Sibanga, Sebastian Sinvula(Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), 2019-10)
This study investigated the concept of Ubuntu as portrayed in David Ndjavera’s selected plays ‘The Evil That People Do’, ‘I’ll Marry Who I Want’ and ‘Burning Issues…’. Through theatre, Ndjavera not only dramatises and ...
Schulz, Stefan(Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), 2020-11-19)
The following text presents content, taken from a more extensive piece of work on the issue; the text hereafter has been prepared for the UNISA Webinar “Modern Trends in Corrections”, held at MS Teams on 19 November 2020. ...
Kamanda, Clerens(Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), 2019-10)
The study explored language use, social consciousness messages, and the potential of spoken word in reviving oral art forms in Namibia. This was a qualitative study grounded on the Systemic Functional Linguistics theory ...
Sibanga, Irene Lumba(Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), 2019-10)
This study was an ecofeminist reading of selected black female writers’ autobiographical works (Unbowed: A Memoir [UM] (2007) by Kenyan, Wangari Maathai, Nervous Conditions [NC] (1988) by Zimbabwean, Tsitsi Dangaremba, and ...
Tjijoro, Alfeus Kaporise Uaundjomuinjo(Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), 2020-01)
The research presents a decolonial critical analysis of three Southern African novels written between 1971 and 2002. The three authors namely, Bessie Head, Zakes Mda and Wally Serote provide an unflinching gaze at inferiorised ...
Shaumana, Jona(Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), 2019-10)
At the University of Namibia Southern Campus, students commit recurrent written errors in daily tasks as well as examinations. This poor writing proficiency has been a great concern to the University of Namibia as the ...
Woldemariam, Haileleul Zeleke; Gawas, Emelda(Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), 2020-08)
This study examined the pedagogic relevance of post-independent Namibian literature assessing the texts selected for tertiary and high school studies and evaluating course delivery methodologies. The study engaged chiefly ...
During its colonial rule in Namibia, Germany committed what is widely considered to be the first genocide of the twentieth century—the genocide of the Herero and Nama people. Although the said genocide took place over a ...
Mare, Admire; Moyo, Dumisani; Chasi, Colin; Rodny-Gumede, Ylva; Makamani, Rewai; Tsarwe, Stanley; Jaji, Rose; Mapudzi, Hatikanganwi; Mpofu, Nkosinothando; Ellis, Hugh; Peel, Clayton(Department of Communication, Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST)., 2019)
This publication is based on presentations delivered at a media, conflict and peacebuilding
training workshop aimed at building the capacity of African journalists to report on conflict and
peacebuilding in Southern ...
David, Ndapunikwa Desdelia(Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), 2020-02)
This study examined the influence that patriarchy has on society and how it has affected women’s representation in literary works. Thus, the study focused on a feminist stylistics study of the representation of women in ...
Ntinda, Loise Panduleni(Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), 2020-02)
The study explored the meaning conveyed by the use of different metafunctions of language in Amathila’s Making a Difference and Ekandjo’s The Jungle Fighter. The study, through the Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) ...
The guest lecture presents theory and practical aspects for successful application of intercultural communication competency in a diverse working environment.
This presentation was part of a guest lecture on culture and diversity in the workplace at NUST given in December 2018 at FH Joanneum University of Applied Science, Graz, Austria.
Autobiographical writing is the narration of one’s own life. This simple act which
entails the retrospective narrative in prose has become one of the most contested
issues in written discourses. Using Jane Katjavivi’s ...
Contemporary post-colonial writers are increasingly, through their fiction, delineating suppressed and occluded histories which do not form a part of the dominant “Grand Narratives” of a nation. Such writing has been ...
This paper examines the industrial attachment course Work-Integrated-Learning (WIL) offered in the Bachelor of Communication programme at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) from a managerial and academic ...
Woldemariam, Haileleul Zeleke(Namibia University of Science & Technology, Faculty of Human Sciences, 2015-06)
The major objective of this research was to evaluate the relevance of pragmatics stylistics (PS) in the development of the pragmatic competence (PC) of students through teaching local poetry in English in a tertiary context. ...
Shankule, Korie; Woldemariam, Haileleul Zeleke(Namibia University of Science & Technology, Faculty of Human Sciences, 2015-12)
This article presents an evaluation of the pragmatic competence of high school students in the English as a foreign language context in Ethiopia. Learners in an EFL scenario often find the area of language use difficult. ...
Haimbodi, K N; Woldemariam, Haileleul Zeleke(Jimma: Jimma University, 2019-12)
The Namibian school syllabus covers literature as from the primary level to the highschool although the teachers fail to use appropriate methodologies and models tointerpretand present literary texts creating uplifting ...