Browsing by Subject "culture"
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Challenges facing traditional medicine: towards new approaches for protecting and promoting Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of practitioners in South Africa
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-12-16)Western health care systems are foreign to the African indigenous health care systems. This applies to intellectual property issues related to traditional knowledge. Therefore, the need has arisen to undertake a study on ... -
The challenges of translation in bridging divisions among cultures
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-04-25)This paper is about the role of translation as a mediating process between texts that are couched in the languages of different cultures in contact. The etymology of the word "contact" goes back to the Latin verb "tango", ... -
Exploring how cultural product design models from China/Taiwan can contribute to the design of culturally relevant products in Botswana
(University of Botswana; www.ub.bw, 2015)Contemporary design involves not only technical standards and functional needs, but also conveys the ideologies and cultural phenomena in a particular society. Botswana’s National Development Plan 10 indicates that the ... -
Gender and HIV/AIDS in Botswana: Thirty years later
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2016-12-29)The first case of HIV in Botswana was recorded in 1985. For over three decades Botswana experienced one of the highest rates of HIV in the world, with women being the most affected by the virus. This paper discusses the ... -
Introduction: current patterns of language use, culture and identity in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-12-05)Introductory note -
Looking in the mirror: The cultural experiences of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-12-31)Abstract Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness that affects people from all walks of life. Individuals attach meaning to their illness based on their cultural point of view. For some traditional black South ... -
Soils, science and the politics of knowledge: how African smallholder farmers are framed and situated in the global debates on integrated soil fertility management
(Elsevier, http://www.elsevier.com/, 2013)The paper addresses an important and often overlooked cultural aspect of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This relates to how different policy organisations conceptualise soil management problem, its ... -
Taboos as a socialization, acculturation and communication strategy among the Bayei of Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-12-05)This paper aims at documenting and analyzing the use of taboos as a strategy for socialization, acculturation and communication among members of the Bayei community in North Western Botswana. It is an assessment of how the ... -
Teaching Shakespeare's sonnets in Botswana: the challenges of culturally-inscribed symbolism
(University of Botswana; www.ub.bw, 2015-04-02)In the English speaking world, the teaching of Shakespeare has historically been lauded as a prerequisite for cultural sophistication, and despite the 21st Century’s post-colonially sensitive African academia, it remains ... -
Traduire pour promouvoir et preserver les langues minoritaires et regionales AU Botswana
(University of Suceava in Romania, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C8%98tefan_cel_Mare_University_of_Suceava, 2015-06)In this article, we argue that the development of translation in Botswana could aid in preserving and promoting minority and regional languages. Indeed, one major problem encountered by minority ...