scholarly journals Language policy and orthographic harmonization across linguistic, ethnic and national boundaries in Southern Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Banda
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
National Boundaries

scholarly journals Becoming a missional church: The struggle of the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa or Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in Meadowlands, Soweto

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Tsdiso Kganyapa ◽  
Thias Selaelo Kgatla
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Lay Ministry ◽  
Missional Church ◽  
Evangelical Church ◽  
Ministry Development

The existence of the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa (LECSA) and Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS) in the western areas of Johannesburg, South Western Township (Soweto) and, more poignantly, Meadowlands and their forced removal experience are succinctly captured. The struggle of the LECSA and PEMS Meadowlands Parish in becoming a missional ecclesia in a sea of missional challenges in her context is vividly spelt out. They, inter alia, include constitutional matters, language policy, finances, ministerial preparation, lay-ministry development, institutionalisation of ministry, unity issues, prophetic ministry, mission and evangelism. The researcher, then, proposes an intervention – of course not a perfect one – that perhaps will galvanise the LECSA and PEMS Meadowlands Parish members to improve on what they have been doing and become a missional ecclesia in her context, Meadowlands.

European Union and Hungarian Language Policy

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Soo-Young Park
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
European Integration ◽  
National Identities ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Hungarian Language

Eastern European countries has been historically multiracial European countries, therefore, the language policy of EU becomes a test case for the practical lives of peoples on the question of the preservation of national identities without national boundaries. This thesis shows what kind of language policy that EU practices to integrate its member states' peoples which practically transcend the borders and how each state deals with these necessities with European Integration and the Globalization. In my paper, Hungary was analyzed as an example.

scholarly journals ‘Creative Ferment’: abortion and reproductive agency in Bessie Head’s Personal Choices trilogy

2021 ◽  
pp. medhum-2020-012052
Author(s):  
Caitlin E Stobie
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Human Reproduction ◽  
Bessie Head ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Changing Attitudes

Using original archival research from Amazwi South African Museum of Literature, this article examines representations of abortion in three novels by Bessie Head: When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), Maru (1971) and A Question of Power (1973). I argue that Bessie Head documents both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy and dramatic environmental, medical, and sociopolitical developments during southern Africa’s liberation struggles. Furthermore, her fictional writing queers materialism and its traditionally gender-dichotomous origins, presenting an understanding of development which exceeds temporal or national boundaries. Her treatment of human reproduction in both tangible and figurative terms disrupts teleological definitions of exile: separation and loss, rendered through literal and metaphorical abortions, are seen as inherently vital processes for gaining agency in post/colonial southern Africa. Instead of using discourse from contemporary debates about freedom and choice, which are often polarised, I use the term ‘reproductive agency’ to refer to a continuum of ethical presentness, rooted in considering women’s desires. My literary analysis explicitly concentrates on Head’s biological imagery of growth and separation and how this ruptures repronormative discourse underpinning colonial expansion in southern Africa. I refer to Head’s ethical outlook as a critical form of humanism. My understanding of critical humanism differs from humanism proper in that it relies on queer associations: both queerness as strangeness, and queerness as resistance to categorisation (much like Head’s critiques of essentialist national identities). Adapting new materialist theories with postcolonial scholarship, I coin the term ‘queer vitality’ to argue that abortion involves both tragedy and desire, and that southern African feminist fiction functions as postcolonial theory when the concept of reproductive agency is understood to encompass both individual and collective desires. In Head’s words, in her creative worlds, abortion does not signal the ending of a life, but rather a plethora of new possibilities.

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