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Cape Town Harmonies
Memory, Humour and Resilience
Armelle Gaulier, Denis-Constant Martin
"Cape Town’s public cultures can only be fully appreciated through recognition of its deep and diverse soundscape. We have to listen to what has made and makes a city. The ear is an integral part of the ‘research tools’ one needs to get a sense of a…
107 USD
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One world, many knowledges
Regional experiences and cross-regional links in higher education
Peter C. J. Vale, Tor Halvorsen
Various forms of academic co-operation criss-cross the modern university system in a bewildering number of ways, from the open exchange of ideas and knowledge, to the sharing of research results, and frank discussions about research challenges. Embe…
35 USD
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Election management bodies in Southern Africa
Сomparative study of the electoral commissions' contribution to electoral processes
OSISA, ECF-SADC
Over the past two decades, Southern African countries have entrenched the use of elections as the only means and medium for electing governments and representative institutions in governance. Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) are central to the del…
40 USD
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Bless Me Father
3rd Revised edition
Mario D'Offizi
Bless Me Father is the true story of an incredible South African life. Born into a violent and broken family, and growing up in a variety of institutions, Cape Town based poet and writer Mario d'Offizi tells his remarkable, often shocking and ultima…
57 USD
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Castells in Africa
Universities and Development
Johan Muller, Nico Cloete, Francois van Schalkwyk
'Castells in Africa: Universities and Development" collects the papers produced by Manuel Castells on his visits to South Africa, and publishes them in a single volume for the first time. The book also publishes a series of empirically-based papers …
30 USD
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Knowledge for Justice
Critical Perspectives from Southern African-Nordic Research Partnerships
Tor Halvorsen, Hilde Ibsen
With the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, the purpose of development is being redefined in both social and environmental terms. Despite pushback from conservative forces, change is accelera…
30 USD
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Open Data in Developing Economies
Toward Building an Evidence Base on What Works and How
Stefaan G. Verhulst, Andrew Young
Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data, however, focuses on high-income countries. Much less is know…
38 USD
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A contemporary study of musical arts
Informed by African indigenous knowledge systems: The Stem: Growth
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Volumes 2
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Meki Nzewi, Odyke Nzewi
Volumes 1 to 3 are designed as a graduated series for musical arts education at the tertiary level under the module topics: musical structure and form; factors of music appreciation; music instruments; music and society; research; music theatre; and…
52 USD
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African classical ensemble music
Agiri music (Foundation)
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Book 1
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Meki Nzewi, Odyke Nzewi
The study of African music must be grounded in indigenous African knowledge systems, thus making it truly representative of indigenous Africa's intellectual history. "The African Classical Ensemble Music: Theory and Drum-based Concert" Series is int…
52 USD
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Research Universities in Africa
Nico Cloete, Ian Bunting, Francois van Schalkwyk
From the early 2000s, a new discourse emerged, in Africa and the international donor community, that higher education was important for development in Africa. Within this ‘zeitgeist’ of converging interests, a range of agencies agreed that a differe…
40 USD
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Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Patricia Brazil Arinto
Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources…
60 USD
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The next generation of scientists in Africa
Beaudry C.,
Mouton J.,
Prozesky H.
This book reports on the main findings of a three-and-a-half-year international project in order to assist its readers in better understanding the African research system in general, and more specifically its young scientists. The first part of the …
57 USD
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The State of Open Data
Histories and Horizons
Tim Davies (ed.)
It’s been ten years since open data first broke onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programmes and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, …
88 USD
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Ubushakashatsi mu bumenyi nyamuntu n`imibanire y`abantu
Evode Mukama, Laurent Nkusi (eds.)
Research in developed countries is often considered as a means to pave the way towards sustainable development in different areas of the society including science and technology, the economy, governance and security. Researchers in developing countr…
59 USD
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Sounding the Cape
Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa
Denis-Constant Martin
In "Sounding the Cape", Denis-Constant Martin recomposes and examines through the theoretical prism of creolisation the history of music in Cape Town, deploying analytical tools borrowed from the most recent studies of identity configurations. He de…
55 USD
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Higher education pathways
South African undergraduate education and the public good
Paul Ashwin, Jennifer M. Case
Paul Ashwin is Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK. Jennifer M. Case is Department Head and Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, USA and Honorary Profess…
53 USD
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Sharing knowledge, transforming societies
The Norhed Programme 2013 - 2020
Tor Halvorsen, Kristin Skare Orgeret, Roy Krovel
In June 2016, the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (Norhed) hosted a conference on the theme of ‘knowledge for development’ in an attempt to shift the focus of the programme towards its ac…
105 USD
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Understanding higher education
Alternative perspectives
Chrissie Bowie, Sioux McKenna
Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls for transformation have been heard in the university since the last days of apartheid. Similar claims f…
72 USD
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Out of place
An autoethnography of postcolonial citizenship
Nuraan Davids
Out of Place offers an in-depth exploration of Nuraan Davids’ experience as a Muslim ‘coloured’ woman, traversing a post-apartheid space. It centres on and explores a number of themes, which include her challenges not only as a South African citizen…
69 USD
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Reframing Africa?
Reflections on modernity and the moving image
Pervaiz Khan (ed.)
This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notions of modernity in the production and reception of the African moving image and of African archival pra…
78 USD
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Who counts?
Ghanaian Academic Publishing and Global Science
Since the 1990s, global academic publishing has been transformed by digitisation, consolidation and the rise of the internet. The data produced by commercially-owned citation indexes increasingly defines legitimate academic knowledge. Publication in…
77 USD
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Open learning as a means of advancing social justice
Cases in post-school education and training in South Africa
Tabisa Mayisela (ed.)
This volume investigates the uptake of ‘open learning’ in South African Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges and higher education institutions. Comprised of 16 studies focused on activities at a range of colleges and universit…
85 USD
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African science granting councils
Towards sustainable development in Africa
Teboho Moja, Samuel Kehinde Okunade
This book delves into the research-policy nexus as it relates to development in Africa. It does so by examining four country-cases - Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya and Zambia - while referring to South Africa as a possible exemplar case.
73 USD
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From memory to marble. The historical frieze of the Voortrekker Monument
The Frieze
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Part I
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Elizabeth Rankin, Rolf Michael Schneider
From Memory to Marble is an investigation by an art historian and an archaeologist into why and how a major monument was created: the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. Built during the rise of Afrikaner Nationalism and inaugurated in 1949, the Monum…
87 USD
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