Abstracts

Archaeology and Paleontology

0001. Almansa-Villatoro, M.V. (2020). The cultural indexicality of the N41 sign for bjȝ: The metal of the sky and the sky of metal. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 105, 73–81.

The indexicality of the N41 sign suggests that the relation between birth, afterlife, and iron existed even before the first attested long religious texts.

0002. Antoine, J.-C. (2020). The typology of settlements in Ramesside Middle Egypt. An analysis of the Wilbour Papyrus. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 105, 59–71.

Small rural settlements are not homogenous and can be distinguished according to their agricultural activity.

0003. Balolia, K.L., Jakeman, E.C., Massey, J.S., Groves, C., & Wood, B. (2020). Mandibular corpus shape is a taxonomic indicator in extant hominids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 172, 25–40.

When mandibular corpus variables were considered in isolation, posterior symphysis shape yielded the highest overall correct classification results.

0004. Beuthe, T. (2020). New insights into the Step Pyramid Complex: Klasens’ unpublished seal impression drawings. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 105, 135–141.

I discuss possible parallels between some of the Step Pyramid sealings and Beit Khallaf sealings.

0005. Brooks, N., Clarke, J., Ngaruiya, G.W., & Wangui, E.E. (2020). African heritage in a changing climate. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 55, 297–328.

We consider the impacts of climate change on different (connected) forms of heritage in Africa, including archaeological, historical and living heritage.

0006. Burney, D.A., Andriamialison, H., Andrianaivoarivelo, R.A., Bourne, S., … , Wright, H.T. (2020). Subfossil lemur discoveries from the Beanka Protected Area in western Madagascar. Quaternary Research, 93, 187–203.

The largely undisturbed taphonomy of bone deposits supports the interpretation that many specimens fell from a rock ledge above the entrance.

0007. Chirikure, S. (2020). New perspectives on the political economy of Great Zimbabwe. Journal of Archaeological Research, 28, 139–186.

Great Zimbabwe’s political economy was a mosaic rooted in a mix of seasonally specific, household-based, compositional strategies of production and circulation.

0008. Chollier, V. (2020). Social network analysis in Egyptology: Benefits, methods and limits. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 105, 83–96.

Social network analysis enabled attention to be drawn to secondary role characters at the first sight of the hieroglyphic documentation.

0009. Claes, W., Davey, C.J., & Hendrickx, S. (2020). An early Dynastic crucible from the settlement of Elkab (Upper Egypt). The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 105, 29–42.

This is the earliest complete crucible for melting copper yet found.

0010. Douglass, K. (2020). Amy ty lilin-draza’ay: Building archaeological practice on principles of community. African Archaeological Review, 37, 481–485.

The global crisis presents an opportunity to cement archaeological practice in a foundation of community building.

0011. Fassoulas, A., Rossie, J.-P., & Procopiou, H. (2020). Children, play, and learning tasks: From North African clay toys to Neolithic figurines. Ethnoarchaeology, 12, 36–62.

Making toys and playing with them are two inseparable activities, essential for learning everyday tasks.

0012. Frood, E. & Alvarez, C. (2020). A votive Isis-throne for Minmose (Ashmolean Museum AN 1888.561)? The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 105, 17–28.

Ashmolean Museum AN 1888.561 is a small, damaged limestone object carved with images of deities and texts.

0013. Holl, A.F.C. (2020). Dark side archaeology: Climate change and mid-holocene Saharan pastoral adaptation. African Archaeological Review, 37, 491–495.

Livestock zoonoses are constant sources of emerging infectious diseases in the present, as they were in the past.

0014. Huffman, T.N., Whitelaw, G., Tarduno, J.A., Watkeys, M.K., & Woodborne, S. (2020). The Rhino Early Iron Age site, Thabazimbi, South Africa. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 55, 360–388.

The Lydenburg Head, long-term occupation and settlement extent show that Rhino was a chief’s headquarters.

0015. Jurjens, J. (2020). The Teaching of Khety Twice– A New Reading of oBM EA 65597 as a School Exercise. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 105, 127–134.

The ostracon oBM EA 65597 contains two extracts from The Teaching of Khety, also known as The Satire of the Trades.

0016. Kemp, V., McDonald, A., Brock, F., & Shortland, A.J. (2020). LA-ICP-MS analysis of Late Bronze Age blue glass beads from Gurob, Egypt. Archaeometry, 62, 42–53.

These beads represent luxury items transported to Egypt by high-ranking foreign women, possibly in connection with the harem palace.

0017. Leplongeon, A., Ménard, C., Bonhomme, V., & Bortolini, E. (2020). Backed pieces and their variability in the Later Stone Age of the Horn of Africa. African Archaeological Review, 37, 437–468.

We describe the variability of backed pieces using multivariate statistical analysis of 28 attributes and 2D geometric morphometric analyses.

0018. Mutri, G., Barich, B.E., & Lucarini, G. (2020). The Early Holocene lithic tradition of the northern Farafra Plateau (tenth–ninth millennia cal BP): Its significance in the Egyptian Western Desert. African Archaeological Review, 37, 383–411.

These were shaped by seasonality and changes in climatic regimes, considerations for access to raw materials for lithic tool production, and changing subsistence.

0019. Ogundiran, A. (2020). Managing epidemics in ancestral Yorùbá towns and cities: “Sacred groves” as isolation sites. African Archaeological Review, 37, 497–502.

COVID-19 pandemic is firing up our imagination about how to account for the past epidemics in archaeological contexts.

0020. Petrullo, G. & Delaplace, A. (2020). Common cultural markers in the bone and lithic production of the Upper Capsian: A comparative approach. African Archaeological Review, 37, 415–436.

Two systems of production are considered: multi-structured matrix partition in the bone industry and pressure knapping in the lithic industry.

0021. Pfeiffer, S. (2020). Disease as a factor in the African archaeological record. African Archaeological Review, 37, 487–490.

Paleogenomics research can also identify some (not all) endemic and epidemic disease vectors.

0022. Polo, M.A.M. & Javaloyes, V.S. (2020). Environmental conditions in TT 209, Luxor. The case of a Theban tomb subject to periodic flooding. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 105, 115–125.

TT 209 was built in a wadi, a location that means it has been affected by flash floods since ancient times.

0023. Ragni, A.J. (2020). Trabecular architecture of the capitate and third metacarpal through ontogeny in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and gorillas (Gorilla gorilla). Journal of Human Evolution, 138, 102702.

I confirm the efficacy of trabecular bone in reflecting locomotor ontogeny differences between closely related taxa.

0024. Sari, L. (2020). Diachronic variation in microlith production systems during the Late Pleistocene, Algeria. African Archaeological Review, 37, 327–359.

The hunter-gatherer populations of the Maghreb produced microliths using a wide range of technological options.

0025. Schepers, C., Lesur, J., & Vogelsang, R. (2020). Hunter-gatherers of the high-altitude Afromontane forest– The Holocene occupation of Mount Dendi, Ethiopia. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 55, 329–359.

Dendi Lake Rockshelter yielded microliths that are one of the main characteristics of the Later Stone Age.

0026. Steyn, M. & Meyer, A. (2020). Assessment of human skeletal remains from the Penhalonga district, Zimbabwe. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 55, 389–413.

Skeletal and faunal analyses and radiocarbon dating were used to gain more information on the bioarchaeology of the region.

0027. Thiaw, I. (2020). Archaeology of two pandemics and Teranga aesthetic. African Archaeological Review, 37, 475–479

The COVID–19 pandemic has exposed how coloniality and racism are endemic to modern society.

0028. van Haarlem, W. (2020). ‘But he has broken every jar in the place, as he said he would …’: Letters of Petrie to von Bissing: A short contribution to the history of Egyptology. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 105, 143–147.

Petrie gives short reports about his work in Abydos, Heracleopolis, the Fayum and Memphis.

Arts (Dance, folklore, graphic arts, music)

0029. Asadu, F. (2020). Lexical innovation and mainstreaming in Igbo indigenous music. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51(2), 90–105.

Cultural and linguistic resources are harnessed by Igbo indigenous musicians in creating new expressions to convey ideas.

0030. Boyd, L. (2020). Circuits of compassion: The affective labor of Uganda’s Christian orphan choirs. African Studies Review, 63(3), 518–539.

I consider how participants in charitable relationships conceive of dependency and indebtedness differently.

0031. Chiangong, P.M. (2019). Patronage or negotiation?: An exploration of the performances of The Boomerang and Pamela’s Journal. Matatu, 51, 118–138.

I explore the role of institutions and organisations that fund theater projects to highlight the impact of patronage.

0032. Chitongo, L. & Taru, J. (2019). Framing subalternity, precarity and poverty in selected songs by Leonard Zhakata. Muziki, 16(2), 22–37.

We make a contribution to the complexity of music, power, and subalternity in postcolonial Zimbabwe.

0033. Dave, N. (2020). Becoming militant: Embodying the Guinean revolution and Guinea–China relations. Africa, 90, 721–745.

I show how embodied practices, including the circulation of dancers and official delegations, cultivated Guinea's relationship with China.

0034. du Preez, J.B. (2020). ‘Rediscovering the erotic as ordinary’ in South African women’s short fiction. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 689–702.

The focus in these stories is not on the sex act but on the build-up of sexual desire.

0035. El Maarouf, F. & El Maarouf, M.D. (2019). City as canvas: Street art(ists), walls and the city between state patronage and artistic transformation. Matatu, 51, 23–42.

The JSAF presents a venue for local artists to perform and translate their thoughts and artistic visions into murals of a grand scale.

0036. Groenewald, P.S. (2020). Sendinginvloed op die Sepediversvorm– die heffingsvers. [Missionary influence on Sepedi verse form– the isochronic verse]. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 157–163. [In Afrikaans]

I have to define anew the sonnet in Sepedi, because there are no iambic feet, and rhyming is problematic.

0037. Kohl, M.-A. (2019). Dancing with empty water bottles at L’ Afrique a un incroyable talent, brought to you by Nestlé. Matatu, 51, 169–192.

Local topics of critique and intervention are part of the localizing effect of the Reality TV talent show format.

0038. Louw, M. (2019). Transformation through reclamation and the repositioning of tradition. South African Journal of Art History, 34(2), 43–61.

Willie Bester’s work, especially his use of collage and assemblage, represents a distancing from, or repositioning of, the artistic traditions of the global North.

0039. Lucia, C. (2019). “The times do not permit”: Moerane, South Africa, Lesotho, and Fatše La Heso. Muziki, 16(2), 87–112.

I promote a better and fairer understanding of this work's personal, historical, political, and cultural significance.

0040. Lüdemann, W. (2019). Jan Coetzee (1912–1999). An examination of the works of an unacknowledged South African composer. South African Journal of Cultural History, 33(2), 45–71.

His entire oeuvre is composed in a fully-realized atonal style, which is demanding on performers and listeners alike.

0041. Maré, E.A. (2019). Representations of the sun before and after the Copernican revolution. South African Journal of Art History, 34(2), 84–123.

Modern depictions of the sun are as enigmatic as pre-historical mythological representations.

0042. Mbogo, F. (2019). Sweetness in an age caught between anti-stoic regret and Sisyphurian cynicism: Replaying dialogue in Role Play and Betrayal in the City. Matatu, 51, 193–208.

Both plays situate characters in spaces, through their dialogue, where escape becomes vital.

0043. Mboya, T.M. (2019). “Music is sweet when your praises are sung”: Pleasure and power in the ‘live band’ music performances of Ja-Mnazi Afrika in Eldoret, Kenya. Matatu, 51, 209–223.

I discuss the asymmetry inscribed in the patron–client paradigm often used to describe the relationship between artists and consumers of art.

0044. Mthatiwa, S. & Ngwira, E. (2019). Moyo wa Mtauni: Imagining the city in Malawian popular music. Muziki, 16(2), 67–86.

How do the economic, structural, or material settings of Malawian cities shape perceptions of the city?

0045. Ngum, Y. (2019). Transformative power in performance: An artist’s account of the play ‘Tears in the Mirror.’ Matatu, 51, 79–93.

Victims of sexual violence are more likely to identify with narratives of other victims during a performance.

0046. Odhiambo, C.J. (2019). He who pays the piper plays the tune: The sponsor’s imperatives and messaging in S.A.F.E (K)’s Film Ni Sisi. Matatu, 51, 64–78.

The ideology and the messages as framed, circulated and conveyed by the film Ni Sisi are on post-election violence.

0047. Ojoawo, A. (2019). The street ideology: Sexual contours in Nigerian hip-hop music. Muziki, 16(2), 38–66.

The success of hip-hop music lies in its lyrical appeal to, and the existential representation of, the subculture of sex and sexuality of the artistes.

0048. Raia, A. (2019). Texts, voices and tapes: Mediating poetry on the Swahili Muslim Coast in the 21st century. Matatu, 51, 139–168.

What is the nature of performer identity formation within a “discourse network” of artists?

0049. Roy, M., Devroop, K., & Bohn, A. (2019). The positive impact of African drumming on elderly participants’ mood and demeanour. Muziki, 16(2), 113–125.

The drumming sessions involved physical activity, skill acquisition, reminiscence, joint music making and social interaction.

0050. Salawu, O.M. (2019). Abàmì Èdá: Personhood and socio-political commitment in Fela's music. Muziki, 16(2), 4–21.

I investigate the deployment of his peculiar linguistic tool and vituperative poetics termed Yabis.

0051. Vierke, C. (2019). Boarding a full bus: Refracted connections between the political and the poetic in Swahili popular poetry from Dar es Salaam. Matatu, 51, 94–117.

I argue for the potential of the aesthetic experience of poetry, whose imagery stirs the imagination of alternative worlds.

Ecology (Flora, fauna, primates)

0052. Aggrey-Fynn, J. (2020). Variability of otolith morphology in major fish species in coastal waters of Cape Coast-Elmina, Ghana. West African Journal of Applied Ecology, 28(1), 35–45.

The fish sagittae otoliths have unique structures for various fish species.

0053. Aladesanmi, A.J., Famuyiwa, F.G., Oriola, A.O., Oguntimehin, S.A., …, Arthur, G. (2020). Cytotoxic activity of selected Nigerian medicinal plants. Journal of Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants, 26, 203–217.

The petroleum ether fraction of Xylopia aethiopica fruit demonstrated the greatest anticancer activity.

0054. Arenson, J.L., Sargis, E.J., Hart, J.A., Hart, T.B., …, Gilbert, C.C. (2020). Skeletal morphology of the lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) and the evolution of guenon locomotor behavior. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 172, 3–24.

The arboreal members of the group are probably recently derived from a more semiterrestrial ancestor.

0055. Arkumarev, V., McGrady, M., & Angelov, I. (2020). A literature review of occurrence of Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) resident in Africa. Vulture News, 77, 1–54.

We call for the urgent implementation of various large-scale conservation measures that will combat threats.

0056. Atiah, K., Yeboah, E., Nartey, E., Lawson, D.Y.I., …, Marschner, B. (2020). Changes in bulk and surface properties of two biochar types during 12 months of field ageing in two West-African soils. West African Journal of Applied Ecology, 28(1), 61–84.

The study investigated the changes in properties of rice husk and corn cob biochars.

0057. Becker, F.K., Millikin, R.L., & Leslie, A.J. (2020). Using radar technology to assess visual monitoring accuracy of Cape Vulture movements. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 91, 83–90.

Cape Vulture flight and foraging behavior make it a challenging observer target.

0058. Belz, L., Schüller, I., Wehrmann, A., Köster, J., & Wilkes, H. (2020). The leaf wax biomarker record of a Namibian salt pan reveals enhanced summer rainfall during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 543, 109561.

We recognize the potential of southern African salt pans as archives for biomarker-based climate proxies.

0059. Bonadonna, G., Zaccagno, M., Torti, V., Valente, D., …, Giacoma, C. (2020). Intra- and intergroup spatial dynamics of a pair-living singing primate, Indri indri: A multiannual study of three indri groups in Maromizaha Forest, Madagascar. International Journal of Primatology, 41, 224–245.

Singing behavior plays an important role in mediating intergroup spatial dynamics.

0060. Bradley, J., Carter, S., Guarnieri, D., & Fidorra, J. (2020). Forest-dependent birds of the Tugen Hills, Baringo County, Kenya. Scopus: Journal of East African Ornithology, 40(2), 29–38.

Thick-billed Seedeaters Crithagra burtoni appear distinctly different to the expected subspecies here.

0061. Cooksey, K., Sanz, C., Ebombi, T.F., Massamba, J.M., …, Morgan, D. (2020). Socioecological factors influencing intergroup encounters in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). International Journal of Primatology, 41, 181–202.

Defense of mates, rather than of food resources, may be the most important driver of between-group competition in western lowland gorillas.

0062. Dogbatse, J.A., Arthur, A., Asare, E.K., Quaye, A.K., …, Addo, D. (2020). Physicochemical and biological properties of different cocoa pod husk-based composts. West African Journal of Applied Ecology, 28(1), 46–60.

Compost types were prepared by mixing cocoa pod husk, poultry manure and Panicum maximum in different proportions.

0063. Eller, A.R., Pobiner, B., Friend, S., Austin, R.M., …, Sholts, S.B. (2020). A chomped chimp: New evidence of tooth marks on an adult chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 172, 140–147.

Tooth pits and punctures overlap in size with those inflicted by wild leopards.

0064. Fening, K.O., MacCarthy, D.S., & Tegbe, R.E. (2020). Effect of intercropping and soil amendment on the population dynamics of major pests and natural enemies of white cabbage. West African Journal of Applied Ecology, 28(1), 96–112.

Intercropping and soil amendment have a lot of potential in sustainable vegetable production.

0065. Furuichi, T. (2020). Variation in intergroup relationships among species and among and within local populations of African apes. International Journal of Primatology, 41, 203–223.

Intergroup relationships differ for different combinations of groups and female dispersal among groups play an important role in affiliative relationships.

0066. Groenewald, P.A., Sealy, J., Stynder, D., & Smith, K.M. (2020). Dietary resource partitioning among three coeval proboscidean taxa (Anancus capensis, Mammuthus subplanifrons, Loxodonta cookei) from the South African Early Pliocene locality of Langebaanweg E Quarry. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 543, 109606.

L. cookei and M. subplanifrons spent more time in open habitats and were dietarily flexible.

0067. Hansen, R.N. (2020). Process network modelling of the geochemical reactions responsible for acid mine drainage emanating from the Witwatersrand tailings facilities. South African Journal of Geology, 123, 357–368.

Process network modelling is a tool that can be used to study interactive and complex networks of geochemical processes.

0068. Iyiola, A.O. & Asiedu, B. (2020). Benthic macro-invertebrates as indicators of water quality in Ogunpa River, South-Western Nigeria. West African Journal of Applied Ecology, 28(1), 85–95.

The abundance of pollution tolerant benthic macro-invertebrate L. truncatula indicated that the river is under pollution stress.

0069. Jensen, F.P., Dinesen, L., Hansen, L.A., Moyer, D.C., & Mulungu, E.A. (2020). Bird species richness in the montane evergreen forests of the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. Scopus: Journal of East African Ornithology, 40(2), 39–49.

White-winged Apalis, Dapple-throat, Iringa Akalat, and Usambara Weaver are likely present.

0070. Kabanda, T. (2020). GIS modeling of flooding exposure in Dar es Salaam coastal areas. African Geographical Review, 39, 134–143.

Flooding incidences are intensified by drainage channels blocked with garbage hampering the movement of wastewater.

0071. Kemp, L.V. & Ezzey, P.F. (2020). Report of suspected kidnapping in cooperative breeding Southern Ground- Hornbill in South Africa with consequences for conservation reintroductions. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 91, 91–93.

This kidnapping was driven by the group to weaken and destabilize a neighboring group.

0072. Kiage, L.M., Howey, M., Hartter, J., & Palace, M. (2020). A late Holocene record of human impacts on tropical environments from non-pollen palynomorphs, Albertine Rift, western Uganda. Quaternary Research, 93, 172–186.

Microscopic charcoal, elemental geochemistry, and fungal spores support the occurrence of anthropogenic forest disturbance in the Albertine Rift.

0073. Lin, B., Foxfoot, I.R., Miller, C.M., Venkatamaran, V.V., …, Fashing, P.J. (2020). Leopard predation on gelada monkeys at Guassa, Ethiopia. American Journal of Primatology, 82, e23098.

In encounters with leopards, geladas typically gave alarm calls, reduced interindividual distances, and fled towards or remained at their sleeping cliffs.

0074. Majolo, B., Vizioli, A.d., Martínez-Íñigo, L., & Lehmann, J. (2020). Effect of group size and individual characteristics on intergroup encounters in primates. International Journal of Primatology, 41, 325–341.

Age, dominance rank, and sex are not strong predictors of aggression during intergroup encounters.

0075. Marcaigh, F.Ó., Raveloson, B.A., Rakotomanga, G., Ratianarivo, A.N., …, Martin, T.E. (2020). The avifauna of Ankobohobo Wetland, a neglected important bird area in northwestern Madagascar. Scopus: Journal of East African Ornithology, 40(2), 18–28.

We report observed threats to the wetlands, particularly with regards to the breeding Haliaeetus vociferoides population.

0076. Moshood, I., Ikechukwu, U., & Mazibuko, N. (2019). Eminent domain, “public use”, and mineral resource exploitation in South Africa. African Studies Quarterly, 19(1), 1–22.

We extend the theoretical and conceptual argument of “public-use” discourse of eminent domain to some mineral-rich communities.

0077. Pabi, O., Adu-Asare, A., & Ofori, B.D. (2020). Linking optical SPOT and unmanned aerial vehicle data for a rapid biomass estimation in a forest-savanna transitional zone of Ghana. West African Journal of Applied Ecology, 28(1), 1–20.

There was no statistically significant difference between UAV and manual tree height measurements.

0078. Pomeroy, D., Dodman, T., Kibuule, M., Kigoolo, S., …, Ochanda, D. (2020). Waterbirds of the Murchison Falls–Albert Delta Wetland System, an important Ramsar site. Scopus: Journal of East African Ornithology, 40(2), 50–59.

We recorded 78 waterbird species. The site regularly supports three globally and seven nationally threatened species.

0079. Samuni, L., Mielke, A., Preis, A., Crockford, C., & Wittig, R.M. (2020). Intergroup competition enhances chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in-group cohesion. International Journal of Primatology, 41, 342–362.

Increased in-group cohesion in chimpanzees likely reduces potential costs of intergroup competition engagement.

0080. Summay, G.W., Lyakurwa, K.E., Lyakurwa, J.V., Werema, C., …, Okick, R.E. (2019). The reptiles of Mkomazi National Park, Tanzania: An updated checklist with some aspects of biogeography. Journal of East African Natural History, 108, 81–98.

The Mkomazi National Park was found to be the most discordant in species composition from the contiguous Pare and Usambara mountains.

0081. Teichroeb, J.A., Stead, S.M., Edwards, P.D., Landry, F., …, Boonstra, R. (2020). Anogenital distance as a measure of male competitive ability in Rwenzori Angolan colobus. American Journal of Primatology, 82, e23111.

Anogenital distance also did not correlate overall with mean fecal androgen metabolites in multimale/multifemale units.

0082. Venable, E.M., Machanda, Z., Hagberg, L., Lucore, J., …, Wrangham, R. (2020). Wood and meat as complementary sources of sodium for Kanyawara chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 172, 41–47.

We suggest that the need for sodium is a motivating reason for chimpanzees to consume both meat and wood.

0083. Wasserman, J., Claassens, L., & Adams, J.B. (2020). Mapping subtidal estuarine habitats with a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV). African Journal of Marine Science, 42, 123–128.

We revealed the previously unknown distribution of the invasive red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis.

0084. Yemane, D., Kirkman, S.P., & Samaai, T. (2020). Use of openly available occurrence data to generate biodiversity maps within the South African EEZ. African Journal of Marine Science, 42, 109–121.

Diodiversity maps were generated for three generic functional groups within the exclusive economic zone of South Africa: zooplankton, fishes and benthos.

0085. Young, C., Fritz, H., Smithwick, E.A.H., & Venter, J.A. (2020). The landscape-scale drivers of herbivore assemblage distribution on the central basalt plains of Kruger National Park. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 36, 13–28.

We found broad-scale descriptions of interactions between forage requirements and water availability across a set of species which differ in functional traits.

0086. Zelelew, S.A., Nowald, G., Archibald, G., Tadele, H., …, Gutema, T.M. (2020). Distribution and population estimates of four crane species in Ethiopia: A global crane hotspot facing increasing threats. Scopus: Journal of East African Ornithology, 40(2), 1–17.

Black-crowned and Wattled Cranes are resident species, while Common Grus grus and Demoiselle cranes are migrants.

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

0087. Abrar, S., Seid, A., & Dejene, M. (2020). Integrated management of Meloidogyne incognita in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) through botanical and intercropping. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 15(4), 492–501.

A combination of lantana leaf extract and tomato-mustard intercropping reduced the nematode population.

0088. Agwu, G.A., Agbanike, T., Uwajumogu, N., & Ogbuagu, R.A. (2020). How do firms combine different types of innovation? A multivariate probit approach. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 12, 173–185.

We are the first to provide a snapshot of innovation behaviors of firms operating in Africa.

0089. Akanle, O. & Omotayo, A. (2020). Youth, unemployment and incubation hubs in Southwest Nigeria. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 12, 165–172.

What is the impact of incubation hubs for youths and the state of unemployment in the nation?

0090. Ashukem, J.-C.N. (2020). The SDGs and the bio-economy: Fostering land-grabbing in Africa. Review of African Political Economy, 47(164), 275–290.

Sub-Saharan Africa is perceived as a steady supplier of land for the production of food and non-food crops.

0091. Atta-Darkwa, T., Asomaning, S.K., Agbeshie, A.A., Danso, E.O., …, Owusu, P.A. (2020). Assessment of physicochemical properties of Besease wetland soils, Ghana. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 15(4), 509–523.

We found an increased water storage under rice cultivation in the studied wetland.

0092. Baiden, P., Boateng, G.O., Dako-Gyeke, M., Acolatse, C.K., & Peters, K.E. (2020). Examining the effects of household food insecurity on school absenteeism among Junior High School students: Findings from the 2012 Ghana global school-based student health survey. African Geographical Review, 39, 107–119.

Addressing both distal and structural drivers of food insecurity is critical in reducing school absenteeism.

0093. Breytenbach, N., Grobler, J.P., & Bindeman, H. (2020). Performance trait analysis and genetic diversity of the SA Boerperd. South African Journal of Animal Science, 50, 99–108.

Analysis of the population structure revealed that two distinct founder populations have contributed to the present-day breed.

0094. Buss, D., Katz-Lavigne, S., Aluoka, O., & Alma, E. (2020). “Remember the women of Osiri”: Women and gender in artisanal and small-scale mining in Migori County, Kenya. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 54, 177–195.

Understandings of women’s roles in artisanal and small-scale mining, and of the importance of gender in structuring those livelihoods, remain limited.

0095. Callaghan, C.W. (2020). The ‘death of innovation’ paradox, R&D and the scientific potential of crowdsourcing. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 12, 141–150.

Crowdsourcing may be key to achieving scale effects in research and development.

0096. Çetingül, I.S., Gültepe, E.E., Rahman, A., Iqbal, A., …, Bayram, I. (2020). Pistacia terebinthus as a dietary supplement for laying hens. South African Journal of Animal Science, 50, 38–46.

Dietary terebinth seed supplementation generated positive effects on egg production and egg weight.

0097. Chikulo, S., Hebinck, P., & Kinsey, B. (2020). ‘Mbare Musika is ours’: An analysis of a fresh produce market in Zimbabwe. African Affairs, 119(476), 311–337.

We discuss interactions among farmers and retailers, vendors, transporters, intermediaries, officials, and customers, in creating and sustaining a specific enduring market.

0098. Chimhete, N. (2020). Prosperity in a crisis economy: The Nyamongo gold boom, Tanzania, 1970s–1993. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 572–589.

The gold riches of Nyamongo remained largely “local” because the gold economy developed as a clan-based enclave economy.

0099. Damsere, J.D., Boateng, M., Amoah, K.O., Frimpong, Y.O., & Okai, D.B. (2020). The response of pigs to diets containing varying levels of cocoa placenta meal (CPM) supplemented with an exogenous enzyme complex. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 15(4), 538–545.

Dietary inclusion levels up to 20% CPM + enzyme can be fed to growing-finishing pigs without any detrimental effects.

0100. Danielsen, K. & Hinton, J. (2020). A social relations of gender analysis of artisanal and small-scale mining in Africa’s Great Lakes Region. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 54, 17–36.

We demonstrate how gender inequalities can be and are being challenged by women miners.

0101. De Gasperín, I., Vicente, J.G., Pinos-Rodriguez, J., Montiel, F., …, Isabel, B. (2020). Effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids in diets fed to sows on fatty acids in brain, muscle and skin of their piglets. South African Journal of Animal Science, 50, 47–54.

The fatty acid profiles in muscle and skin of the piglets were affected by the diet of the sows.

0102. Devereux, S. (2020). Violations of farm workers’ labour rights in post-apartheid South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 37, 382–404.

Trade unions have failed to represent farm workers and hold farmers and government to account.

0103. Elmulthum, N.A., Abass, A.S., & Emam, A.A. (2020). Vertical versus horizontal expansion of food security crops in Sudan: A causality analysis of 1961–2017. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 15(4), 502–508.

Our research recommends emphasis on vertical expansion to develop plans for sustainable agriculture in Sudan.

0104. Elum, Z.A. & Mjimba, V. (2020). Potential and challenges of renewable energy development in promoting a green economy in Nigeria. Africa Review, 12, 172–191.

Public and private policy coherence is critical for developing an economically and technically viable renewable energy sub-sector.

0105. Feder, J. & Yu, D. (2020). Employed yet poor: Low-wage employment and working poverty in South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 37, 363–381.

We examined low-wage employment, working poverty, and low-wage poverty.

0106. Frimpong-Manso, E., Nartey, E.K., Adjadeh, T.A., & Darko, D.A. (2020). Efficacy of corncob and rice husk biochar as liming agent and phosphorus source for growth of soybean in two acid soils. West African Journal of Applied Ecology, 28(1), 113–143.

Biochar produced from agricultural waste has high concentration of basic cations and phosphorus that could be exploited for use as liming material.

0107. Hajdu, F., Neves, D., & Granlund, S. (2020). Changing livelihoods in rural Eastern Cape, South Africa (2002–2016): Diminishing employment and expanding social protection. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 743–772.

Changes in rural dwellers’ livelihoods include agrarian change, rural dispossession, inequality and unemployment.

0108. Hearn, B. & Piesse, J. (2020). A reassessment of stock market integration in SADC: The case of Namibia. Development Southern Africa, 37, 501–518.

The current policy initiatives of regional integration impose costs on smaller, less developed exchanges.

0109. Ibrahim, A.F., Rutherford, B., & Buss, D. (2020). Gendered “choices” in Sierra Leone: Women in artisanal mining in Tonkolili District. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 54, 157–176.

State interventions are enmeshed in the pre-existing social relations, dependency ties and governance relations in gold mining sites.

0110. Kanani, Z. & Mohammed, S.E.T. (2020). Initiation of callus from different genotypes of Sorghum bicolor L. Moench. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 15(4), 546–552.

The initiated calluses differed morphologically and in their growth rates.

0111. Kelley, S. (2020). Enslavement in upper Guinea during the era of the transatlantic slave trade: Biographical perspectives. African Economic History, 48(1), 46–73.

I studied the growing significance of children in local slavery during the waning years of the transatlantic trade.

0112. Koot, S., Ingram, V.J., & Bijsterbosch, M. (2020). State paternalism and institutional degradation at Treesleeper Eco-camp: Community-based tourism and the loss of sovereignty among Bushmen in Namibia. Development Southern Africa, 37, 432–445.

Community control, ownership and participation are key factors for successful community-based tourism projects.

0113. Kyomuhendo, P., Tenywa, M.M., Semalulu, O., Lenssen, A., …, Kybogola, S. (2020). Lime requirements for bean production on two contrasting soils of Lake Victoria Crescent agro-ecological zone. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 15(4), 531–537.

Plant breeding programs should select or develop germplasm tolerant to Al toxicity and/or low soil available phosphorus.

0114. LaRocco, A.A. (2020). Botswana’s hunting ban and the transformation of game-meat cultures, economies and ecologies. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 723–741.

Cattle production and beef consumption are promoted as ‘modern’ in contrast to supposedly ‘primitive’ hunting practices.

0115. Lawana, N., Booysen, F., Tsegaye, A., Kapingura, F.M., & Hongoro, C. (2020). Lifestyle risk factors, non-communicable diseases and labour force participation in South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 37, 446–461.

We found a significant indirect impact of obesity, physical activity and alcohol consumption on labor force participation.

0116. Louw, C. & Nieuwenhuizen, C. (2020). Digitalization strategies for SMEs: A cost vs. skill approach for website development. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 12, 195–202.

In the age of the digital revolution, websites are a critical component in establishing an online organizational presence.

0117. Łukasiewicz, M., Łozicki, A., Casey, N.H., Chwalibog, A., …, Sawosz, E. (2020). Effect of zinc nanoparticles on embryo and chicken growth, and the content of zinc in tissues and faeces. South African Journal of Animal Science, 50, 109–119.

The replacement of ZnO with NanoZnO had no negative effects on chicken growth.

0118. Mabuza, B. & van Huyssteen, C.W. (2020). Effect of added organic substrates on reduction in a soil from the Maputaland Coastal Plain. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 108–115.

The soils of the Maputaland Coastal Plain do not have enough residual organic carbon to support reduction.

0119. Mackett, O. (2019). Social grants as a tool for poverty reduction in South Africa? A longitudinal analysis using the NIDS Survey. African Studies Quarterly, 19(1), 41–64.

The characteristics of households with old-age pension recipients may be conducive to positive labor market and poverty outcomes.

0120. Martin, V., Alary, V., Daburon, A., Ali, A., …, Dutilly, C. (2019). Food security, poverty and diversification: Relative contribution of livestock activities on small-scale farms in Egypt. African Studies Quarterly, 19(1), 65–88.

New job opportunities and diversification should be developed along the agro-food value chain process.

0121. Matli, W. & Goepe, M. (2020). Capitalizing on digital literacy skills for capacity development of people who are not in education, employment or training in South Africa. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 12, 129–139.

Digital literacy is one of the skills which remains critical for work seekers to increase their chances of achieving employment.

0122. Mavilia, R. & Pisani, R. (2020). Blockchain and catching-up in developing countries: The case of financial inclusion in Africa. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 12, 151–163.

We discuss potential blockchain solutions to reduce the current level of financial exclusion.

0123. Mbah, D.A., Tawah, C.L., & Guewo-Fokeng, M. (2019). Genetic modification of animals: Potential benefits and concerns. Journal of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences, 15, 163–174.

Unique identifiers are established to track genetic modified animals and their products in the food chain.

0124. Motema, T., Kotzé, E., Loke, P.F., & du Preez, C.C. (2020). Response of soil organic matter indices and fractions after 37 years of wheat production management practices in semi-arid South Africa. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 136–143.

Soil organic matter of this semi-arid region could be improved by tillage practices that encourage accumulation of crop residues.

0125. Ndonga, D., Laryea, E., & Chaponda, M. (2020). Assessing the potential impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area on least developed countries: A case study of Malawi. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 773–792.

We examine Malawi’s intra-African trade position in terms of its export potential and the likely impact of the AfCFTA agreement.

0126. Needham, T., van Zyl, K., & Hoffman, L.C. (2020). Correlations between PORCUS classification and androstenone in boars, and effects of cooking methods thereon. South African Journal of Animal Science, 50, 120–128.

The PORCUS classification system cannot be used reliably to estimate the intramuscular fat content or androstenone concentration.

0127. Njimated, G.F. & Yakum, I.M. (2019). Natural resources as agents of economic emergence: Evidence from Cameroon. Journal of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences, 15, 111–131.

Total natural resources rents can actually pave the way for sustainable growth and development.

0128. Nsanzimana, B., Nkundibiza, A.P., & Mwambarangwe, P. (2020). Promoting gender equality in the Rwandan ASM: Efforts and obstacles. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 54, 119–138.

Various efforts were engaged by mining and gender stakeholders to promote gender equality in mining, though obstacles persist.

0129. Ntshwanti, M. & Creamer, K. (2020). Externally constrained growth: Testing the applicability of Thirlwall’s law in South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 37, 405–417.

Growth in the South African economy can be shown to be trade balance constrained.

0130. Nyamekye, A.B., Dewulf, A., Van Slobbe, E., & Termeer, K. (2020). Information systems and actionable knowledge creation in rice-farming systems in Northern Ghana. African Geographical Review, 39, 144–161.

Systems integration and local actor participation are essential for actionable knowledge creation in information systems.

0131. Obua, T., Nabasirye, M., Namara, M., Tusiime, G., …, Tukamuhabwa, P. (2020). Yield stability of tropical soybean genotypes in selected agro-ecologies in Uganda. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 168–173.

Bulindi was the most discriminating and representative test environment for soybean production in Uganda.

0132. Okuyama, L.A., Caramori, P.H., & Kohli, M.M. (2020). New microchondrometer to measure hectoliter weight in small samples of wheat. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 15(4), 524–530.

The 15.30 ml microchondrometer will help to discard unwanted genotypes early in the selection process.

0133. Olaniyi, B.A. (2020). A comparative study of the Nigerian and the Chinese dreams. Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 17(4), 87–106.

With systematic planning, a strong vision, and proper governance most nations can achieve national rejuvenation and economic development.

0134. Piek, M. & von Fintel, D. (2020). Sectoral minimum wages in South Africa: Disemployment by firm size and trade exposure. Development Southern Africa, 37, 462–482.

Firms exposed to international markets cannot easily increase prices when their employees’ wages increase.

0135. Pinto, C.S., Magalhães, A.L.R., Teodoro, A.L., Gois, G.C., & Lima, I.E. (2020). Potential alternative feed sources for ruminant feeding from the biodiesel production chain by-products. South African Journal of Animal Science, 50, 69–77.

Custard apple seed cake could provide greater nutrient levels when supplied in ruminant diets compared to soursop and passion fruit seed cakes.

0136. Ravhuhali, K.E., Mlambo, V., Beyene, T.S., & Palamuleni, L.G. (2020). Effects of soil type on density of trees and nutritive value of tree leaves in selected communal areas of South Africa. South African Journal of Animal Science, 50, 88–98.

Ziziphus mucronata and Grewia flava leaves have potential as protein supplements for ruminants owing to their high crude protein content.

0137. Reese, T.M. (2020). The barriers to conversion: The Rev. Philip Quaque, company pay, and the economy of Cape Coast, 1766–1816. African Economic History, 48(1), 1–19.

The life of Rev. Philip Quaque with his lack of missionary success provides insight into the workings of a trade enclave.

0138. Rhoda, R., Bester, C., Motsa, M., Joubert, M., …, Lyons, C.-L. (2020). Efficacy and profitability of weed management systems for honeybush in South Africa. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 130–135.

Synthetic woven mulch in combination with inter-row weeding resulted in higher yield, larger plants, and reduced weed biomass.

0139. Rutherford, B. & Chemane-Chilemba, L. (2020). The governance of artisanal and small-scale mining in Manica District, Mozambique: Implications for women’s livelihoods. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 54, 139–156.

We examine both gendered practices and authority relations in different types of gold mining (alluvial and reef).

0140. Saul, H., Booyse, M., & Swanepoel, P.A. (2020). A comparison of experimental designs for cultivar evaluations. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 144–151.

We recommend the use of Latinized row-column designs in preference to randomised complete block design in variety trials.

0141. Scholvin, S. (2020). Articulating the regional economy: Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg as gateways to Africa. African Geographical Review, 39, 162–174.

Cites are vital for value chains. Serving as ‘gateways’, they interlink hinterland locations.

0142. Sebina-Zziwa, A. & Kibombo, R. (2020). Licensing of artisanal mining on private land in Uganda: Social and economic implications for female spouses and women entrepreneurs. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 54, 101–117.

The rights of women in artisanal mining are subjugated to social cultural practices, contradictory laws regarding women’s land rights, and poor law enforcement.

0143. Slyomovics, S. (2020). Dismantling a world: France’s monumental military heritage in Sidi-Bel-Abbès, Algeria. The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 772–796.

I discuss how Algeria addresses the enduring presence of statues, steles, monuments, and other effigies of the colonial past.

0144. Stewart, J., Kibombo, R., & Rankin, L.P. (2020). Gendered livelihoods in the artisanal mining sector in the Great Lakes Region. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 54, 37–56.

Men earn more both at mine sites and at activities not conducted at mine sites.

0145. Tibugari, H., Chiduza, C., & Mashingaidze, A.B. (2020). Farmer knowledge, attitude and practices on sorghum allelopathy in five sorghum producing districts of Zimbabwe. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 152–159.

Compounds other than sorgoleone contributed to the suspected allelopathic effects.

0146. Tibugari, H., Chiduza, C., Mashingaidze, A.B., & Mabasa, S. (2020). High sorgoleone autotoxicity in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) varieties that produce high sorgoleone content. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 160–167.

Sorghum autotoxicity can inhibit germination and growth, resulting in low plant densities and reduced crop productivity.

0147. van der Westhuizen, M.M., Oosterhuis, D.M., Berner, J.M., & Boogaers, N. (2020). Chlorophyll a fluorescence as an indicator of heat stress in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 116–119.

A decrease in the maximum quantum yield indicates damage to the photosynthetic apparatus of the plants.

0148. van Niekerk, A.J. (2020). Towards inclusive growth in Africa. Development Southern Africa, 37, 519–533.

I discuss a reinterpretation of genuine growth and how inclusivity criteria can be used to achieve it.

0149. Vitturini, E. (2020). The Gaboye of Somaliland: Transformations and historical continuities of the labour exploitation and marginalisation of hereditary groups of occupational specialists. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 473–491.

I study the collapse of the postcolonial state, contemporary forms of transnational mobility, and the re-organisation of global economic networks.

0150. Wang, Q., Wang, J., Qi, R.L., Qiu, X.Y., …, Huang, J.X. (2020). Naringin supplementation affects performance, carcass traits, meat quality and oxidative stability of finishing pigs. South African Journal of Animal Science, 50, 78–87.

Naringin significantly increased superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and total anti-oxidative capacity in meat.

Ethnohistory

0151. Adelusi-Adeluyi, A. (2020). “Africa for the Africans?”– Mapmaking, Lagos, and the colonial Archive. History in Africa, 47, 275–296.

European colonial maps can be used to analyze the significance of changing urban spatial relationships in 1860s Lagos.

0152. Balakrishnan, S. (2020). Imperial policing and the antinomies of power in early colonial Ghana. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 173–194.

Police wanted to escape the colonial state as much as the convicts under their care.

0153. Çelik, Z. (2020). Colonial statues and their afterlives. The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 711–726.

I show how Algerians and Tunisians struggled to deal with their memories of French rule.

0154. el Habib Benkoula, S.M. (2020). Thinking about the ‘historical heritage’: A question of incoherence. The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 697–710.

Sidi El Houari includes many very dilapidated neighborhoods in various states of ruin.

0155. El Qadim, N. (2020). Born digital? Digitization and the birth of the Moroccan National Archives. History in Africa, 47, 195–218.

Digitization has served as a way of performing modernity through technology and international standards.

0156. Elamin, W. & Mason-Jones, A.J. (2020). Female genital mutilation/cutting: A systematic review and meta-ethnography exploring women’s views of why it exists and persists. International Journal of Sexual Health, 32, 1–21.

This practice was considered a ‘rite of passage’ which was enforced to curb the expression of their sexuality.

0157. Feinberg, H.M. (2020). ‘We met. We talked. But did they listen?’ Black South African leaders’ participation in African-White conferences, 1922–1933. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 97–122.

I identified the dominant themes Africans pursued during free-wheeling debates, such as land ownership, unequal justice, segregation, and education funding.

0158. Ignatov, A. (2020). Agurumyela's art of connection: Christopher Azaare's project of curating Gurensi history and culture. Africa, 90, 649–666.

Azaare's project allows us to recognize the ubiquitous existence of a vibrant strand of African intellectual creativity.

0159. Josephy, S. (2020). Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris: Reflections on photographing Hermann Kallenbach's Johannesburg through the lens of Walter Benjamin's Arcades in the age of digital reproduction. Critical African Studies, 12, 186–202.

This visual essay shows Kallenbach's work can act as a lens showing the relationship between early and present Johannesburg.

0160. Keese, A. & Owabira, B.I. (2020). Rescuing, interpreting, and, eventually, digitizing regional postcolonial archives: Endangered archives and research in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo. History in Africa, 47, 143–165.

The work focussed on the finding and reorganizing of an extremely valuable but dispersed post-independence archive.

0161. Kelly, J.E. & Badsha, O. (2020). Teaching South African history in the digital age: Collaboration, pedagogy, and popularizing history. History in Africa, 47, 297–325.

We suggest a model for collaborative and publicly-engaged scholarship demonstrating the potential of transnational projects.

0162. Lawrance, B.N., Corcoran, E.B., & Hooper, L. (2020). Asylum courts, transnational petitioning, and digital dispersal in Africa. History in Africa, 47, 243–267.

Digital record keeping may improve accessibility, but only if researchers are familiar with the technology and archival methods.

0163. Llewellyn, M.P. & Rider, T.C. (2020). Dennis Brutus and the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee in exile, 1966–1970. South African Historical Journal, 72, 246–271.

Brutus skilfully tethered the issue of racism in South African sport to broader discussions of human rights.

0164. Losch, F. (2020). Preserving public broadcasting archives in the digital era: Circulatory stories and technologies, the digital turn, and the return of the past in West Africa. History in Africa, 47, 219–241.

I emphasize the historiographical value of the archives as sources and traces and the processes they undergo.

0165. Ouagueni, Y. (2020). The birth of the notion of patrimoine (through the generations) in Algeria. The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 753–770.

I propose a phenomenological view of Algeria using a theoretical model of decoding history by examining the formation and successive transformations.

0166. Owino, M. & Souther, J.M. (2020). “Curating Kisumu” and “Curating East Africa:” Academic collaboration and public engagement in the digital age. History in Africa, 47, 327–357.

The projects examined how the cellphone revolution could reshape the production and dissemination of knowledge about important sites and events.

0167. Snyders, H. (2019). “Our traditional game?” Klawerjas, subaltern heritage and marginal community in the Western Cape. South African Journal of Cultural History, 33(2), 25–44.

Klawerjas is a Dutch card game closely associated with expatriate and minority communities.

0168. Sotiropoulos, K. (2020). James and Rose Aggrey and the Black Atlantic gestations of African nationalism. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 239–264.

Rose and James were descendants of slave trading who bonded against European colonialism and American Jim Crow.

0169. Stanley, L. (2020). Harriet Townsend and networks of settler women in business in the Eastern Cape, 1840–1848. South African Historical Journal, 72, 199–221.

The settler women in the Townsend networks led significant busy economic and business lives.

0170. Stockreiter, E.E. (2020). Preserving and digitizing Djenné’s manuscript collections: The politics of space and agency in central Mali. History in Africa, 47, 119–142.

The future of historical research is mostly contingent on the availability of digital archives.

0171. van Vollenhoven, A.C. (2019). ‘n Ondersoek na die voetpaadjies in die tuin van die Melrosehuismuseum, Pretoria. South African Journal of Cultural History, 33(2), 98–119. [In Africaans]

Historical information, mainly photographs, was applied to gain insight into the construction of the footpaths.

0172. Wilson, R.T. (2020). The role of elephants as military pack animals in the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–1868. African Journal of History and Culture, 12(2), 49–59.

Loads for the elephants varied in the range 600 to 730 kg for those transporting 12-lb breech loading Armstrong guns and 800 to 840 kg for those carrying 8-inch mortars.

0173. Witz, L. (2020). The Arcades’ affinities: Excursions into the corners and crowds of Johannesburg’s pasts. Critical African Studies, 12, 171–185.

I offer some notes as half a text; observations, images, reflections and guides to the city.

Kinship (Family organization, marriage)

0174. Babic, A., Gillis, N., & Hansez, I. (2020). Work-to-family interface and well-being: The role of workload, emotional load, support and recognition from supervisors. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 46, a1628.

Supervisors can reduce work-to-family conflict by promoting a supportive work environment and reducing the workload.

0175. Dlali, M. & Mutsvairo, J. (2020). Compliance-gaining messages between married Shona couples. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 148–156.

We focus on persuasion strategies between a married Shona couple and establish their degree of directness and indirectness.

0176. Lempereur, S. (2020). A path from slavery to freedom: The case of the Ologoudou family in southern Benin. African Economic History, 48(1), 20–45.

Domestic slaves may have had the capacity to take their fate into their own hands.

0177. Luruli, K., Mostert, K., & Jacobs, M. (2020). Testing a structural model for study demands and resources, study engagement and well-being of first-year university students. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 179–186.

Students who perceived social support from friends and family and who self-reported high levels of autonomy, had psychological well-being.

0178. Mulaudzi, P.A. (2020). The role of music and language in reflecting beliefs in fertility and marriage. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 171–178.

Infertility or the failure to bear a child constitutes not only a personal crisis for a woman, but a tragedy.

0179. Nsibandze, B.S., Downing, C., Poggenpoel, M., & Myburgh, C.P.H. (2020). Experiences of grandmothers caring for female adolescents living with HIV in rural Manzini, Eswatini: A caregiver stress model perspective. African Journal of AIDS Research, 19, 123–134.

Family, financial and psychological support should be made available for grandmothers to lighten the duty of caregiving.

0180. Nwafor, C.E., Ibeagha, P.N., Anazonwu, C.O., & Obi-Nwosu, H. (2020). Do callous-unemotional traits mediate the effect of family competence on bullying? South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 239–249.

Callous-unemotional traits could regulate the effect of family competence on bullying.

0181. Onyango-Ouma, W. & Aagaard-Hansen, J. (2020). Dholuo kincepts in Western Kenya. Studies in African Linguistics, 49, 305–321.

The kincepts for consanguine as well as affine relatives in up to three ascending and five descending generations are described.

0182. Owoahene-Acheampong, S. & Prempeh, C. (2019). Interfaith marriages: The case of Muslims and Christians in contemporary Zongo communities in Accra. African Studies Quarterly, 19(1), 23–40.

More frequent and tolerated marriages between Muslims and Christians here seem doubtful.

0183. Salifu, J. (2020). Kinship and gendered economic conduct in matrilineal Offinso, Ghana. Africa, 90, 683–700.

Women's strong allegiance to their matrilineage is mirrored in their economic conduct.

0184. Schneider, L.T. (2020). Elders and transactional relationships in Sierra Leone: Rethinking synchronic approaches. Africa, 90, 701–720.

There has been a shift from kin-based rural hierarchies, where agreement relationships were carefully concealed, to larger, more dynamic urban networks.

Linguistics

0185. Abdoulaye, M.L., Barmou, S., & Bida, S.S. (2020). The one-term predication for deictic identification in Hausa. Studies in African Linguistics, 49, 187–212.

Copula nee/cee is the sentence predicate in one-term deictic identification and is hence comparable to other one-term non-verbal predicates in Hausa.

0186. Abubakari, H. (2020). The syntax and semantics of relative clauses in Kusaal. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 8(2), 27–62.

I present a comprehensive discussion on the various elements, functions, and formations of Kusaal relative clauses.

0187. Adegbite, A. (2020). Bilingualism and the psychology of colors. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 8(2), 107–126.

Language attitude can be largely presumed upon cognitive perception of a language based on influencing societal factors.

0188. Adejuwon, A.O. (2020). Discourse intonation patterns in the non-interrogative utterances of selected educated Nigerian speakers of English. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 8(2), 86–106.

The participants’ non-interrogative tone-unit intonation patterns largely ran counter to discourse intonation.

0189. Akumbu, P.W. (2019). Legitimizing the development and use of Cameroon’s national languages: Lessons from COVID–19. Journal of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences, 15, 193–206.

I highlight the necessity to develop and use national languages in official communication when transmitting health related information.

0190. Andersen, T. (2020). Multiple adnominal modification in Dinka chaining construct states. Studies in African Linguistics, 49, 273–304.

Multiple adnominal modification in Dinka may thus result in a chain of construct states.

0191. Appah, C.K.I. (2020). A survey of exocentric compounds in three Kwa languages: Akan, Ewe and Ga. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 8(2), 1–26.

All three languages have metaphorical and location bahuvrihi compounds.

0192. Berghoff, R. (2020). Evaluativity in the Afrikaans equative and excessive constructions. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51(2), 25–48.

Afrikaans has two degree modifiers translatable as “much,” “many,” or “a lot,” namely veel and baie.

0193. Bisilki, A. & Yakpo, K. (2020). Adjectives in Likpakpaln (Konkomba): Structural and areal-typological aspects. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51(2), 3–24.

We identify three types of adjectives, distinguishable from nouns and verbs on morpho-syntactic and semantic grounds.

0194. Casaretto, A., Dimmendaal, G.J., Hellwig, B., Reinöhl, U., & Schneider-Blum, G. (2020). Roots of ergativity in Africa (and beyond). Studies in African Linguistics, 49, 111–140.

We consider the Indo-Iranian language family from where the passive-to-ergative hypothesis presumably spread.

0195. Driessen, M. (2020). Pidgin play: Linguistic subversion on Chinese-run construction sites in Ethiopia. African Affairs, 119(476), 432–451.

Power relations between Chinese management and Ethiopian rank and file are less asymmetrical than often portrayed.

0196. Groenewald, G. (2019). Slaves, Khoikhoi and the genesis of Afrikaans: The development of a historiography, c. 1890s–1990s. South African Journal of Cultural History, 33(2), 1–24.

I trace how various linguists have viewed the role of slaves and Khoikhoi in the genesis of Afrikaans.

0197. Hang’ombe, K., Chabata, E., & Mamvura, Z. (2020). School names in selected districts in Southern Province of Zambia: A critical toponymies perspective. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 8, 88–99.

Place names, mundane as they may appear, are embroiled in the (re)production of unequal social power balance.

0198. Isiaka, A. (2020). A tale of many tongues: Towards conceptualising Nigerian youth languages. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51(2), 68–89.

Nigerian youth language phenomenon has often been labelled, albeit reductively, as Pidgin or Pidgin-based.

0199. Komolafe, O.E. (2020). The place of indigenous languages in the development and teaching of agriculture in Osun State, Nigeria. Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 17(4), 41–52.

Rural farmers and domain professionals do not have adequate knowledge of domain vocabularies.

0200. Letsoalom N. & Rammala, J.R. (2020). Derivation of interrogative words from ‘wh-stems’ in Sepedi. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 164–170.

The use of the particle ke before the wh-stem in a sentence-initial position changes the verbal morphology.

0201. Mini, B.M. & Botha, C.R. (2020). Eastern Cape’s Language-in-Education policy implementation initiative for bilingual education: A historical and onion metaphor conceptualisation. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 139–147.

What model and programme type(s) of bilingual education should the Eastern Cape adopt and why?

0202. Mokobane, M., Pillay, B., Thobejane, N., & Meyer, A. (2020). Delay aversion and immediate choice in Sepedi-speaking primary school children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 250–261.

Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder–combined presentation may face problems with waiting for delayed rewards.

0203. Mthombeni, Z.M. & Ogunnubi, O. (2020). An appraisal of bilingual language policy implementation in South African higher education. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 186–197.

We argue for the need to balance the use of African and non-African languages for teaching and learning.

0204. Ndlovu, E. (2020). Interpretation and translation as disciplines and professions in Zimbabwe: A critical appraisal. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51(2), 129–147.

Language policy, translation, and interpretation in the Zimbabwean context have an intricate and symbiotic relationship.

0205. Ndogo, S. (2019). The city and the comic: Gĩkũyũ comedies in Nairobi. Matatu, 51, 43–63.

The libidinous metaphors and sexual innuendoes in the titles of these lewd comedies that make them attractive to audiences.

0206. Ngubane, N., Ntombela, B.X., & Govender, S. (2020). Translanguaging pedagogy in selected English First Additional Language writing classrooms. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 38, 142–151.

Translanguaging is a useful learning resource in multilingual contexts where the use of English only is an obstacle to effective learning.

0207. Nkuna, P. (2020). Assimilation and glide addition: The case of Xitsonga labiovelar nasal. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 179–185.

The phonological process resulting in labiovelar nasal is not consonantalization with velarization, but rather an assimilation process with glide addition.

0208. Ogunmuyiwa, H.O. & Antia, B.E. (2020). Corruption in a diachronic corpus of Nigerian presidential speeches. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 38, 95–108.

There is a national concern with the impact corruption has on social life, the economy and infrastructure development.

0209. Oji, R.K. (2020). Conceptual blending patterns in selected Nigerian television talk shows. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 8(2), 63–85.

Mental spaces are created in the minds of the participants and are reflected by their use of metaphors.

0210. Ostovar-Namaghi, S.A. & Abbasi-Sosfadi, S. (2020). The missing link in ELT materials: A data-driven conceptualisation. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 38, 129–141.

We imported the transcription of the participants’ perspectives and the emerged codes and categories into MAXQDA.

0211. Payne, D. (2020). The diversity of Maa (Nilotic) adverbs speed, time, modality, intensity and nominal-tense/aspect. Studies in African Linguistics, 49, 160–186.

Maa adjectives and nouns largely overlap in their morphosyntax, but the ability to be modified by certain adverbs distinguishes them.

0212. Pérez-Sabater, C. & Maguelouk-Moffo, G. (2020). Online multilingualism in African written conversations local, global identity and alignment. Studies in African Linguistics, 49, 141–159.

Code-switching to a particular language may function as a distancing technique, an impoliteness strategy towards the player.

0213. Qi, H. & Pan, F. (2020). Lexical bundle variation across moves in abstracts of medical research articles. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 38, 109–128.

There was no significant difference in bundle structures in types across moves, but there was a significant difference in tokens.

0214. Rao, Z. & Liu, F. (2020). An investigation into native and non-native teachers’ assessment of Chinese students’ English writing. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 38, 152–166.

Native English-speaking teachers were more lenient in evaluating the categories of ‘grammar’ and ‘sentence structure.’

0215. Sijadu, Z.P. (2020). Metaphors as strategic manoeuvring in isiXhosa traditional argumentative political discourse. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 198–207.

Traditional leaders employ metaphors to imply the nation as family, the government as parent, and the citizens as children.

0216. Sørensen, M.-L.L. & Witzlack-Makarevich, A. (2020). Clausal complementation in Ruuli (Bantu, JE103). Studies in African Linguistics, 49, 84–110.

We investigate the restrictions imposed by various complement-taking predicate types, e.g. knowledge predicates, phasal predicates and utterance predicates.

0217. Ström, E.-M.B. (2020). The existential in Xhosa in relation to indefiniteness. Studies in African Linguistics, 49, 213–240.

Xhosa makes use of a non-verbal copula in prototypical existentials as well as predicate locatives.

0218. Tanyi, J.N. & Okune, S.T. (2020). Implications of contemporary English usage for teaching and learning of English as a second language. Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 17(4), 19–40.

English is acquired mainly through the school system of formal teaching and learning for communicative and linguistic competence.

0219. Udey, F.U. (2020). Improving organizational culture and workers job satisfaction among university lecturers in Cross River State, Nigeria. Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 17(4), 75–86.

While trying to maintain best standard practices, organizations should ensure they do not infringe on the rights of its employees.

0220. Van der Westhuizen, G.J., Pretorius, A.J.M., & Tillema, H.H. (2020). Learning trouble in mentoring conversations. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 38, 167–181.

Interactions around identifying and resolving trouble could reflect the status of and stance taking by the mentor and the mentee.

0221. Vandeyar, S. & Catalano, T. (2020). Language and identity: Multilingual immigrant learners in South Africa. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51(2), 106–128.

We illustrate ways in which learners must navigate xenophobic trends, exclusive language pedagogies, and language loss.

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

0222. Ajiya, A., Abdullahi, H., & Shuaibu, I.Y. (2020). Clinicopathologic profile of sinonasal neoplasia in Kano, Northwestern Nigeria: A 10-year single-institution experience. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 191–197.

Malignant sinonasal disease is the predominant sinonasal neoplasm in this environment.

0223. Akinola, M.T., Uba, A., Umar, A.F., & Agbo, E.B. (2020). Asymptomatic rotavirus infections among children in Maiduguri, Borno state, Northeast, Nigeria. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 198–202.

Rotavirus can be shed into environments without any signs and symptoms.

0224. Akyeampong, E. (2020). An unusual kind of town: Cattle disease, zoonosis, and public health in Colonial Salaga (Northern Ghana). The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 151–172.

Economic conflict and the irregular cattle herding and slaughtering practices gave entry to cattle diseases as a major public health hazard.

0225. Aluisio, A.R., Perera, S.M., Yam, D., Garbern, S., …, Levine, A.C. (2020). Association between treatment with oral third-generation cephalosporin antibiotics and mortality outcomes in Ebola virus disease: A multinational retrospective cohort study. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 25, 433–441.

Early oral cefixime may be associated with reduced mortality in Ebola and warrants further investigation.

0226. Ayanda, K.A. & Sulyman, D. (2020). Determinants of quality of life in adults living with epilepsy. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 164–169.

The presence of psychiatric disorder, long duration of epilepsy, and being single were predictive of poor quality of life.

0227. Ayoade, M.A. (2020). Spatial and socioeconomic inequalities in under 5 mortality in Nigeria. African Geographical Review, 39, 91–106.

Inequalities were assessed among groups defined by wealth and mother’s level of education.

0228. Bogren, M., Erlandsson, K., Johansson, A., Kalid, M., …, Osman, F. (2020). Health workforce perspectives of barriers inhibiting the provision of quality care in Nepal and Somalia– A qualitative study. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 23, 100481.

Barriers inhibiting the accessibility to quality healthcare included long distances and the uncertain availability of transportation.

0229. Casale, D. (2020). Recovery from stunting in early childhood and subsequent schooling outcomes: Evidence from NIDS Waves 1–5. Development Southern Africa, 37, 483–500.

Children who recovered from stunting in early childhood complete fewer years of schooling compared to non-stunted ones.

0230. Chilunga, F.P., Henneman, P., Requena-Méndez, A., Meeks, K., …, Agyemang, C. (2020). Hyperuricaemia and its association with 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease among migrant and non-migrant African populations: The RODAM study. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 25, 496–505.

Hyperuricemia is associated with elevated 10-year cardiovascular disease risk in both migrants and non-migrants.

0231. Christian, S.N., Mantell, J.E., Romo, M.L., Grov, C., …, Kelvin, E.A. (2020). Applying a social-ecological lens to opinions about HIV self-testing among Kenyan truckers who declined to test: A qualitative study. African Journal of AIDS Research, 19, 147–155.

Our findings will help guide the design of self-testing programs for truckers and other mobile populations.

0232. Ercumen, A., Prottas, C., Harris, A., Dioguardi, A., …, Guiteras, R. (2020). Poultry ownership associated with increased risk of child diarrhea: Cross-sectional evidence from Uganda. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 102, 526–533.

Malnutrition, which can result from diarrhea, is a risk factor for acute lower respiratory infections.

0233. Gijimah, T. & Mutasa, D. (2020). Interrogating the forces that condition media representation of traditional healers in selected Zimbabwean newspapers. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 208–217.

Media representation is affected by colonialism, capitalism and the beliefs and religious orientations of individual journalists.

0234. Ismail, A., Aliyu, A.M., & Ramalan, M.A. (2020). Audit of carotid doppler sonography: Spectrum of findings at a tertiary hospital in northwestern Nigeria. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 170–175.

Most patients had various degrees and types of atheromatous plaques in different segments of the cervical carotid arteries.

0235. King, R., Matovu, J.N., Rujumba, J., Wavamunno, P., …, Musoke, P. (2020). PMTCT Option B+ 2012 to 2018 — Taking stock: Barriers and strategies to improve adherence to Option B+ in urban and rural Uganda. African Journal of AIDS Research, 19, 135–146.

Health workers and participants in the program have a relatively clear understanding of the benefits of adhering to their treatment.

0236. Kinga, B.M., Munteh, P.A., & Wilfred, M.F. (2020). Costs and benefits of early response in the COVID–19 outbreak in Cameroon: DALYs, treatment cost and labour supply lost. Journal of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences, 16, 43–51.

COVID–19 has enormous cost to patients and government and a timely intervention will lead to great benefits.

0237. Kothai, G., Janani, A., Malathy, A.R., & Suthakaran, P.K. (2020). Evaluation of pulse pressure and proportional pulse pressure as predictors of severity among patients having heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 188–190.

Proportional pulse pressure may help to identify heart failure patients who present with low cardiac output, low ejection fraction, and worse prognosis.

0238. Kruger, W., Lebesa, N., Lephalo, K., Mahlangu, D., …, Joubert, G. (2020). HIV-prevention measures on a university campus in South Africa– Perceptions, practices and needs of undergraduate medical students. African Journal of AIDS Research, 19, 156–163.

Medical students received HIV-prevention information as part of their curriculum but this was deemed not to be sufficient.

0239. Loi, U.R., Klingberg-Allvin, M., Gemzell-Danielsson, K., Faxelid, E., …, Makenzius, M. (2020). Contraceptive uptake among post-abortion care-seeking women with unplanned or planned pregnancy in western Kenya. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 23, 100486.

Contraceptive counselling should be systematically offered to all post-abortion care-seeking women.

0240. Manouana, G.P., Lorenz, E., Ngwese, M.M., Moure, P.A.N., …, Adegnika, A.A. (2020). Performance of a rapid diagnostic test for the detection of Cryptosporidium spp. in African children admitted to hospital with diarrhea. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(7), e0008448.

The performance of the CerTest Crypto rapid test varied across different sites.

0241. Mbewe, L. & Govender, E. (2020). Male partners’ influence on women’s acceptance and use of PrEP products across two high HIV-burdened districts in South Africa. African Journal of AIDS Research, 19, 93–100.

Using a culture-centred approach, we discuss perceptions of female-initiated HIV prevention methods among men and women.

0242. Minchella, P.A., Adjé-Touré, C., Zhang, G., Tehe, A., …, Nkengasong, J.N. (2020). Use of pre-ART laboratory screening to identify renal, hepatic and haematological abnormalities in Côte d'Ivoire. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 25, 408–413.

Targeted screening may be a feasible strategy to balance detection of conditions associated with antiretroviral therapy toxicities.

0243. Moseley, W.G. & Battersby, J. (2020). The vulnerability and resilience of African food systems, food security, and nutrition in the context of the COVID–19 pandemic. African Studies Review, 63(3), 449–461.

The disease circulated among Africa’s jet-setting political classes that had spent time in other regions of the world.

0244. Murenzi, G., Kanyabwisha, F., Murangwa, A., Kubwimana, G., …, Castle, P.E. (2020). Twelve-year trend in the prevalence of high-risk human papillomavirus infection among Rwandan women living with HIV. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 222, 74–81.

Prevalence of high-risk human papillomavirus among women living with HIV has decreased, most likely the result of improved immune reconstitution.

0245. Mutale, L.S., Winstead, A.V., Sakubita, P., Kapaya, F., …, Mukonka, V. (2020). Risk and protective factors for cholera deaths during an urban outbreak—Lusaka, Zambia, 2017–2018. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 102, 534–540.

Patients who received immediate oral rehydration solution had lower odds of dying than those who did not.

0246. Ndebele, T. (2020). Neglect and discrimination: A tale of Zimbabwe’s inaccessible public transport system. Journal of African Studies and Development, 12(3), 97–103.

The discrimination of persons with disabilities emanates from within government structures.

0247. Nduagubam, O.C., Chime, O.H., Ndu, I.K., Bisi-Onyemaechi, A., …, Igbokwe, O.O. (2020). Snakebite in children in Nigeria: A comparison of the first aid treatment measures with the World Health Organization's guidelines for management of snakebite in Africa. Annals of African Medicine, 19, 182–187.

Topical application of herbal concoctions to the site of the bite (37.5%) was the most common intervention.

0248. Nyaga, R. (2020). The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Kenya: An investigation into the perceptions of Kenyans toward people living with HIV/AIDS and government programmes. African Journal of AIDS Research, 19, 117–122.

Some participants had confidence in the Kenyan government’s efforts to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

0249. Ojezele, M.O., Mordi, J., & Adedapo, E.A. (2020). Drug repurposing: Cost effectiveness and impact on emerging and neglected diseases. Journal of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences, 16, 3–17.

Finding novel indications for existing drugs can be a useful method of reducing the developmental cycle of drugs.

0250. Parker, W., Schubert, J., Owusu-Ansah, S., Asante-Afari, K., …, Williams, S.E. (2020). Addressing community-level stigma toward key populations: Communication insights from action research in Ghana. African Journal of AIDS Research, 19, 109–116.

Participants realized that causing hurt or harm to others through stigma was not consistent with their religious and cultural values,

0251. Phoba, M.F., Barbé, B., Ley, B., Van Puyvelde, S., …, Jacobs, J. (2020). High genetic similarity between non-typhoidal salmonella isolated from paired blood and stool samples of children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(7), e0008377

Stool excretions of a non-typhoidal salmonella (NTS) isolate from different people have high genetic similarity adding to the evidence of humans as a potential reservoir for NTS.

0252. Ragetlie, R., Sano, Y., Antabe, R., & Luginaah, I. (2020). Married women’s experiences of intimate partner violence and utilization of antenatal health care in Togo. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 23, 100482.

We saw three types of intimate partner violence: physical, emotional, and sexual violence among married women.

0253. Saidi, T., van der Westhuizen, D., Conrad, N., Mutsvangwa, T., & Douglas, T.S. (2020). Learning by solving as a pedagogical approach to inclusive health innovation. Development Southern Africa, 37, 418–431.

We examine learning by solving as a means of capacitating students with skills for inclusive innovation.

0254. Tirfessa, K., Lund, C., Medhin, G., Selamu, M., …, Hanlon, C. (2020). Impact of integrated mental health care on food insecurity of households of people with severe mental illness in a rural African district: A community-based, controlled before–after study. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 25, 414–423.

Improving access to mental health care may reduce food insecurity in households of people with severe mental illness.

0255. Titanji, V.P.K. (2019). Priority research themes in the fight Against the COVID–19 with particular reference to Cameroon. Journal of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences, 15, 209–217.

Cures from traditional herbs should be sought while rigorously applying barrier and social distancing measures to fight or curb COVID–19.

0256. Uldbjerg, C.S., Schramm, S., Kaducu, F.O., Ovuga, E., & Sodemann, M. (2020). Perceived barriers to utilization of antenatal care services in northern Uganda: A qualitative study. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 23, 100464.

We propose efforts should focus on how to ensure a good patient-provider relationship and perceived quality of care.

0257. Yoshioka, E., Giovenco, D., Kuo, C., Underhill, K., …, Operario, D. (2020). “I’m doing this test so I can benefit from PrEP”: Exploring HIV testing barriers/facilitators and implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis among South African adolescents. African Journal of AIDS Research, 19, 101–108.

South African adolescents’ current HIV testing attitudes and behaviours present barriers to intended PrEP implementation in this population.

0258. Zinsou, J.F., Janse, J.J., Honpkehedji, Y.Y., Dejon-Agobé, J.C., …, Guigas, B. (2020). Schistosoma haematobium infection is associated with lower serum cholesterol levels and improved lipid profile in overweight/obese individuals. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(7), e0008464.

Infection with parasitic helminths has been reported to improve insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis.

0259. Zumthurm, T. (2020). The colonial situation in practice: Food at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Lambaréné 1924–65. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 47–70.

I discuss how different foods (plantains, rice, palm-oil, fruit, and fish) were acquired or produced on site.

Political Structure (Process, law)

0260. Achiba, G.A. & Lengoiboni, M.N. (2020). Devolution and the politics of communal tenure reform in Kenya. African Affairs, 119(476), 338–369.

We reflect on the centrality of sustained communal tenure misconceptions, fetishization of formal governance institutions, and the institutional and power configurations.

0261. Adams, S. & Asante, W. (2020). The judiciary and post-election conflict resolution and democratic consolidation in Ghana’s Fourth Republic. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 243–256.

Post-election conflict resolution a very important aspect of the electoral process deserving enormous attention.

0262. Akani, E.C. (2020). The United Nations (UN) and human rights: Challenges and prospects. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 14(3), 91–102.

Knowledge and respect of human rights should be deepened in the curriculum of every level of socialization.

0263. André, M. (2020). From the ‘quarter of the executed’ to the ‘Martyrs’ Quarter’: Political stakes and memorial implications of repatriating the bodies of Mujahidin from France to Algeria. The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 810–826.

I examine the posthumous trajectory of Algerian militants killed in France.

0264. Ashong, T., Sapong, N.Y.B., Smith, V.E., & Ofosu-Mensah, E.A. (2020). Albert Adu Boahen: An agent of change in African historiography and Ghanaian politics. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 213–238.

We discuss history and post-colonial state craft and the ongoing project of decolonizing African historiography.

0265. Banerjee, V. & Holmes, C.E. (2020). Checking trust: Observing social capital at the individual level. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 58, 213–234.

The ratio of ‘check-points’ where individuals are asked to demonstrate adherence to rules, and ‘trust-points’ where such proofs are not required, can better measure social capital.

0266. Banja, M.K. (2020). Centrality of the teacher in mentorship and implementation of school curriculum in Zambia. Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 17(4), 1–18.

While improving teacher education is one option, school-based new teacher mentorship appears more feasible.

0267. Bowman, A. (2020). Parastatals and economic transformation in South Africa: The political economy of the Eskom crisis. African Affairs, 119(476), 395–431.

Eskom’s extreme dysfunctionality results from long-running, and as yet unresolved, contestation of the parastatal and electricity policy.

0268. Brooks, H. (2020). ‘This democracy is killing us’: Perceptions of rights and democracy in the South African Police Service. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 58, 165–187.

Officers conceive of democracy predominantly through the lens of ‘rights.’

0269. Brown, C. (2020). Botswana votes 2019: Two-party competition and the Khama factor. Journal of Southern African Studies. 46, 703–722.

The election reinforces a long-standing trend toward the emergence of a competitive two-party system in Botswana.

0270. Dhlomo, T. & Mawere, P. (2020). Curriculum reform in Zimbabwe: An analysis of early childhood development centers’ state of readiness to embrace the new curriculum. Journal of African Studies and Development, 12(3), 104–114.

The study uncovered that school heads and teachers were putting forth deliberate attempts to concentrate on the new dispensation.

0271. Dye, K. (2020). U.S. diplomacy and the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa: Retreat and engagement on pre-civil war Nigeria. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 195–212.

ANLCA was founded to pursue a link between the African American freedom struggle and a decolonizing Africa.

0272. Gorham, M.V. (2020). Displaying the nation: Museums and nation-building in Tanzania and Kenya. African Studies Review, 63(3), 487–517.

One can better understand the different types of narratives constructed by states with diverging nation-building strategies.

0273. Grant, R., Carmody, P., & Murphy, J.T. (2020). A green transition in South Africa? Sociotechnical experimentation in the Atlantis Special Economic Zone. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 58, 189–211.

Societal and political forces continue to limit its realization, highlighting the immanent, structural realities shaping economic futures.

0274. Hultin, N. & Sommerfelt, T. (2020). Anticipatory tribalism: Accusatory politics in the ‘New Gambia.’ The Journal of Modern African Studies, 58, 257–279.

This politics of accusation involves the contestation and negotiation of moral legitimacy in the political sphere.

0275. Ibhawoh, B. (2020). Refugees, evacuees, and repatriates: Biafran children, UNHCR, and the politics of international humanitarianism in the Nigerian Civil War. African Studies Review, 63(3), 568–592.

Relief agencies evacuated 4,000 children from the conflict zones to Gabon and Côte d’Ivoire to protect them from the conflict.

0276. Iyob, R. (2020). Palimpsestic tales: Hidden “histories” of resistance, militarization, and disenfranchisement of the women of Eritrea. Northeast African Studies, 19(2), 31–63.

The images constructed by ruling elites mask the harsh realities of women's unmet aspirations of democratic citizenship, justice, and equality under the law.

0277. Jemal, B.M. (2020). The depoliticisation of two competing nationalisms and the introduction of democratic Meritopianism as a possible way out for Ethiopia. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 205–220.

If the Ethiopian version of federalism continues within the context of politicization of ethnicity, it will always be a source of ethnic hostility.

0278. Jemirade, D. (2020). Transformations in Nigeria’s foreign policy: From Balewa to Obasanjo. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 14(3), 126–139.

The Mohammed-Obasanjo’s foreign policy was the best in Nigeria from independence in 1960 to 1979.

0279. Kabonga, I. (2020). Reflections on the ‘Zimbabwean crisis 2000–2008’ and the survival strategies: The sustainable livelihoods framework (SLF) analysis. Africa Review, 12, 192–212.

The study of kukiya kiya livelihood strategy is important because it sustained thousands of households as the formal sector collapsed.

0280. Koussa, Z. (2020). The politics of public land dispossession in Egypt: 1975–2011 and beyond. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 58, 235–255.

I focus on the government's legally sanctioned practices of subsidizations, privatizations and evictions.

0281. Krämer, M. (2020). Violence, autochthony, and identity politics in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa): A processual perspective on local political dynamics. African Studies Review, 63(3), 540–559.

Underlying the violence between supporters of hostile political parties are conflicting forms of autochthonous belonging.

0282. Madhuraj, A. (2020). African compliance with state fragility to gain agency in the international system: A case study of Uganda. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 14(3), 103–115.

Speeches, interviews, newspaper articles and donor reports from Uganda will be subject to critical discourse analysis.

0283. Manickam, V. (2020). Ethiopia’s new foreign policy challenges: Scope for India’s engagement. Africa Review, 12, 133–150.

I analyze the steps taken by the government to remove obstacles to peace and development through adopting economic liberalization.

0284. Mbah, D.A., Ayonghe, S.N., Tanya, V.N., Titanji, V.P.K., & Guewo-Fokeng, M. (2019). The Cameroon Academy of Sciences model of evidence-based science advice. Journal of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences, 15, 133–142.

Challenges faced included insufficient financial/human resources, inadequate office space, and weak links with government.

0285. Melchiorre, L. (2020). ‘Under the thumb of the party’: The limits of Tanzanian socialism and the decline of the student left. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 635–654.

The ruling party’s avowed desire was to cultivate socialism among the Tanzanian masses.

0286. Michel, E. (2020). ‘My children, you are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the Devil until you have crossed the bridge’: President Truman, apartheid, and the early Cold War. South African Historical Journal, 72, 272–298.

The White House developed a policy of closer relations with the practitioners of apartheid due to their vehement anti-communism.

0287. Mngomezulu, B.R. (2020). The politics of the coronavirus and its impact on international relations. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 14(3), 116–125.

Political leaders should refrain from making reckless statements and join hands with their citizens if the war against the virus is to be won.

0288. Mushonga, M. & Hudson, H. (2020). Power and resistance: Struggles over organisational transformation and restructuring at the National University of Lesotho in the 21st century. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 655–672.

Power and resistance can manifest themselves through unlikely forms of protest and subversions.

0289. Nugent, P. & Soi, I. (2020). One-stop border posts in East Africa: State encounters of the fourth kind. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 433–454.

One-Stop Border Posts are unlike other border crossings and share some features with airports and seaports in that they have been designed to handle both cargo and people.

0290. Okeke, G.S.M. & Nwali, U. (2020). Campaign funding laws and the political economy of money politics in Nigeria. Review of African Political Economy, 47(164), 238–255.

Mass poverty is largely why attempts to remedy the challenge of money politics by the rule of law have failed.

0291. Okubaghergis, B.G. (2020). The Eritrea-Ethiopia border region (1991–98): People without a border. Northeast African Studies, 19(2), 65–89.

The reactivation of the Eritrean–Ethiopian border had no effect on the preexisting social, cultural, and religious homogeneity.

0292. Pawełczak, M. (2020). The death of Captain Brownrigg and the decline of planters’ rule in Pemba. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 71–96.

We cannot reduce the origins of radical thinking in the Omani community to political and economic factors.

0293. Pearce, J. (2020). History, legitimacy, and Renamo's return to arms in central Mozambique. Africa, 90, 774–795.

Renamo has gained support for its renewed armed actions among civilians in the region.

0294. Pitcher, M.A. (2020). Mozambique elections 2019: Pernicious polarization, democratic decline, and rising authoritarianism. African Affairs, 119(476), 468–486.

Pernicious polarization is contributing to rising authoritarianism in Mozambique.

0295. Rhoads, E.P. & Sutton, R. (2020). The (self) protection of civilians in South Sudan: Popular and community justice practices. African Affairs, 119(476), 370–394.

We aim to deepen understanding of civilian agency and start a conversation with scholars and practitioners about the boundaries of (self) protection.

0296. Rueedi, F. (2020). ‘Our bushes are the houses’: People’s war and the underground during the Insurrectionary Period in the Vaal Triangle, South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 615–633.

I trace the experiences and motivations of one such group in the township of Sebokeng to the south of Johannesburg.

0297. Rwigi, K.E., Manga, E., & Michuki, G. (2020). New wine in an old wineskin? Socio-political context and participatory budgeting in Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 492–511.

We study outcomes on public participation: questions of inclusion, exclusion and quality of participation in participatory budgeting.

0298. Saalfeld, J. (2020). Between grassroots contention and elite manoeuvring: Sub-nationalism in Zanzibar and coastal Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 413–432.

I challenge the notion of two convergent paths of regional separatism grounding in the history of the Sultanate of Zanzibar.

0299. Sanches, E.R. (2020). Transitions to democracy, institutional choices and party system stability: Lessons from small African islands. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 186–204.

A strategic choice of the party law, electoral system and executive system helps structure interactions over time.

0300. Southern, N. (2020). The pitfalls of power sharing in a new democracy: The case of the National Party in South Africa. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 58, 281–299.

Participation in a power-sharing arrangement undermined the National Party's electoral fortunes contributing to its dissolution in 2005.

0301. Thompson, D.K. (2020). Border crimes, extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the racialization of sovereignty in the Ethiopia–British Somaliland borderlands during the 1920s. Africa, 90, 746–773.

I discuss how assertions about race, nationality and ‘tribal’ identity articulated to subordinate Ethiopian rule to British interests.

0302. Tsegaye, K.K. (2020). Stay at home: Coronavirus (COVID–19), isolationism and the future of globalization. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 14(3), 84–90.

Shrinking international or inter-state cooperation and declining trend of globalization are effects of the COVID–19 pandemic.

0303. Udoh, I. (2020). Oil production, environmental pressures and other sources of violent conflict in Nigeria. Review of African Political Economy, 47(164), 199–219.

Violent conflicts are related to the negative pressures placed on the environment and communities by pollution of land and water resources by oil production.

0304. van Klyton, A.C., Rutabayiro-Ngoga, S., & Liyanage, L. (2020). Chinese investment in the Sierra Leone telecommunications sector: International financial institutions, neoliberalism and organisational fields. Review of African Political Economy, 47(164), 220–237.

Relationships are affected and transformed by the availability of China as an alternative source of investment.

0305. Ylönen, A. (2020). Building the nation in Southern Sudan: State emblems, symbols and national identity. Africa Review, 12, 151–171.

The meanings attached to the adopted state emblems and national symbols can be inclusionary or exclusionary.

0306. Yount-André, C. (2019). Strategic investments in multiple middle classes: Morals and mobility between Paris and Dakar. Africa Today, 66(3–4), 88–112.

I show how the symbols and stakes of middle-classness shift with national context and political–economic transformations.

0307. Zondi, S. (2020). The post-colonial is neocolonial in the Indian Ocean region: The case of Chagos seen through the African-centred decolonial theoretical lens. Africa Review, 12, 119–132.

Using a decolonial lens of analysis infused with African anti-colonial perspectives enables us to understand the fundamental problems facing the Chagosians.

Psychological Studies

0308. Herbst, T.H.H. (2020). Gender differences in self-perception accuracy: The confidence gap and women leaders’ underrepresentation in academia. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 46, a1704.

Male and female leaders were perceived to be equally effective by their raters, but not by themselves.

0309. Hong, M., Dyakov, D.G., & Zheng, J. (2020). Self-esteem and psychological capital: Their mediation of the relationship between Big Five personality traits and creativity in college students. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 119–124.

Self-esteem and psychological capital mediated the relationship between extroversion and conscientiousness.

0310. Llenares, I.I., Sario, J.A., Bialba, D., & Dela Cruz, J.M. (2020). Volunteerism influences on student resilience and gratitude. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 211–216.

The more hours they spend volunteering, the higher their sense of resilience and gratitude.

0311. Magorokosho, N.K. & Mberira, M. (2020). Attachment styles as predictors of intimate partner violence: A retrospective study with a student population. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 192–196.

We indicated being anxiously attached was a predictor of intimate partner violence while avoidance was not.

0312. Maree, J.G. (2020). Integrative career counselling for early career individuals. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 228–238.

This approach could enhance entrepreneurship and promote self-entrepreneurship and employability.

0313. Martin, Y. (2020). ‘Now I am not afraid’: Simon Nkoli, queer utopias and transnational solidarity. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 673–687.

I challenge depictions of Nkoli as predominantly a ‘gay martyr’ to present a view of his affective lives.

0314. Morton, N., Hill, C., Meiring, D., & van de Vijver, F.J.R. (2020). Investigating measurement invariance in the South African Personality Inventory: English version. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 274–289.

We advance the aim of the South African Personality Inventory to comply with stipulations in South Africa’s Employment Equity Act regarding fair and unbiased assessments.

0315. Mostert, K. & Pienaar, J. (2020). The moderating effect of social support on the relationship between burnout, intention to drop out, and satisfaction with studies of first-year university students. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 197–202.

Social support from parents and significant others moderated certain relationships between burnout and intention to drop out.

0316. Nekgotha, T.K., Nel, K., & Govender, S. (2020). Stress levels and alcohol use amongst beginning students at a peri-urban South African university: A brief report. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 208–210.

We suggest a need for student substance use safety education by students’ counselling services.

0317. Ngirande, H. & Mjoli, T.O. (2020). Uncertainty as a moderator of the relationship between job satisfaction and occupational stress. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 46, a1676.

Human resource managers should reduce the uncertainty of employees to increase job satisfaction and reduce stress.

0318. Ngwenya, B. & Pelser, T. (2020). Impact of psychological capital on employee engagement, job satisfaction and employee performance in the manufacturing sector in Zimbabwe. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 46, a1781.

Entrepreneurial envisioned corporations embrace the role of psychological capital to optimize employees’ competences.

0319. Opperman, I. & Mason, H.D. (2020). Structure and norms of the Learning and Study Strategy Inventory: A comparison of South African and American samples. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 187–191.

South African students self-reported with significantly higher scores.

0320. Rossouw, E. & Rothmann, S. (2020). Job demands and job resources and well-being of judges in South Africa. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 46, a1801.

Interventions should be employed to alleviate the job demands of judges while increasing their job resources.

0321. Steyn, R. & de Bruin, G.P. (2020). An investigation of gender-based differences in assessment instruments: A test of measurement invariance. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 46, a1699.

The serratedness of findings, even when using well-recognized and frequently used psychometric instruments, exposes the prevalence of non-invariance in some instruments.

0322. Terblanche, N.H.D. & Heyns, M. (2020). The impact of coachee personality traits, propensity to trust and perceived trustworthiness of a coach, on a coachee’s trust behaviour in a coaching relationship. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 46, a1707.

Neither personality traits nor propensity to trust are predictors of coachee trust behavior.

0323. Van der Vyver, Y. (2019). The role of sculptural tradition in (political) power transformations: the self-contradictoriness of psychosocial repetition. South African Journal of Art History, 34(2), 1–24.

I investigate the social-physical phenomenon of psychosocial repetition within its complex context.

0324. Van Wijk, C.H. (2020). Adult ADHD in the South African workplace: The usefulness of a self-report screening measure and preliminary prevalence estimates. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 262–273.

Preliminary prevalence estimates for Adult ADHD, guided by DSM-5 criteria, are now available for a South African workplace sample.

0325. Wagener, E. & Padmanabhanunni, A. (2020). Sex differences in normative beliefs about aggression among South African university students. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 203–207.

Approval of retaliation was higher than unprovoked aggression for both sexes.

0326. Waglay, M., Becker, J.R., & du Plessis, M. (2020). The role of emotional intelligence and autonomy in transformational leadership: A leader member exchange perspective. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 46, a1762.

Leader member exchange and emotional intelligence mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and job performance.

0327. Xiao, W., Opata, C.M., Tetteh, S., Narh, T.-W.J., & Hinson, R.E. (2020). Value co-creation effects on transaction cost, relational capital, and loyalty of hair salon customers: Results and implications of a Ghanaian study. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 217–224.

Value co-creation is of competitive advantage, influencing relational capital and customer loyalty.

0328. Zungu, D. & Visagie, N. (2020). All eyes on Sudan: The journey of female psychologists in the theatre of operation. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 46, a1739.

Three main themes were elicited: deployment experiences, peacekeeping deployment experiences and experiences of female psychologists.

Social Organization (Culture contact, migration, modernization)

0329. Bashwira, M.-R. & van der Haar, G. (2020). Necessity or choice: Women’s migration to artisanal mining regions in eastern DRC. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 54, 79–99.

We situate women’s movement to the mines within their life trajectories which are shaped by violence and various forms of insecurity.

0330. Bedert, M. (2020). Refugees, identity, and the limits to inclusion: Revisiting landlord-stranger reciprocity relations in contemporary Liberia. African Studies Review, 63(3), 640–659.

In the eyes of landlords, strangers are evaluated based on what they can bring to the table.

0331. Coe, C. (2019). Social class in transnational perspective: Emotional responses to the status paradox among Ghanaian migrants. Africa Today, 66(3–4), 160–178.

They direct their energy toward an alternative social field through house construction in Ghana.

0332. Coe, C. & Pauli, J. (2019). Migration and social class in Africa: Class-making projects in translocal social fields. Africa Today, 66(3–4), 2–19.

Migrants usually have multiple class statuses across their lifetime.

0333. de Regt, M. & Mihret, F.B. (2020). Agency in constrained circumstances: Adolescent migrant sex workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 512–528.

The decisions of adolescent girls to migrate for sex work are a way of asserting their agency in moving forward with life.

0334. Feldman-Savelsberg, P. (2019). Class performances: Children’s parties and the reproduction of social class among diasporic Cameroonians. Africa Today, 66(3–4), 20–43.

Performances of cosmopolitan class identity centered on children’s educational and cultural achievements.

0335. Hanisch, S. (2019). Chinese migration to Lesotho as a springboard toward a better future? The ambiguous social class positions of migrants’ children. Africa Today, 66(3–4), 44–64.

Transnational migration divides families and affects cycles of care, as well as the generational transmission of capital and class identities.

0336. Hiralal, K. (2020). Voices and memories of indentured women in Natal. African Economic History, 48(1), 74–90.

We ask how to bring hidden and subjective voices of women from the margins to the center in the histories of indenture.

0337. Kea, P.J. (2019). Reproducing middle-class subjectivities: Educational migration, transnationalism, and British Nigerian youth. Africa Today, 66(3–4), 66–87.

Their transnational practices lead to the accumulation of cultural capital, in the form of educational qualifications and particular dispositions, and social capital.

0338. Luongo, K. (2020). “The problem of witchcraft”: Violence and the supernatural in global African refugee mobilities. African Studies Review, 63(3), 660–682.

Witchcraft violence has emerged steadily as a “push factor” for African asylum seekers.

0339. Ndlovu, D.S. (2020). Imagining Zimbabwe as home: Ethnicity, violence and migration. African Studies Review, 63(3), 616–639.

Migration debates tend to focus on the numbers of people moving, whether they are economic migrants or asylum seekers.

0340. Palmary, I. & de Gruchy, T. (2020). The globalisation of trafficking and its impact on the South African counter-trafficking legislation. Critical Social Policy, 40, 50–68.

Policy-making around issues of trafficking and migration takes place amidst complex and unequal global relationships.

0341. Pauli, J. (2019). Class-switching: Migrants’ multiple class identities in rural and urban Namibia. Africa Today, 66(3–4), 114–135.

I trace the flexibility of class identities through migrants’ switching of class and place.

0342. Steyn, G. (2019). Designing apartments for changing demographics in South Africa. South African Journal of Art History, 34(2), 25–42.

I examine the requirements of these households and translate them into tentative normative design principles.

0343. Williams, C.A. (2020). SWAPO’s struggle children and exile home-making: the refugee biography of Mawazo Nakadhilu. African Studies Review, 63(3), 593–615.

I stress the value of biographical work focused on aspects of refugees’ lives that tend to be overlooked in nationalist discourse.

Symbol Systems (Religion, ritual, world view)

0344. Boaz, D.N. (2020). The ‘horrors of imputed witchcraft’, the ‘cruelties of paganism’, and the Colonial Project in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, 1830s–1870s. South African Historical Journal, 72, 177–198.

The colonists’ arguments for humanitarian intervention to rescue Africans who were ‘falsely’ accused of practicing witchcraft were far from altruistic.

0345. Dhupelia-Mesthrie, U. & Weintroub, J. (2020). Going beyond Gandhi’s ‘inner circle’ of relationships: Satyagraha House, Hermann Kallenbach and Gandhi’s sons. Critical African Studies, 12, 140–170.

Their conversation is interspersed with extracts of epistolary relationships that then establish a series of links across time, space and archives.

0346. God’sgift, O.U. (2020). Pentecostalism and Nigeria’s English usage: A pragmatic analysis of select expressions. Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 17(4), 107–127.

The theories considered relevant to the study are van Dijk’s Context Models and Mey’s Theory of Pragmatic Acts.

0347. Heese, H. & van der Heyden, U. (2019). Klaas Koen en etnografiese verwarring in die negentiende eeuse Kaapse samelewing. South African Journal of Cultural History, 33(2), 72–97. [In Africaans]

Klaas Koen was the first mixed-race missionary trained in Berlin as a fully fledged missionary of good standing.

0348. Isiko, A.P. (2020). Religious construction of disease: An exploratory appraisal of religious responses to the COVID–19 pandemic in Uganda. Journal of African Studies and Development, 12(3), 77–96.

We argue for the significance of religious ideas in making science effective in combating societal challenges like epidemics.

0349. Mahashe, G.T. (2020). Walking towards a camera obscura. Critical African Studies, 12, 218–236.

The practice of travelling offered opportunities in the form of dream as a khelobedu text.

0350. Niechciał, P. (2020). Essentialism in Zoroastrian boundary construction. Anthropology Southern Africa, 43, 119–132.

I demonstrate various forms of essentialism that are employed to mark boundaries around and between Zoroastrians.

0351. Olusegun, O.A. (2020). Proliferation of churches in Nigeria: Causes, impacts and likely solutions. Journal of African Studies and Development, 12(3), 61–76.

The economic downturn in the nation causing lack of job and hardship is the major cause of church proliferation.

0352. Oruru, B., Najjemba, H., Zawedde, A.E., Nteziyaremye, R., …, D’ujanga, F.M. (2020). The first track of cultural astronomy in Uganda: Perspectives of the Baganda, Bagisu, Banyoro and Langi. African Journal of History and Culture, 12(2), 35–48.

The ethnic groups still believe that the earth is flat and the sky is round with a diameter equal to the length of the earth.

0353. Salamon, H. (2020). From hand to mouth: Reflections on the multivocality of gursha in Ethiopia. Northeast African Studies, 19(2), 1–30.

The custom of feeding a person sitting at one's table by feeding them a handful of sumptuous food is known as gursha.

0354. Tewelde, Y. (2020). The impact of European Christian imagery on contemporary Orthodox Tewahedo iconography in Eritrea. Northeast African Studies, 19(2), 91–110.

Tewahedo icons are characterized by brown- and black-skinned Christian figures and indigenized settings.

0355. Viebach, J. (2020). Mediating ‘absence-presence’ at Rwanda’s genocide memorials: Of care-taking, memory and proximity to the dead. Critical African Studies, 12, 237–269.

Care-taking re-verses time because it gives back dignity to those who died ‘bad deaths’ during the genocide.

0356. Volz, S. (2020). ‘But I know you, you are not God’: African responses to European colonialism in a missionary newspaper. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 597–613.

They initially pursued ways to accommodate European colonisation that preserved their existing communal strength.

0357. Volz, S. (2020). In Black hands: Tswana chieftaincy and the Ethiopian church movements of 1880–1910. South African Historical Journal, 72, 222–245.

The history of colonialism in Africa is often portrayed as a confrontation between black Africans and white Europeans.

Urban Studies

0358. Asare-Akuffo, F., Twumasi-Boakye, R., Appiah-Opoku, S., & Sobanjo, J.O. (2020). Spatial accessibility to hospital facilities: The case of Kumasi, Ghana. African Geographical Review, 39, 120–133.

Those in peri-urban areas have very limited spatial access to health facilities.

0359. Bhanye, J. & Dzingirai, V. (2020). Plural strategies of accessing land among peri-urban squatters. African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, 13, 98–113.

The identified strategies (inheritance, seizures, and purchase) are contingent based.

0360. Coslett, D.E. (2020). Preservation and tourism in Tunisia: On the colonial past in the neocolonial present. The Journal of North African Studies, 25, 727–752.

I explore the nature and products of neocolonialism in postcolonial heritage management and tourism practices.

0361. Fianko, J.R. & Korankye, M.B. (2020). Quality characteristics of water used for irrigation in urban and peri-urban agriculture in greater Accra Region of Ghana: Health and environmental risk. West African Journal of Applied Ecology, 28(1), 131–143.

The irrigation water is stressed by persistent pollution load along its migratory pathway by expanding human activities.

0362. Goodfellow, T. (2020). Finance, infrastructure and urban capital: The political economy of African ‘gap-filling.’ Review of African Political Economy, 47(164), 256–274.

Financial flows into Africa are being reoriented through the pervasive discourse of the ‘infrastructure gap’.

0363. Groves, Z. (2020). ‘Zimbabwe is my home’: Citizenship and belonging for ‘Malawians’ in post-independence urban Zimbabwe. South African Historical Journal, 72, 299–320.

I show through multidisciplinary research how long-term urban residents originally from Malawi have continued to be regarded as ‘foreign.’

0364. Gumede, S.T. & Downs, C.T. (2020). Preliminary observations suggest Common Myna prefer lipid over protein and carbohydrate foods in a pairwise choice experiment. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 91, 95–100.

The Common Myna will continue to be distributed mainly in urban areas where anthropogenic foods relatively high in fat are common.

0365. Jongh, L. (2020). Beyond associations: Emerging spaces of self-organization among vendors in Zambia. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 455–472.

Vendors explore business opportunities, and mobile phones contribute to these new emerging spaces for self-organization.

0366. Kanosvamhira, T.P. & Tevera, D. (2020). Urban agriculture as a source of social capital in the Cape Flats of Cape Town. African Geographical Review, 39, 175–187.

Urban agriculture increases social interaction among urban gardeners and the community.

0367. Kroeker, L.L. (2019). Moving to retain class status: Spatial mobility among older middle-class people in Kenya. Africa Today, 66(3–4), 136–158.

Entitlements and resources need to be saved and invested during an economically productive phase to lead a decent life after retirement outside the cities.

0368. Mattah, P.A.D., Futagbi, G., Amekudzi, L.K., & Mattah, M.M. (2020). Climate variations, urban solid waste management and possible implications for Anopheles mosquito breeding in selected cities of coastal Ghana. West African Journal of Applied Ecology, 28(1), 21–34.

Anopheles mosquito breeding may no longer be seasonal in the cities but perennial and malaria transmission may follow.

0369. Sabbi, M. (2020). ‘Municipal entrepreneurs’: Local politicians and the delivery of urban sanitation in Kumasi, Ghana. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 221–242.

Management of urban sanitation is a contested arena between bureaucrats and political actors all vying for their interests.

0370. Shumba, A., Dunjana, N., Nyamasoka, B., Nyamugafata, P., …, Nyamangara, J. (2020). Maize (Zea mays) yield and its relationship to soil properties under integrated fertility, mulch and tillage management in urban agriculture. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 37, 120–129.

Maize yields significantly increased by at least 3.7 times in both soils under mineral fertilizer.

0371. Steele, J. (2019). Ephemeropolis: Urban design and performing land art at AfrikaBurn 2019. South African Journal of Art History, 34(2), 62–83.

Elements of some traditions arising out of Burning Man as practiced at AfrikaBurn give substance to vectors for change.

0372. Stell, G. (2020). Urban youth style or emergent urban vernacular? The rise of Namibia's Kasietaal. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51(2), 49–67.

Kasietaal is a post-independence phenomenon, with a manipulated lexicon of diverse origins as its most salient feature.

0373. Terrefe, B. (2020). Urban layers of political rupture: The ‘new’ politics of Addis Ababa’s megaprojects. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 375–395.

These urban megaprojects are useful analytical lenses to disentangle political rupture from operational continuity.

0374. Thompson, D.K. (2020). Capital of the imperial borderlands: Urbanism, markets, and power on the Ethiopia-British Somaliland boundary, ca. 1890–1935. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, 529–552.

Competition to capture borderlands commerce focused on Jigjiga town as a site where Ethiopian rule and British-backed trade mixed.

0375. Werema, C., Senzota, R.B.M., & Mohamed, N. (2019). Avifaunal biodiversity in peril: Pre- and post-vegetation clearance survey of avifauna in a fragmented thicket in an urban landscape, Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania. Journal of East African Natural History, 108, 65–80.

We recommend conserving thickets and forest patches in urban landscapes as habitats for birds and other fauna.