Pseudodactylogyrus anguillae (Yin & Sproston, 1948) from the giant mottled eel Anguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824, in the Phongolo River, South Africa: an invader on the African continent

This article is interested in popular and institutional or state responses to the representations of queerness offered in the films Inxeba/The Wound (South Africa, 2017) and Rafiki (Kenya, 2018). Aside from portraying the marked homophobia that continues to circulate on the African continent, the institutional and state responses to the films have overshadowed the positive popular reception which has characterised conversations around the films on social media and public spaces. This article shows how social media functions as animportant space of contestation for diverse issues relating to non-normative gender and sexual identities. As these films circulate in different spaces and are viewed by diverse audiences, they elicit equally diverse reactions and responses. The article examines how viewers, in Africa and beyond, receive and engage with the queerness represented in the two films. It argues that the multifaceted reactions to Inxeba/The Wound and Rafiki are central to articulating important questions about what it means to be queer in Africa,and particularly what it implies for black queers to inhabit heteronormative and patriarchal spaces on the continent. Through an analysis of the reactions and receptions of the two films in Africa and the global North, it is argued that it is possible to trace important inter-regional, intra-continental and intercontinental dialogues and conversations regarding the representation of queer African subjectivities. The intra-continental and inter-continental dialogues bring to light questions of gaze and viewing that are inherent in the circulation of queer-themed films. Kewords: Inxeba/The Wound, Rafiki, reception, popular culture, queerness

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Afriflu2—Second international workshop on influenza vaccination in the African continent—8 November 2012, Cape Town (South Africa)

Vaccine ◽

10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.04.021 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 31 (35) ◽

pp. 3461-3466 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Barry D. Schoub ◽

Bradford D. Gessner ◽

William Ampofo ◽

Adam L. Cohen ◽

Christoph A. Steffen

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Influenza Vaccination ◽

International Workshop ◽

Cape Town ◽

African Continent ◽

Second International

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Ten interesting species of aquatic Hyphomycetes from South Africa

Bothalia ◽

10.4102/abc.v14i3/4.1265 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 14 (3/4) ◽

pp. 939-942 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

R. C. Sinclair ◽

A. Eicker

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

New Records ◽

Aquatic Hyphomycetes ◽

African Continent ◽

Interesting Species

Examination of the foam spora of South Africa has revealed the presence of ten interesting species from nine genera, seven of which are new records for the African continent and three for South Africa. These are Anguillospora crassa Ingold, Condylospora spumigena Nawawi, Flabellospora verticillata Alasoadura, Lateriramulosa uni-inflata Matsushima, Lemonniera alabamensis Sinclair Morgan-Jones, Lemonniera filiformis Petersen ex Dyko, Lunulospora cymbiformis Miura, Speiropsis irregularis Petersen, Tetrachaetum elegans Ingold and Tricellula aquatica Webster.

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South Africa

Handbook of Research on Global Diffusion of Broadband Data Transmission ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-851-2.ch002 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 13-28

Author(s):

Justin Henley Beneke

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Computer Literacy ◽

African Continent ◽

End User ◽

Mobile Broadband ◽

User Costs ◽

Developed Markets ◽

Downward Pressure ◽

Broadband Services ◽

Local Loop

South Africa has fallen behind its international peers both developing and developed markets in the race to rollout broadband services. In fact, even within the African continent, it is neither the broadband leader nor progressive in comparison to its Northern African counterparts. This chapter explores the development of broadband services in South Africa, as well as touching on the challenges faced in bringing this phenomenon into the mainstream. Reasons for the lack of diffusion and adoption of such services point to high end user costs of the service, a very limited geographical footprint of both fixedline and mobile broadband infrastructure, as well as a lack of computer literacy and an understanding of what broadband is able to offer. The chapter looks at possible solutions, including introducing a greater degree of competition into the market to facilitate downward pressure on prices, as well as providing cost-based access to international submarine fiber cables and the unbundling of the local loop to further this objective.

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Africa

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574797.003.0025 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Dawn D’Arcy Nell

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Regime Change ◽

Educational Policies ◽

Academic Publishing ◽

African Continent ◽

Significant Growth ◽

High Profile ◽

The Press ◽

The Individual

With branches in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and several smaller offices in other countries, OUP books were marketed and distributed throughout the African continent. A number of challenges, differing in scope and essence, confronted publishers operating in Africa, but the enormous potential of the market, especially for schoolbooks, offered the opportunity for significant growth. The African branches developed some innovative programmes of general and academic publishing and represented some high-profile authors, but their primary and continuing mission was to anticipate and supply the demand for schoolbooks. The chapter considers the individual branches’ publications, sales, distribution, financial positions, and management, as well as their interactions with one another and with Oxford. The chapter also assesses the responses of the Press and its African branches to regime change, corruption, government educational policies, currency fluctuations, and indigenization movements.

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The Biology of Tsetse Flies in Relation to Control Methods

Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society ◽

10.1017/s0368393100080184 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 68 (644) ◽

pp. 544-546

Author(s):

A. B. Hadaway

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Red Sea ◽

Agricultural Development ◽

Tsetse Flies ◽

Control Methods ◽

African Continent ◽

Indirect Influence ◽

Veterinary Importance

Tsetse flies are generally classed as insects of medical and veterinary importance, but qualify for consideration by this group by virtue of their indirect influence on agricultural development in Africa and their possible control by the application of insecticides from aircraft.Tsetse flies are confined to the African continent and a few small off-shore islands. They are widely distributed between 14°N and 29°S wherever the environment is suitable; and are absent from N. Africa, the Sahara, the Red Sea Zone and the Somalias, and the highlands of Ethiopia, and from the Union of South Africa, except Zululand.

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Astrophysics in Burkina Faso

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s1743921311022812 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 6 (S277) ◽

pp. 220-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Claude Carignan ◽

Luc Turbide ◽

Jean Koulidiati

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Burkina Faso ◽

African Continent

AbstractOn the African continent, most of the activities in Astronomy are found in South Africa where full training in Astrophysics is given in a few Universities and where most of the professional astronomers and of the research instruments (from small telescopes to the 11m SALT, in the optical) can be found. In 2007, we started a full program (undergraduate and graduate) in Astrophysics at the Université de Ouagadougou and an Observatory (ODAUO), for teaching purposes, was also built. In October 2009, we put in crates the 1m Marly telescope in La Silla, Chile which will be rebuilt in 2011-12, as a full research telescope, on mount Djaogari in Burkina Faso.

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ARABIC SOURCES AND THE SEARCH FOR A NEW HISTORIOGRAPHY IN IBADAN IN THE 1960s

Africa ◽

10.1017/s0001972016000097 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 86 (2) ◽

pp. 344-346

Author(s):

Ousmane Kane

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

African History ◽

African Continent ◽

Historical Legacy ◽

Oral Form ◽

Alternative Sources ◽

The 1960S ◽

The University ◽

University Of Ibadan

According to the late Ali Mazrui, modern Africa is the product of a triple civilizational legacy: African, Arabo-Islamic, and Western (Mazrui 1986). Each civilization left Africa with bodies of knowledge rooted in particular epistemologies and transmitted in written and/or oral form. In the first half of the twentieth century, what became known as the colonial library (Mudimbe 1988: x) had provided the sources and conceptual apparatus for studying African history, but from the mid-twentieth century onwards, nationalist intellectuals sought to deconstruct European colonial intellectual hegemony through the search for alternative sources and interpretations of African history. Notable among these intellectuals is Cheikh Anta Diop, whose work highlighted the close connections between Egypt and the rest of the continent to claim Ancient Egypt's historical legacy for the continent. Nigeria's first university – University College Ibadan, which later became the University of Ibadan – provided a forum for talented Africans and Europeans to pursue the project of decolonizing African history. Jeremiah Arowosegbe's survey provides insights into the rise and decline of academic commitment in the African continent, with particular reference to South Africa and Nigeria.

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NOTE ON THE FOUNDING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF THE EARLY DOMESTICATED ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

Animal Genetic Resources Information ◽

10.1017/s1014233900005836 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 17 ◽

pp. 29-33

Author(s):

J. Bester

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Genetic Resources ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Conservation Policy ◽

Archaeological Research ◽

African Continent ◽

Domesticated Animals ◽

Animal Genetic Resources ◽

The Creation ◽

Rock Paintings

SUMMARYSouth Africa is a major livestock region of the African continent and a country rich in local animal genetic resources (AnGR). Archaeological research and the important rock paintings found in the region confirm the existence of domesticated ruminant populations, at least baclc to 300 AD. The dwindling of the pool of AnGR in recent years justifies the creation of ACEDA, which can and should play a major role in AnGR conservation policy and activities.

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Notes on African Pannariaceae (lichenized ascomycetes)

The Lichenologist ◽

10.1006/lich.2002.0424 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 11-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Per M. Jørgensen

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

New Species ◽

African Continent ◽

Lichenized Ascomycetes

AbstractThe African continent is shown to contain only 38 species in the lichen family Pannariaceae, all of which are listed in the conclusion. Four new species are described: Pannaria planiuscula (Republic of South Africa [RSA] and Kenya), Pannaria squamulosa (RSA), Parmeliella dactylifera (RSA), and Parmeliella triptophylloides (Kenya). Four species are recorded as new to the continent: Pannaria centrifuga P.M. Jørg. (RSA), Pannaria ramosii Vain. (Tanzania), Parmeliella imbricatula (Müll. Arg.) P. M. Jørg. (RSA), and Psoroma fruticulosum James & Henssen (RSA). The following taxa described from Africa prove to be synonyms: Pannaria cameroonensis Dodge (=Parmeliella stylophora), Pannaria capensis Stirt. (= P. lurida), Pannaria leucosticta var. isidiopsis Nyl. (= P. globigera), Pannaria pityrella Stirt. (= Coccocarpia stellata), and Pannaria thoroldii Dodge (= Parmeliella mariana). Three species have been incorrectly recorded from Africa: Pannaria fulvescens, Parmeliella nigrocincra and Parmeliella triptophylla.

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