Religion, 32(2), A2.

The church deflected attention away from its problematic assumption of moral authority to mediate between perpetrators and victims/survivors.

1110. de La Ferrière, A.A. (2020). The Catholic Church in Tunisia: A transliminal institution between religion and nation. The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 415-446.

The Church in Tunisia succeeded in maintaining a position within the country after independence by transforming itself from a triumphalist colonial institution.

1111. Musoni, P.M. & Gundani, P.H. (2019). Open space worship: A religious identity of the Johane Masowe Chishanu Church in Zimbabwe. Journal for the Study of Religion, 32(2), A4.

We examine the veracity and provenance of this assumed identity by interrogating the church’s traditions and its relations with colonial authorities.

1112. Olayiwola, E. (2020). Nigerian evangelical film genres: The spectacle of the spiritual. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32, 115-130.

Believers of Yoruba traditional belief systems respond to these films because of the syncretic representations of the spirit world.

1113. Read, E.M. (2019). Rights as relationships: Collaborating with faith healers in community mental health in Ghana. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 43, 613–635.

Rather than enforcing legal prohibitions, mental health workers seek to avoid confrontation and maneuver within existing hierarchies.

1114. Roy, M., Moreau, N., Rousseau, C., Mercier, A., …, Atlani-Duault, L. (2020). Ebola and localized blame on social media: Analysis of Twitter and Facebook conversations during the 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 44, 56–79.

Pro-active and on-going analysis of blame circulating in social media can help to guide communications strategies, making them more responsive to public perceptions.

1115. Agheyisi, J.E. (2020). Informal land delivery and tenure security institutions in Benin City, Nigeria. Urban Forum, 31, 1-20.

Customary tenure rights need to be recognized as an alternative to statutory rights by the government.

1116. Blaauw, P., Pretorius, A., Viljoen, K., & Schenck, R. (2020). Adaptive expectations and subjective well-being of landfill waste pickers in South Africa’s Free State Province. Urban Forum, 31, 135-155.

Policy makers will be better equipped to integrate waste pickers in the formal waste management strategies of municipalities.

1117. Goodman, Z. (2020). "Going vertical" in times of insecurity: Constructing proximity and distance through a Kenyan gated high-rise. Focaal, 86, 24–35.

The Jaffery Complex, a gated high-rise being constructed in Mombasa, seems to embody Corbusian ideologies of social transformation.

1118. Goosen, J. & Fitchett, A. (2020). Success factors for urban brownfield developments in Johannesburg, South Africa. Urban Forum, 31, 41-59.

Contamination, liability for clean-up, poor market conditions, and uncertainty about funding contribute to a lack of success in the redevelopment of brownfield sites.

1119. Matamanda, A.R. (2020). Battling the informal settlement challenge through sustainable city framework: experiences and lessons from Harare, Zimbabwe. Development Southern Africa, 37, 217-231.

Informal settlements are a result of political economy, uncoordinated planning, invasion of land by land barons, and inappropriate planning ideologies.

1120. Muchadenyika, D. & Williams, J.J. (2020). Central-local state contestations and urban management in Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 89-102.

The destabilizing effect of contested urban governance politics on urban management in Zimbabwe has become entrenched.

1121. Scheba, A. & Turok, I.N. (2020). Strengthening township economies in South Africa: The case for better regulation and policy innovation. Urban Forum, 31, 77-94.

We examine the framework of government laws, regulations and administrative procedures that inhibit township economic development.

1122. Sekhwela, M.M. & Samson, M. (2020). Contested understandings of reclaimer integration—Insights from a failed Johannesburg pilot project. Urban Forum, 31, 21-39.

Any integration process must start with reclaimers and officials collectively developing a common conceptualisation of integration.

1123. Shikwambana, L & Tsoeleng, L.T. (2020). Impacts of population growth and land use on air quality. A case study of Tshwane, Rustenburg and Emalahleni, South Africa. South African Geographical Journal, 102, 209-222.

There is a close link between, land use, population growth, and air quality.

1124. Smith, C. (2020). Collapse: Fake buildings and gray development in Nairobi. Focaal, 86, 11–23.

I explore this sleek but materially fragile landscape through a lens of “gray development,” complicating standard distinctions between the informal and the formal.

1125. Varming, K.S. (2020). Urban subjects: Somali claims to recognition and urban belonging in Eastleigh, Nairobi. African Studies, 79, 1-20.

I discuss the role of taxation in historical as well as contemporary claims to recognition and the significance of taking claims to formal Kenyan courts.