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Showing 1 to 20 of 15421 for “"African"”.
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African-American Attitudes Concerning African-American English
… been significant studies done on the topic of African-American English. For the past quarter-century, a controversy over the recognition, value and use of African-American English has captured the attention of media, professionals, educators and parents nationwide. This study examined the …
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African workplace spirituality in South African mines
… research explores the role of spirituality in an African mining context with specific reference to spinal cord-injured mine workers. In this study, spinal cord-injured, black male South African workers were interviewed using a specifically constructed questionnaire. Their responses were analysed …
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The place of African Renaissance in the South African education
This research focused on describing "The Place of African Renaissance in the South African Education". The motivating factor is how African cultures can be restored through education. The research is intended to explore how the present education system can direct African education when faced with …
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SOUNDS POWERFUL West African Islamic Considerations in African American Song
… to literary discussions. It examines aspects of African American music from a West African and Islamic perspective. The introduction explains how Jungian analytical psychology is adopted as a primary research methodology. In the first chapter, Islamic elements are identified in African American …
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African American Entrepreneurship: Narratives of Fresno County, California, African American Entrepreneurs
<p>The entrepreneurial spirit of African American has been misunderstood. This dissertation used the voices of 15 African American entrepreneurs in Fresno County to reconstruct the historical development and performance of African American entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship developed from the …
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The African Aesthetic, African-American Literature, and The Teaching of English
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:36:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511709.pdf: 14682228 bytes, checksum: 701a272b43fdf5c685df44572db9b4c2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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African creative futures: mainstreaming creativity in the South African skills ecosystem
… key social and cultural factors shared by South African educators, skills ecosystem managers and youth that can guide the implementation of creative education. Furthermore, it seeks to demonstrate potential reforms in creative education through an appropriate praxis model.
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Reconstructing the African and African diasporic woman: gender, race, class and the making of a constructive radical African feminist
<p>This dissertation analyzes the story of the African woman migration from a generational perspective. It discusses Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1979) as the foundation of the African woman’s migration story and the evolvement in the female identity construction. It then uses Chimamanda Ngozi …
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An un-African thing? Same-sex relationships among South African Sangomas, Christian ethics and the discourse on African (protective) homophobia
… and Ethics as it alludes how both Christian and African ethics promotes gender diversity. African Christian ethics, this study draws from the work of various theologians such as Samuel Waje Kunhiyop, “African Christian Ethics”, M.F. Murove, “African ethics: An anthology of comparative and applied …
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An Exploratory Analysis of Conflict in African Immigrant and African American Marriages
… couples in North America. In the same vein, African American couples experience conflicts that militate against the stability of their marriages. Most of these marital upheavals stem from historical antecedents relating to this ethnic group, as well as the societal dialectics confronting …
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Exploring factors influencing Black South African Millennials when considering African Ankara fashion
… have been determinants of leading fashion. African fashion portrays both these elements through the vibrant fabric and culturally inspired pieces of clothing. With Western fashion dominating South African shopping centres, whether the younger and significant black South African Millennial …
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African nationalism in Tanganyika
… political autonomy within a decade of organized African nationalism. July 7, 1954, was a historical day for it was then when the Tanganyika African National Union (T.A.N.U.) was born in Der es Zalasa, the country’s capital, with Julius K. Nyerere as president. From that day one, T.A.N.U. has …
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Insuring the African future
The African growth story has investors from around the world eyeing opportunities offered up by the continent in the form of new markets, enhanced growth potential and impressive returns. Despite the overwhelmingly positive thrust of this message, it finds itself situated against a backdrop of …
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The African burial ground
This thesis is tripartite. It is at once a search for the universal principles of good architecture, an architect's personal search for what is valuable, and the exploration of some particular ideas in a particular project. The successful thesis joins the universal and the particular and calls into …
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Uniting African Philosophy with Traditional African Dance Rituals to Help Heal Mental Health Symptoms from the Impact of the African Diaspora
<p>The mental health challenges of members of the African diaspora have been a worldwide occurrence for centuries, initially beginning with the transatlantic slave trade. Africans were scattered abroad to different countries and subjected to the severe psychological impact of enslavement. Despite …
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African art music for flute: a study of selected works by African composers
… idioms. Though there exist many compositions by African composers, African art music is not often programmed by Western performers because of the lack of exposure these compositions have received, lack of commercially-available recordings, and the difficulties of obtaining information about …
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The South African Prosecution Service: Linchpin of the South African Criminal Justice System
… of the whole criminal justice system. The South African prosecution service in its current shape is relatively young. Constitutional and legislative provisions supplemented by various policy papers have established a framework that in principle allows for an effective and efficient function of …
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The dialectic between African and Black aesthetics in some South African short stories
Most current studies on 'African' and/or 'Black' literature in South Africa appear to ignore the contradictions underlying the valuative concepts 'African' and 'Black'. This (Jamesonian) unconsciousness has led, primarily, to a situation where writers and critics assume generally that the concepts …
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The South African prosecution service: linchpin of the South African criminal justice system?
… of the whole criminal justice system. The South African prosecution service in its current shape is relatively young. Constitutional and legislative provisions supplemented by various policy papers have established a framework that in principle allows for an effective and efficient function of …
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