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PI-Effects in South Bantu: Consonant Changes Due to a Preceding Front Close Vowel

Languages
An important set of sound changes affected the South Bantu languages through the impact of front vowels on following consonants, most notably under the form of the class 5 nominal prefix *i-.
Jeffrey Wills
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The Made‐in‐Africa Evaluation framework: A decolonial approach to program evaluation

American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 78, Issue 1-2, Page 57-78, September 2026.
Abstract The Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) framework is a decolonial approach to program evaluation developed by African evaluators over the past 14 years. MAE may be appropriate to community psychologists who practice program evaluation or conduct research in Africa, but little is known about its implementation.
Takatso Sibanda, Robin Lin Miller
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 490-498, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Relatability as a Racialised Construct in Corporate Graduate Recruitment: Revealing a Hidden Mechanism of Labour Market Exclusion for Black African Youth in South Africa

The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 812-828, September 2026.
ABSTRACT In corporate graduate recruitment worldwide, candidates are often assessed not only on competence but on whether they are deemed relatable. This study theorises relatability as a racialised cultural–affective filter that covertly sustains inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we identify five interlinked processes of self‐presentation,
Sifiso Mthembu, Kurt April, Cihat Erbil, Mustafa F. Özbilgin   +3 more
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Accessing the Greek Verbal System Through the Shona Verb: Toward a Bantu Approach to Biblical Languages

Pan-African Journal of Theology
As with any other language, mastering biblical languages such as Greek remains a challenge in Africa. Meanwhile, many African languages hold keys to a better experience in teaching and learning biblical languages. Accordingly, this study proposes a Bantu-
Watson Mbiriri
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Delphi Participant as an Ancestor: Introducing the Ubuntu Intergenerational Primer for Mitigating Future Discounting Bias in Southern Africa Collectivist Culture

FUTURES &FORESIGHT SCIENCE, Volume 8, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces the Ubuntu Intergenerational Primer (UIP), a culturally grounded cognitive debiasing intervention designed to mitigate future discounting bias among Real‐Time Delphi (RTD) participants in Southern Africa. Learning from prior research engagements and informed by the region's cultural settings, we innovated around the Rip ...
Simbarashe Nhokovedzo, Norbert Kolos, Petri Tapio, Geci Karuri‐Sebina   +3 more
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Inheritance and Contact in the Development of Lateral Obstruents in Nguni Languages (S40)

Languages
This study investigates the development of the lateral fricatives and affricates, to which we jointly refer as ‘lateral obstruents’, in Nguni (S40) languages of Southern Africa.
Nina van der Vlugt, Hilde Gunnink
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The forgotten structure of Ikalanga relatives

Studies in African Linguistics, 2009
Demuth and Harford (1999) contend that in Bantu relatives, the verb raises from I-C if the relative morpheme is a bound morpheme while the subject remains in spec-IP resulting in subject –verb inversion.
Rose Letsholo
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A Critical Analysis of Secondary Victims' Preferred Method of Reporting Crime in a South African Township

Sexuality, Gender &Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Digital communication has facilitated freedom of expression in various contexts worldwide. Digitalized communication is a form of expression that has become the norm worldwide despite cybercrime and other challenges. Communication preferences for social media determine attitudes to reporting crime.
Nomsa Ingrid Zikalala
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Last of the JEDI's: “Coloured” Women's Active Representation in Apartheid's Public Education Sector

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1569-1579, July 2026.
ABSTRACT The South African apartheid regime racially organized society into race categories—one being “Coloured” to denote people of mixed‐race heritage. The term “Coloured,” even in contemporary South Africa, is a contentious categorization given the racist legacy of apartheid. This article documents the lives of “Coloured” women who struggled against
Karen Johnston
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