Ayub Sheik
Biographic Data
| ID | 6596631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayub Sheik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayub |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheik |
| SIGNATURE | SHEIK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Language and Media Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8633-3740 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Critical Review of the Oxford Q-Skills Placement Test at a Saudi Arabian University
There is a genuine need to ascertain Saudi Arabian university entrants’ English language abilities upon admission. In order to accurately determine the English language levels of students, this study evaluates the Q-Skills Placement Test (QSPT) designed by Oxford University through the most recent evaluative model in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL); the Cambridge VRIPQ (2013) model. The data used to evaluate the efficacy and predic…
The more than beautiful woman - African folktales of female agency and emancipation
This study draws on examples of African folklore that resist or subvert patriarchal control, manipulation, exclusion and the oppression of women. Folklore is replete with the power relations and stereotypes that manifest in gender. In most cases, women are represented as passive and subservient, relegated to supporting the male protagonist or caricatured as the foreboding and evil witch archetype. The narratives selected here contradict, challeng…
Ritual, cultural politics and the suicides in Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
This study positions itself towards a critical interpretation of suicide in Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman (1975) and its reception in the traditional Yoruba culture of South West Nigeria. Its central thesis is that ritual and culture significantly influence suicide in traditional African society and Yoruba society in particular. This study uses textual analysis as its methodology to probe the historical, cultural and social context of t…
B D Lalla's The Black Coolie
B D Lalla's The Black Coolie (1946 Lalla, B D. 1946. The Black Coolie. Durban: Acme. [Google Scholar]) is a romanticised reverie of the Indian diaspora to the Natal sugar belt. The Black Coolie is graphically suggestive of a racial other, and represents a significant and rare chronicle of the ideological development and expression of the South African Indian migrant community and their realignment in the politics of identity. Lalla's poetry is vi…
Sumptuous lives
In a continent notorious for its cultural negation of sexual rights, the unapologetic and intimate lived experiences of characters that populate this potpourri of short stories are an extraordinary achievement and celebration of sexual minorities. Queer Africa, published in 2013 by MaThoko's Books and edited by Karen Martin and Makhosazana Zaba, is an eye-catching collection of 18 stories that imagine queer Africa in a way certain to raise consci…
Sumptuous lives
In a continent notorious for its cultural negation of sexual rights, the unapologetic and intimate lived experiences of characters that populate this potpourri of short stories are an extraordinary achievement and celebration of sexual minorities. Queer Africa, published in 2013 by MaThoko's Books and edited by Karen Martin and Makhosazana Zaba, is an eye-catching collection of 18 stories that imagine queer Africa in a way certain to raise consci…
The more than beautiful woman - African folktales of female agency and emancipation
This study draws on examples of African folklore that resist or subvert patriarchal control, manipulation, exclusion and the oppression of women. Folklore is replete with the power relations and stereotypes that manifest in gender. In most cases, women are represented as passive and subservient, relegated to supporting the male protagonist or caricatured as the foreboding and evil witch archetype. The narratives selected here contradict, challeng…
B D Lalla's The Black Coolie
B D Lalla's The Black Coolie (1946 Lalla, B D. 1946. The Black Coolie. Durban: Acme. [Google Scholar]) is a romanticised reverie of the Indian diaspora to the Natal sugar belt. The Black Coolie is graphically suggestive of a racial other, and represents a significant and rare chronicle of the ideological development and expression of the South African Indian migrant community and their realignment in the politics of identity. Lalla's poetry is vi…
Sumptuous lives
In a continent notorious for its cultural negation of sexual rights, the unapologetic and intimate lived experiences of characters that populate this potpourri of short stories are an extraordinary achievement and celebration of sexual minorities. Queer Africa, published in 2013 by MaThoko's Books and edited by Karen Martin and Makhosazana Zaba, is an eye-catching collection of 18 stories that imagine queer Africa in a way certain to raise consci…
Ritual, cultural politics and the suicides in Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
This study positions itself towards a critical interpretation of suicide in Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman (1975) and its reception in the traditional Yoruba culture of South West Nigeria. Its central thesis is that ritual and culture significantly influence suicide in traditional African society and Yoruba society in particular. This study uses textual analysis as its methodology to probe the historical, cultural and social context of t…
The more than beautiful woman - African folktales of female agency and emancipation
This study draws on examples of African folklore that resist or subvert patriarchal control, manipulation, exclusion and the oppression of women. Folklore is replete with the power relations and stereotypes that manifest in gender. In most cases, women are represented as passive and subservient, relegated to supporting the male protagonist or caricatured as the foreboding and evil witch archetype. The narratives selected here contradict, challeng…
A Critical Review of the Oxford Q-Skills Placement Test at a Saudi Arabian University
There is a genuine need to ascertain Saudi Arabian university entrants’ English language abilities upon admission. In order to accurately determine the English language levels of students, this study evaluates the Q-Skills Placement Test (QSPT) designed by Oxford University through the most recent evaluative model in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL); the Cambridge VRIPQ (2013) model. The data used to evaluate the efficacy and predic…
Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)