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The place of fans in the sustenance of superstar visibility and the accompanying digital narratives of fandom have been understudied in Nigerian hip-hop. In this study, I engage the intersection of artiste...
Informal settlements (slums) are rapidly growing in the developing world. Teenage parenthood is a key feature in such settlements. The high prevalence of adolescent parenthood in Uganda is worrying and...
This proposed study, which is an extension of my current research, sets out to examine the representations of the chitenje (a wrap-around cloth) in Malawian popular arts, as a site for examining how questions...
Blind or visually impaired people (BVIP) are increasingly encountering difficulties in their daily lives. The urban congestion of our cities makes it even more difficult for them to get around. Existing...
Parity-time (PT) symmetry has attracted a lot of attention in many fields of physics in recent years. Its application is hindered by the stringent requirements on coherent gain balanced with loss.The transition...
Scholarship on mining frontiers tends to be masculine in focus, covering topic such as the centrality of resource extraction in the colonial and post-colonial projects. Most recently, debates have been...
Citizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first great film, D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915); the first musical film, Oscar Hammerstein...
Spinal cord injury unproportionable occurs in young adults with devastating consequences for their physical, mental, social and professional life. It also represents a large financial burden to society...
Gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction has considerable impact on life-quality worldwide. Digestive disorders are often parasite-related in Africa, however, a change in eating habits is now increasing the prevalence...
This project examines the production, enforcement, and impact of the Immorality (Amendment) Act (1950) during apartheid. The Immorality (Amendment) Act prohibited extra–marital interracial sex between...
The communicative, semiotic, creative and relational meanings surrounding food expand understandings of power dynamics, identity-constitution and discursive perceptions of “being human”. Using food...
The connection of obesity with major chronic diseases and causes of death is well-known, but knowledge is scarce for rarer diseases, and for other obesity-related markers than a single measure of body...