Emmanuel Kyeremeh, S. Kutor, Eunice Annan-Aggrey, Ismahan Yusuf, G. Arku
{"title":"The double return experience: rationale for return from Canada to Ghana and Ghana to Canada","authors":"Emmanuel Kyeremeh, S. Kutor, Eunice Annan-Aggrey, Ismahan Yusuf, G. Arku","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2023.2194663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2194663","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT What motivates Ghanaian migrants who return from Canada, with the intention to settle permanently in Ghana, to move back to Canada? This study answers this question by exploring the lived experiences of Ghanaian migrants involved in double return migration. Using semi-structured interviews with Ghanaian migrants residing in the Greater Toronto Area, the paper demonstrates the complexity of a double return (return to Ghana and second return to Canada). First, participants identified patriotism, attachment to their homeland, opportunity to contribute to the socio-economic development of their homeland, and employment challenges in Canada as reasons for returning home. Second, participants explained that poor business environment, children’s integration challenges, and social networks and familial ties in the receiving society informed their decision to return to Canada. The results demonstrate a need for sustainable reintegration policies in the receiving and sending societies to enable migrants and returnees to successfully integrate in both contexts.","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"23 1","pages":"369 - 390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89217050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender dynamics in the history of nursing education at Ainsworth Dickson Nurse Training School in Swaziland, 1927–2007","authors":"Shokahle R. Dlamini","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2023.2204239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2204239","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Swaziland the misconception that nursing is a female profession delayed male nurse training at Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital’s Ainsworth Dickson Nurse Training School. Started by the Church of the Nazarene in 1927, nursing training in this school remained exclusively women-centred until 1980, when four male students from the Umbutfo Swaziland Defence Force enrolled. Since then, male nurse training in Swaziland has continued unabated, although at a very low rate. The trifling numbers of men in nursing training from the 1980s to 2007 indicate that this misconception persists. While scholarly attention has been given to female nurse training in Swaziland, nothing has been written on male nurse training. This article investigates how male nurse training was perceived in Swaziland before the 1980s, why male nurse training started in 1980 and how its commencement impacted existing gender stereotypes. It also explores how male nurses were received, especially by patients.","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"25 1","pages":"411 - 429"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77627604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les réseaux sociaux dans la dynamique des conflits au centre du Mali: un exemple de journalisme citoyen à travers la plateforme numérique KI","authors":"M. Togola, Mirjam de Bruijn","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2023.2177689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2177689","url":null,"abstract":"RÉSUMÉ Les nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication (NTIC) ouvrent un espace d’expression à tous. Cet article ébauche les pratiques des réseaux sociaux (RS) numériques dans les conflits au centre du Mali en montrant comment le phénomène en ligne joue dans la création et la polarisation des discours ethniques. Peut-on comprendre ces RS comme des acteurs de médias parallèles sous forme de journalisme citoyen? Les auteurs ont suivi pendant trois ans et analysé l’utilisation des RS par l’organisation KI qui a géré une plateforme de RS comme médias dans les rapportages des conflits au Mali. Leur analyse montre que KI se développe sous forme de journalisme citoyen, d’alerte à un journalisme qui n’est plus objectif et qui prend parti dans le conflit. L’approche des auteurs est la nethnographie, combinée à des observations et interviews hors ligne. Ils essaient de comprendre son interaction avec le conflit et ses interprétations du conflit.","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"3 1 1","pages":"305 - 325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83705143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les corps des tracasseries: circulation, corps et violence sur le corridor Douala–N’Djamena/Bangui","authors":"Calvin Minfegue","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2023.2177688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2177688","url":null,"abstract":"RÉSUMÉ Les barrières routières et les tracasseries y associées sur le corridor Douala–N’Djamena/Bangui ont souvent fait l’objet d’une attention mettant davantage en exergue leurs incidences macro-économiques sur les sociétés. C’est toutefois à un point aveugle de ce regard sur ces tracasseries routières que se consacre cet essai. Il examine leurs effets violents sur les corps des individus, assurant au concret le mouvement productif sur le corridor, à savoir des chauffeurs qui y opèrent. Cette inscription des barrières et tracasseries routières sur les corps d’individus marqués par une assignation sociale particulière, exprime ainsi un ordre de pouvoir porteur de violence.","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"34 1","pages":"283 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85252455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-ethnic vision or ethnic nationalism? The contested legacies of Anderson Mazoka and Zambia’s 2006 election","authors":"Sishuwa Sishuwa","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2023.2196084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2196084","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Studies on elections in Africa’s multiparty democracies stress the role of “incumbency advantages” in the re-election of presidents. While this blanket explanation holds true for the most part, it does not cover the successes of incumbents in polls conducted with minimal levels of clientelism and manipulation. Using the example of Zambia’s 2006 election, this paper shows how incumbents in multi-ethnic societies attempt to build a winning coalition through effective appeals to ethnic inclusion. After the main opposition leader Anderson Mazoka died four months before the election, President Levy Mwanawasa appropriated Mazoka’s legacy as a politician committed to ethnic inclusion. He successfully presented himself in non-ethnic terms, accused his rivals of being tribalists and urged voters to reject them. Mwanawasa won over key sections of the opposition’s base and an election he was widely expected to lose, demonstrating the value of studying the role of individual political leadership in incumbent-party hegemony.","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"25 1","pages":"431 - 457"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77589157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Illusions of Location Theory: Consequences for Blue Economy in Africa","authors":"N. Bohler-Muller","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2023.2197688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2197688","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"271 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84650056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Youth on the Move: Views from Below on Ethiopian International Migration","authors":"M. Breines","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2023.2192449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2192449","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"51 1","pages":"516 - 517"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82377205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TABLISMAN: Histoire de l’industrie sucrière de l’île Maurice","authors":"David Lincoln","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2023.2185177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2185177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"46 1","pages":"514 - 515"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81498887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scream for Me, Africa! Heavy Metal Identities in Post-Colonial Africa","authors":"David G. Pier","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2023.2179174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2179174","url":null,"abstract":"Nyerere and other postcolonial leaders had to make difficult choices in light of persistent economic constraints on imported goods, petrol and other commodities that were essential to a thriving transport infrastructure. Despite – or perhaps through – these challenges, however, the men who dominated the motor transport sector built their conception of personhood through the technological expertise with which they navigated and negotiated the infrastructural constraints and technological challenges of an African motoring society. Masculinity, Grace argues, was connected to and produced through and with the hard materiality of cars, rooted in the claims to expertise and social mobility made by mechanics, drivers and vehicle owners. Grace’s narrative combines detailed case studies with broader national or regional narratives that create what he describes as an “interscalar history” that weaves together the micro, meso and macro (32). In the process, he moves us beyond the typical technological histories of African incorporation or appropriation that Mavhunga decries to reframe the history of development altogether. As such, African Motors marks a major contribution to the history of African automobility, technology and development that is both challenging for experts and accessible for undergraduate students.","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"1976 1","pages":"509 - 512"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90540002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}