Alinah Segobye
Biographic Data
| ID | 4863325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alinah Segobye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alinah |
| FAMILY NAME | Segobye |
| SIGNATURE | SEGOBYE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Botswana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The psychological significance of female traditional initiation rites among the Bakopa community of South Africa: A qualitative approach to the understanding of koma ya basadi
The study underlines the importance of preserving and respecting cultural practices like traditional female initiation. It highlights the need for further research to understand their implications for individual and community wellbeing. These findings have significant implications for policymakers, healthcare providers, and community leaders in promoting cultural sensitivity and supporting the holistic development of young women
A Survey of Women in Botswana History: Individual Pioneers, Institutions and Advocacy Movements From the Pre‐Colonial Period to 2024
Women have played a critical role in Botswana's development since precolonial times. However, patriarchal socio‐political systems have limited their contributions to the country's rapid economic growth in the post‐colony. This paper discusses women's contributions in areas such as public office, missionary service, education, politics, women's rights, community service, media, beauty pageantry, athletics, and entrepreneurship. It also highlights …
Genders, sexualities and Religious Education
Genders, sexualities and Religious EducationToday, issues of genders and sexualities are contested, in the Global South as well as the Global North.Being inextricably interwoven with cultural practices, social attitudes, political ideologies and religious convictions, in education issues of genders and sexualities, needs clarification, critical examination and considered debates.Evidently, matters of genders and sexualities have strong repercussi…
Reflections on the University in Africa: The Role of the Past in Education
Divided commons: The political economy of Southern Africa's cultural heritage landscapes—Observations of the central Kalahari game reserve, Botswana
The use of culturally themed HIV messages and their implications for future behaviour change communication campaigns: The case of Botswana
The 'ABC' approach promoted at the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Botswana has failed to yield significant behaviour change. Formative research was conducted in urban, semi-urban and rural areas to explore how the use of sociocultural messages depicted in posters elicited people's response to HIV/AIDS-related behaviours. The research interrogated values and practices underpinning Tswana philosophy in relation to parent-child communication,…
The revolution Will be televised1: African archaeology education and the challenge of public archaeology— Some examples from southern africa2
Archaeology and education in Botswana
It is often argued that formal education is good in itself but for many, especially in the &s;Third World&s;, this aspect of western culture is only seen as a means to a livelihood. Parents strive so hard to send their children to school, even when their family is poor, because they see this as the only inheritance they can leave their children. Many children, too, realize early in their lives that the only way to material success is through scho…
Politics, Society and Trade on the Eastern Margins of the Kalahari
This paper reviews the archaeology of the eastern margins of the Kalahari and considers the influence of the major sites ofthe Limpopo-Shashe confluence on these areas. By adopting the theoretical concept of Kopytoff's fidntier model, consideration is given to the nature of interaction and the likely signiJicance of the symbolic meanings of material culture. This treatment suggests that future analyses will benejt from examining regional material…
An ivory cache from Botswana
Research at Mosu I. northern Botswana, has discovered a 10th-century AD ivory cache. Although small, this is one of the largest single concentrations of ivory recovered from southern Africa. Consideration of other occurrences suggests that ivory was prepared throughout the area and traded as finished bangles
Of Revelation and Revolution: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier
Archaeology Africa
Tswana architecture and responses to colonialism
When considering the nature of culture contact and colonialism it is as important to study the continuities in the host society, as it is to study the impositions made by incoming peoples. The diverse relationships between colonised and colonising societies are likely to be played out in aspects of material culture. This study examines Ntsweng and Phalatswe, two Tswana settlements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the period o…
Implications of prehistoric glassy biomass slag from east-central Botswana
Mixed Farming Economies in east-central Botswana from the tenth century AD (summary)
Historical Dictionary of Botswana. New edition
Journal Article Historical Dictionary of Botswana. New edition Get access Historical Dictionary of Botswana. New edition, by Fred Morton, Andrew Murray and Geoff Ramsay. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, 1989. xxvi + 266 pp. £28.05 hardback. ISBN 0 8108 2224 5. ALINAH KELO SEGOBYE ALINAH KELO SEGOBYE University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 90, Issue 358, January 1991, Page …
Tswana architecture and responses to colonialism
When considering the nature of culture contact and colonialism it is as important to study the continuities in the host society, as it is to study the impositions made by incoming peoples. The diverse relationships between colonised and colonising societies are likely to be played out in aspects of material culture. This study examines Ntsweng and Phalatswe, two Tswana settlements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the period o…
Implications of prehistoric glassy biomass slag from east-central Botswana
An ivory cache from Botswana
Research at Mosu I. northern Botswana, has discovered a 10th-century AD ivory cache. Although small, this is one of the largest single concentrations of ivory recovered from southern Africa. Consideration of other occurrences suggests that ivory was prepared throughout the area and traded as finished bangles
The revolution Will be televised1: African archaeology education and the challenge of public archaeology— Some examples from southern africa2
The use of culturally themed HIV messages and their implications for future behaviour change communication campaigns: The case of Botswana
The 'ABC' approach promoted at the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Botswana has failed to yield significant behaviour change. Formative research was conducted in urban, semi-urban and rural areas to explore how the use of sociocultural messages depicted in posters elicited people's response to HIV/AIDS-related behaviours. The research interrogated values and practices underpinning Tswana philosophy in relation to parent-child communication,…
Historical Dictionary of Botswana. New edition
Journal Article Historical Dictionary of Botswana. New edition Get access Historical Dictionary of Botswana. New edition, by Fred Morton, Andrew Murray and Geoff Ramsay. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, 1989. xxvi + 266 pp. £28.05 hardback. ISBN 0 8108 2224 5. ALINAH KELO SEGOBYE ALINAH KELO SEGOBYE University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 90, Issue 358, January 1991, Page …
Mixed Farming Economies in east-central Botswana from the tenth century AD (summary)
Implications of prehistoric glassy biomass slag from east-central Botswana
Tswana architecture and responses to colonialism
When considering the nature of culture contact and colonialism it is as important to study the continuities in the host society, as it is to study the impositions made by incoming peoples. The diverse relationships between colonised and colonising societies are likely to be played out in aspects of material culture. This study examines Ntsweng and Phalatswe, two Tswana settlements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the period o…
Archaeology Africa
Of Revelation and Revolution: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier
Politics, Society and Trade on the Eastern Margins of the Kalahari
This paper reviews the archaeology of the eastern margins of the Kalahari and considers the influence of the major sites ofthe Limpopo-Shashe confluence on these areas. By adopting the theoretical concept of Kopytoff's fidntier model, consideration is given to the nature of interaction and the likely signiJicance of the symbolic meanings of material culture. This treatment suggests that future analyses will benejt from examining regional material…
An ivory cache from Botswana
Research at Mosu I. northern Botswana, has discovered a 10th-century AD ivory cache. Although small, this is one of the largest single concentrations of ivory recovered from southern Africa. Consideration of other occurrences suggests that ivory was prepared throughout the area and traded as finished bangles
Archaeology and education in Botswana
It is often argued that formal education is good in itself but for many, especially in the &s;Third World&s;, this aspect of western culture is only seen as a means to a livelihood. Parents strive so hard to send their children to school, even when their family is poor, because they see this as the only inheritance they can leave their children. Many children, too, realize early in their lives that the only way to material success is through scho…
The revolution Will be televised1: African archaeology education and the challenge of public archaeology— Some examples from southern africa2
Divided commons: The political economy of Southern Africa's cultural heritage landscapes—Observations of the central Kalahari game reserve, Botswana
The use of culturally themed HIV messages and their implications for future behaviour change communication campaigns: The case of Botswana
The 'ABC' approach promoted at the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Botswana has failed to yield significant behaviour change. Formative research was conducted in urban, semi-urban and rural areas to explore how the use of sociocultural messages depicted in posters elicited people's response to HIV/AIDS-related behaviours. The research interrogated values and practices underpinning Tswana philosophy in relation to parent-child communication,…
Reflections on the University in Africa: The Role of the Past in Education
Genders, sexualities and Religious Education
Genders, sexualities and Religious EducationToday, issues of genders and sexualities are contested, in the Global South as well as the Global North.Being inextricably interwoven with cultural practices, social attitudes, political ideologies and religious convictions, in education issues of genders and sexualities, needs clarification, critical examination and considered debates.Evidently, matters of genders and sexualities have strong repercussi…
The psychological significance of female traditional initiation rites among the Bakopa community of South Africa: A qualitative approach to the understanding of koma ya basadi
The study underlines the importance of preserving and respecting cultural practices like traditional female initiation. It highlights the need for further research to understand their implications for individual and community wellbeing. These findings have significant implications for policymakers, healthcare providers, and community leaders in promoting cultural sensitivity and supporting the holistic development of young women
A Survey of Women in Botswana History: Individual Pioneers, Institutions and Advocacy Movements From the Pre‐Colonial Period to 2024
Women have played a critical role in Botswana's development since precolonial times. However, patriarchal socio‐political systems have limited their contributions to the country's rapid economic growth in the post‐colony. This paper discusses women's contributions in areas such as public office, missionary service, education, politics, women's rights, community service, media, beauty pageantry, athletics, and entrepreneurship. It also highlights …
Archaeology (9 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · History (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (3 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works)