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    The Calling of Bees: Healing and Hope after Covid-19

    By Zipho Xego and Leslie Bank
    July 12, 2023
    Healing and Hope: Life in South Africa after Covid-19
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    Writing about Sexuality in Maputo, Mozambique in Contemporary Times

    By Sandra Manuel
    March 29, 2021
    Doing More on Sexuality Series: Writing about Sexuality in Mozambique
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    Culture, Covid and Social Cohesion in Rural Southern Africa

    By Leslie Bank
    March 16, 2021
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    The Sociology of Ground Zero: The South African Variant and Colonial Prejudice

    By Leslie Bank
    February 25, 2021
    Colonial prejudice: the sociology of Ground Zero
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    Exhumed Bodies: Reburials and Cultural Resistance in Covid Times

    By Leslie Bank Aneza Madini
    February 10, 2021
    Politics of burial during Covid-19 in South Africa
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    Plastic Bodies, Public Policy and Popular Anger in Rural South Africa

    By Mark Paterson Leslie Bank
    February 2, 2021
    How the South African Government got it wrong on Covid-19 burials
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    Funeral Practices and Cultural Dignity in the Time of Covid

    By Vuyokazi Nelly Sharpley Leslie Bank
    July 31, 2020
    Funeral Practices and Cultural Dignity in the Time of Covid
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    Village Life in Modern Africa – Review of Camila Toulmin’s Land, Investment and Migration: Thirty-five Years of Village Life in Mali

    By Richard Dowden
    June 16, 2020
    Camilla Toulmin documents the deepest historic change that humanity makes; the change from hand-to-mouth farming to modern agriculture.
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    People’s Science and Translocality in South Africa

    By Leslie Bank
    June 15, 2020
    Can failure to take account of social embeddedness of economics account for the mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic?
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    Epidemics and Social Observation: Why Africa Needs a Different Approach to Covid-19

    By Paul Richards
    June 1, 2020
    Why haven’t social factors been more thoroughly scrutinised in the huge upsurge of scientific effort to combat Covid-19?
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