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    Are we doing enough in Diabetes Care? Lessons from a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Investigation
    (2018-11-01) Ekotto, F.; Frehiwot, M.
    In this documentary, Marthe Djilo Kamga takes us along as she engages in fruitful conversations with four other African female artists who, like her, know exile as well as how necessary it is to transmit to younger generations what they have learned as their multiple identities have evolved and fused. The original score that accompanies the voices of these three generations of women is an active part of the adventure, a witness for the future. The conversations are connected by key themes of cultural heritage, historical memory and how images shape personal and collective memories. Vibrancy of Silence: A Discussion with My Sisters is the first installment of Frieda Ekotto’s visual research project Vibrancy of Silence: Archiving the Images and Cultural Production of Sub-Saharan African Women on African women as the unsung heroines of artistic and cultural production. Indeed, their immense cultural and creative contributions remain underrepresented and inexplicably invisible. She is resolved to affirm and archive her own story and thus participate in a rereading of the “Colonial Library” with new kinds of narratives by and for women
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    Rendition of Proper Names in Translation: Transcription or Transliteration?
    (2018-11-01) Ekotto, F.; Frehiwot, M.
    All human languages have complex history with individual words. Speakers of any given language will often have occasion to self-consciously utilize another language’s terms within their speech. The paper deals with rendition of proper names in the process of translation. Our examples include personal first names, surnames, as well as general words which cause difficulties in the process of translation. In fact, the incorporation of foreign words into a language, has significant differences in terms of the different types of words, and different languages in different socio-political circumstances. We analyze this phenomenon in order to find out whether transliteration or transcription should be used in the process of translation. The transliteration system must be able to indicate graphical peculiarities that occur in translation process. It should be noted that many languages don’t have traditions of using their own script to represent foreign language words, but rather only represent these words phonetically. An international standard has evolved for precise phonetic transcription that goes by the abbreviation IPA, or International Phonetic Alphabet. Representing sound with scripts leaves room for disagreement as to the best representation in any given context. Each language is characterized by diverse spoken practices based upon regional location and social class. Thus, any phonetic scheme must be capable of representing the full spectrum of sounds possible in all variations. Any transcription scheme cannot possibly represent the language in general, but rather can only represent a specific dialect of the language at a specific time period. We came to conclusion that written sources are overall inconsistent in the degree to which they employ systematic transliteration or transcription schemes. With this regard, we consider three broad tendencies: inconsistency, term-based consistency, systematic consistency.
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    At the Crossroads: Educated Women Negotiating Marital Dilemmas to Remain afloat in Urban Uganda
    (2019-03-07) Musiimenta, P.; Frehiwot, M.
    The article examines the lived experiences of educated Ugandan women with respect to the multiple negotiations associated with career and reproductive (roles as mothers and wives) demands. Drawing on qualitative data set from a large study conducted for a PhD award in 2014, the article analyses how women constructed as privileged negotiate work and marriage dilemmas as active agents within a demanding patriarchal setting. The findings show that despite their being educated, which put them at the apex of social hierarchy, visibly privileged and liberated, women continue to experience subordination in a more nuanced manner that creates dilemmas emanating from the unchanging patriarchal order. Rather than giving up and lamenting as victims of redefined subordination, they remain afloat, ably growing, moving and succeeding with their families against all odds. This study recommends that gender equality scholarship should pay more attention to unchanging social norms, practices and attitudes particularly in marital relations because what happens in marital relations may greatly affect the work life of women.
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    Pan-Africanism and the Intelligentsia: the role of the African Academy in the Pan-African Movement
    (2019-04-04) Frehiwot, M.; Siakwah, P.
    The Pan-African Movement (PAM) has historically been linked with the African intelligentsia who have played pivotal roles in the idea and practice of Pan-Africanism. The historically recognized leaders of the PAM including Kwame Ture, W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Shirley Graham Dubois, Amy Ashwood Garvey, George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah are all part of the Revolutionary PAM Intelligentsia. The African Academy has also played a major role in the evolution of the PAM’s ideological advancement from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to African Studies Institutes in Universities on the African Continent. However, the collective African academy is all but currently absent in the larger PAM. The PAM is dominated by individuals and enervated organisations promoting Pan-Africanism often from a micro-nationalist perspective that is loosely connected to the larger PAM. This is not to assert that there is no Pan-African activity occurring in or around the University campus, but this activity is both disconnected in nature and form, and often characterised by rootless ideological standpoint as well as detached from the larger PAM. Importantly, the paper argues that both the instrumental and intrinsic capabilities of the African Academy are minimally explored. Therefore, this paper interrogates the role of the African Academy in the Pan-African Movement historically and in a contemporary sense. It asserts that a new strategy must be developed for the PAM to mature beyond its current state (or how it is viewed by the masses) as a movement of the past to a fledging movement for transformation and consolidation of Global Africa.
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    “I can’t Extend my Rights to the Church”: Examining Abuses in Ghanaian Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches
    (2019-04-25) Nrenzah, G.; Frehiwot, M.
    According to UN Universal Declaration of Human Right, Article 1, “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights…” meaning all humans anywhere in the world must enjoy that right, contrarily to that is an abuse of human right. Most African countries have signed the UN convention, yet it will seem however that human rights have become a ‘relative’ term, as enjoyment of that rights depends on where one finds him/herself. Human right seems implausible in Ghana as the rights of religious clients or members are abused daily. This is so because the private is not so much linked to the public. Religion is practiced in freedom according to the 1992 constitution without the government’s supervision. Religious agents, especially leaders are on their own and willingly violates the right of clients or members within the religious space- verbally, sexually and economically. The religious spaces are often unquestionable as clients/members, individuals or the state machinery are silent on the happenings there. Human Rights can be said to have two operational sides- the right of a person in public and the ‘no’ right for the other in the religious space. While all religious forms in Ghana are complicit in these acts, the most common incidences take place within Pentecostalism/ Charismatic strand-the most influential Christian form in Ghana. This paper focuses on the diverse forms of abuses of female members or clients of selected Pentecostal-charismatic churches in Ghana and the implications these abuses have for human rights.