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  • Chinua Achebe and hybrid aesthetics 
    Waliaula, Ken Walibora (University of Namibia, 2017)
    This essay examines the question of hybridity in Chinua Achebe’s fiction and essays with a view to bringing to fore the inherent contradictions, ambiguities and ambivalences that typify writing in the colonial language. ...
  • Theoretical configurations and considerations on African popular culture 
    Senkoro, Fikeni E. (University of Namibia, 2017)
    This conceptual paper deals with some theoretical configurations and considerations of the form and content of African popular culture/s. It problematizes the subject by raising some provocative questions that may produce ...
  • African writing, aesthetics and discursive violence 
    Oyegoke, Lekan (University of Namibia, 2017)
    As a signifier “African writing” is suitably pluralistic in its potential for denotation and connotation and delimitation of thematic concern. Wearing an ambiguous qualifier such as “African” the contestable positions ...
  • Speakers living and languages dying: The endangerment of !Xóõ and øHua in Botswana 
    Moumakwa, Tshiamiso V.; Monaka, Kemmonye C. (University of Namibia, 2017)
    !Xóõ and øHua are San languages spoken in Botswana, with !Xóõ also cross-bordering into South Africa and Namibia. !Xóõ is a Southern Khoesan language genetically affiliated to the Taa branch of Khoesan languages. ...
  • Another day in my life 
    Mkandawire, Lucy (University of Namibia, 2017)
    As I lie on my mat in the still of the night, with only the intermittent sound of a laughing hyena in the far distance, I wonder what tomorrow will bring. The baby in my belly begins to kick as though reminding me that ...
  • Omikalo omikulu nomipe dhokuyunga oosa dhAawambo 
    Mbenzi, Petrus A. (University of Namibia, 2017)
    This paper describes the past and the present mourning practices and rituals of Aawambo. It examines traditional practices, which were adhered to in the ancient time, and the impact of modernization on the mourning ...
  • Investigating students’ motivations to learn French Foreign Language at the University of Namibia 
    Lumbu, Simon D.; Zannier-Wahengo, Aurelie (University of Namibia, 2017)
    This paper is based on a case study carried out to instigate the motivation in students studying French as a foreign language in a tertiary institution, in an Anglophone country. There is general consensus among applied ...
  • Matumizi ya lugha katika mandhari-lugha ya jiji la Dar es Salaam: Ulinganishi wa dhima za Kiswahili na Kiingereza 
    Kidami, Rhoda Peterson (University of Namibia, 2017)
    Numerous studies have been undertaken on the uses of language in the linguistic-landscape of various cities in the world, for instance in Bangkok, Tokyo, Vilnius, Amsterdam, and Gaborone. Those studies revealed that the ...
  • The gap between grade 5 learners and their English Second Language competency: Should we be worried? 
    Julius, Lukas Homateni; Hautemo, Aletta Mweneni (University of Namibia, 2017)
    In Namibian (public) schools, Lower Primary learners (pre- primary- Grade 3) are taught through their mother tongue and switch to English as the language of learning and teaching from Upper Primary phase (Grade 4 onwards). ...