Ikechukwu Umejesi
Biographic Data
| ID | 342938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ikechukwu Umejesi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ikechukwu |
| FAMILY NAME | Umejesi |
| SIGNATURE | UMEJESI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Fort Hare |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7757-0445 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Inflation targeting and the rapid expansion of the South African economy
Since the country implemented an inflation‐targeting strategy 20 years ago, both actual and expected inflation in South Africa have decreased. However, economic growth has remained at its lowest compared to a decade ago. It is unclear if whether inflation targeting is solely to blame for this decline or whether it has been successful in stabilising other macroeconomic variables and growth. The main objective of this study is to investigate whethe…
The Water Emergency in Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa: A Climate Change or Governance Crisis
Ethical leadership and sustainable development in South Africa: Pathways to a Resilient Future
The intersection of ethical leadership and sustainable development has become increasingly critical in South Africa’s complex socio-economic landscape. The study identifies key ethical leadership practices that have contributed to successful sustainable development initiatives through focus group discussions with 35 key stakeholders from the government, non-governmental organisations, and businesses. The findings highlight that ethical leadership…
Synchronous online learning and career readiness in higher education: Student perceptions, challenges, and solutions
Synchronous Online Learning (SOL) environments have rapidly transformed the educational landscape. However, there is limited research on their efficacy in equipping students with the necessary skills to succeed in the workforce, particularly in developing essential professional skills like digital literacy, interpersonal communication, and practical experience. This study explores how SOL impacts students’ readiness for the workforce and the deve…
Life as struggle: A narrative of coping strategies of elderly refugees in South Africa
in africa, the social displacement resulting in migrations has caused different levels of vulnerability for the refugees and governments of host countries.in South africa, with one of the highest numbers of refugees in africa, contention for socio-economic space and cultural differences occasionally result in violence between refugees and local people.For the elderly refugees, risk exposure and hardship have generated interest from scholars and o…
Indigenous Knowledge in Entrepreneurship and Cultural Tourism in the Rural Areas
This study investigates the influence of indigenous knowledge systems on indigenous entrepreneurship and sustainability practices. Through a deductive approach, qualitative data was collected from fifteen business owners using systematic random sampling. Extensive one-on-one interviews and focus group discussions were conducted to gather in-depth perspectives. The findings reveal that a significant proportion of the entrepreneurs actively incorpo…
Host Communities and Elderly Refugees in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Discourse of Conflict and Peaceful Co-Existence
Against current debates that the relationships between the host communities and the displaced elderly community are conflictual and friendly, the paper argues that the host community may either be hostile or warm to the displaced elderly refugees. Against this backdrop, this study examines the relationship between host communities and elderly refugees in post-Apartheid South Africa. A qualitative research design was used to collect data from the …
The Public Accounts of a ‘Private’ Act: Domestic Violence in the Eyes of Mamelodi, a South African Township
Domestic violence against women is a serious social and public health problem facing women in South Africa and other countries. This social malaise in South Africa is often seen as “private” – committed within the home space, or “imperceptible” to the public. In other words, domestic violence is framed as a phenomenon that takes place exclusively behind the closed doors of the home. This study contends with this notion of “imperceptibility” in th…
Uranium mining and sense of community in the Great Karoo: Insights from local narratives
Risks and vulnerability in uranium mining: A synthesis of local perspectives in the Great Karoo region of South Africa
Collective memory, coloniality and resource ownership questions: The conflict of identities in postcolonial Nigeria
The indigenous concepts of ‘public’, ‘identity’ and ‘ownership’ of natural resources in precolonial Nigeria were redefined with the evolution of the Nigerian nation state. In Eastern Nigeria, for example, the ‘public’ and ‘national identity’ revolved around small independent communities. These communities, within the ethnic space, owned the resources within their borders. However, the creation of the Nigerian state by British colonialism reconsti…
Blame it on alcohol: ‘Passing the Buck’ on Domestic Violence and Addiction
Domestic violence against women is a serious health and safety problem facing women around the world. Scholars of domestic violence have identified demographic factors such as age, number of children, family structure, unemployment, substance abuse, stress factors within the family, male partner’s educational attainment and poverty, as closely associated with domestic violence. While these factors have gained scholarly recognition, there is a dom…
Small Towns and Small Enterprises: A Study of Workplace Relations in a Rural Town in South Africa
Scholarly literature on Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs) view small scale businesses as employment generators, skills developers, and therefore, contributors to economic growth and poverty reduction. While this notion dominates scholarship and policy circles, it ignores other issues that are inherent in managementlabour relations in SMMEs. This study explores the vulnerability of workers in small businesses. It examines the factors con…
Oil Exploration and Local Opposition in Colonial Nigeria: Understanding the Roots of Contemporary State-Community Conflict in the Niger Delta
Scholarly and public analyses of oil conflict in Nigeria, especially its origins, often do not interrogate the nature and forms of relationships that evolved among the inland communities of South-Eastern Nigeria (where oil exploration began in the 1930s); the colonial state and the pioneer oil explorer, Shell D'Arcy; and the implications of these relationships for the management of the oil exploration process in Nigeria. This article explores the…
Risks and vulnerability in uranium mining: A synthesis of local perspectives in the Great Karoo region of South Africa
Indigenous Knowledge in Entrepreneurship and Cultural Tourism in the Rural Areas
This study investigates the influence of indigenous knowledge systems on indigenous entrepreneurship and sustainability practices. Through a deductive approach, qualitative data was collected from fifteen business owners using systematic random sampling. Extensive one-on-one interviews and focus group discussions were conducted to gather in-depth perspectives. The findings reveal that a significant proportion of the entrepreneurs actively incorpo…
Uranium mining and sense of community in the Great Karoo: Insights from local narratives
Oil Exploration and Local Opposition in Colonial Nigeria: Understanding the Roots of Contemporary State-Community Conflict in the Niger Delta
Scholarly and public analyses of oil conflict in Nigeria, especially its origins, often do not interrogate the nature and forms of relationships that evolved among the inland communities of South-Eastern Nigeria (where oil exploration began in the 1930s); the colonial state and the pioneer oil explorer, Shell D'Arcy; and the implications of these relationships for the management of the oil exploration process in Nigeria. This article explores the…
Small Towns and Small Enterprises: A Study of Workplace Relations in a Rural Town in South Africa
Scholarly literature on Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs) view small scale businesses as employment generators, skills developers, and therefore, contributors to economic growth and poverty reduction. While this notion dominates scholarship and policy circles, it ignores other issues that are inherent in managementlabour relations in SMMEs. This study explores the vulnerability of workers in small businesses. It examines the factors con…
Collective memory, coloniality and resource ownership questions: The conflict of identities in postcolonial Nigeria
The indigenous concepts of ‘public’, ‘identity’ and ‘ownership’ of natural resources in precolonial Nigeria were redefined with the evolution of the Nigerian nation state. In Eastern Nigeria, for example, the ‘public’ and ‘national identity’ revolved around small independent communities. These communities, within the ethnic space, owned the resources within their borders. However, the creation of the Nigerian state by British colonialism reconsti…
Blame it on alcohol: ‘Passing the Buck’ on Domestic Violence and Addiction
Domestic violence against women is a serious health and safety problem facing women around the world. Scholars of domestic violence have identified demographic factors such as age, number of children, family structure, unemployment, substance abuse, stress factors within the family, male partner’s educational attainment and poverty, as closely associated with domestic violence. While these factors have gained scholarly recognition, there is a dom…
Uranium mining and sense of community in the Great Karoo: Insights from local narratives
Risks and vulnerability in uranium mining: A synthesis of local perspectives in the Great Karoo region of South Africa
The Public Accounts of a ‘Private’ Act: Domestic Violence in the Eyes of Mamelodi, a South African Township
Domestic violence against women is a serious social and public health problem facing women in South Africa and other countries. This social malaise in South Africa is often seen as “private” – committed within the home space, or “imperceptible” to the public. In other words, domestic violence is framed as a phenomenon that takes place exclusively behind the closed doors of the home. This study contends with this notion of “imperceptibility” in th…
Host Communities and Elderly Refugees in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Discourse of Conflict and Peaceful Co-Existence
Against current debates that the relationships between the host communities and the displaced elderly community are conflictual and friendly, the paper argues that the host community may either be hostile or warm to the displaced elderly refugees. Against this backdrop, this study examines the relationship between host communities and elderly refugees in post-Apartheid South Africa. A qualitative research design was used to collect data from the …
Synchronous online learning and career readiness in higher education: Student perceptions, challenges, and solutions
Synchronous Online Learning (SOL) environments have rapidly transformed the educational landscape. However, there is limited research on their efficacy in equipping students with the necessary skills to succeed in the workforce, particularly in developing essential professional skills like digital literacy, interpersonal communication, and practical experience. This study explores how SOL impacts students’ readiness for the workforce and the deve…
Life as struggle: A narrative of coping strategies of elderly refugees in South Africa
in africa, the social displacement resulting in migrations has caused different levels of vulnerability for the refugees and governments of host countries.in South africa, with one of the highest numbers of refugees in africa, contention for socio-economic space and cultural differences occasionally result in violence between refugees and local people.For the elderly refugees, risk exposure and hardship have generated interest from scholars and o…
Indigenous Knowledge in Entrepreneurship and Cultural Tourism in the Rural Areas
This study investigates the influence of indigenous knowledge systems on indigenous entrepreneurship and sustainability practices. Through a deductive approach, qualitative data was collected from fifteen business owners using systematic random sampling. Extensive one-on-one interviews and focus group discussions were conducted to gather in-depth perspectives. The findings reveal that a significant proportion of the entrepreneurs actively incorpo…
Inflation targeting and the rapid expansion of the South African economy
Since the country implemented an inflation‐targeting strategy 20 years ago, both actual and expected inflation in South Africa have decreased. However, economic growth has remained at its lowest compared to a decade ago. It is unclear if whether inflation targeting is solely to blame for this decline or whether it has been successful in stabilising other macroeconomic variables and growth. The main objective of this study is to investigate whethe…
The Water Emergency in Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa: A Climate Change or Governance Crisis
Ethical leadership and sustainable development in South Africa: Pathways to a Resilient Future
The intersection of ethical leadership and sustainable development has become increasingly critical in South Africa’s complex socio-economic landscape. The study identifies key ethical leadership practices that have contributed to successful sustainable development initiatives through focus group discussions with 35 key stakeholders from the government, non-governmental organisations, and businesses. The findings highlight that ethical leadership…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)