Global Space Research Articles

Learning hierarchical embedding space for image-text matching

There are two mainstream strategies for image-text matching at present. The one, termed as joint embedding learning, aims to model the semantic information of both image and sentence in a shared feature subspace, which facilitates the measurement of semantic similarity but only focuses on global alignment relationship. To explore the local semantic relationship more fully, the other one, termed as metric learning, aims to learn a complex similarity function to directly output score of each image-text pair. However, it significantly suffers from more computation burden at retrieval stage. In this paper, we propose a hierarchically joint embedding model to incorporate the local semantic relationship into a joint embedding learning framework. The proposed method learns the shared local and global embedding spaces simultaneously, and models the joint local embedding space with respect to specific local similarity labels which are easy to access from the lexical information of corpus. Unlike the methods based on metric learning, we can prepare the fixed representations of both images and sentences by concatenating the normalized local and global representations, which makes it feasible to perform the efficient retrieval. And experiments show that the proposed model can achieve competitive performance when compared to the existing joint embedding learning models on two publicly available datasets Flickr30k and MS-COCO.

World‐makers and social justice: Strategies of (in)action?

AbstractThis article applies a Bourdieusian lens to a critical analysis of global power dynamics to argue that a field framework is useful for studying praxis and (in)action in complex and dynamic global spaces of decision‐making. It is argued that individuals with global power can interact strategically to change their actions for improved social and economic justice, but it requires resisting dominant practices that may maintain existing inequalities. By exploring the interrelations between positions within the global spaces of the World Social Forum and the World Economic Forum, we offer an original contribution to the field of strategic change. We show how the actors in these global spaces have the potential to provoke greater social justice but also risk perpetuating a status quo that continues to favor the few over the many. Participants are world‐makers who wield symbolic power and can create disruption in the “rules of the game,” but the strength of those who seek to defend the status quo can perpetuate inertia. The article offers a novel contribution to the research on global spaces and elite actors by critically analyzing accounts of strategic practices therein, thus offering a more nuanced understanding of world‐making in action or inaction.

БОЛАШАҚ ПЕДАГОГТАРДЫ КӘСІБИ ДАЯРЛАУДА САПАЛЫҚ ДАҒДЫЛАРЫН ДАМЫТУДЫҢ ПСИХОЛОГИЯЛЫҚ ТИІМДІЛІГІ

The article is based on the system of professional training of future teachers in higher educational institutions of the country. Today, an independent country is a country that determines the possibilities of future development, taking into account modern processes, technologies that provide its own system, model and quality of national education. Kazakhstan as a sovereign state, the signing of the Lisbon Declaration and participation in the Bologna process, etc. reflect its place in the global educational space. This circumstance contributes to the intensive development of the higher education system, taking into account the socio-cultural interests of our state and global educational processes that determine the quality and technological achievements in higher education. It is obvious that one of the urgent problems of pedagogical science and best practices is to identify priority areas for improving the upbringing and education of the free generation that has crossed the threshold of the XXI century. In the system of professional training of future teachers, their qualitative skills should correspond to social processes. Due to the transition of an independent country to a market economy in accordance with the changing requirements of the time, the main criteria of competitiveness oblige future teachers to have modern qualities along with knowledge, knowledge, business skills. In this regard, the article formulates the relevance and positions, features and rationality of the development of qualitative skills in the system of professional training of future teachers based on scientific analysis.

Modified Roller Compaction Model to Account for Roll Speed Effect on Powder Compaction in Dry Granulation Process

This study introduces a modification to the roller compaction model proposed by Sousa et al.1 to account for the effect of roll speed on powder compaction in the dry granulation process. The proposed model enhances the prediction accuracy, particularly at higher roll speeds, which are often overlooked in existing models. The modified model is validated using literature data, demonstrating improved performance compared to the original model. Additionally, the model is applied to a pharmaceutical formulation, showing its applicability in an industrial context. The integration of the model into gPROMS allows for global sensitivity analysis and design space exploration, providing valuable insights for process optimization and scale-up. The study contributes to the understanding of roller compaction dynamics and offers a practical tool for decision-making in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Dynamic spatial‐temporal network for traffic forecasting based on joint latent space representation

AbstractIn the era of data‐driven transportation development, traffic forecasting is crucial. Established studies either ignore the inherent spatial structure of the traffic network or ignore the global spatial correlation and may not capture the spatial relationships adequately. In this work, a Dynamic Spatial‐Temporal Network (DSTN) based on Joint Latent Space Representation (JLSR) is proposed for traffic forecasting. Specifically, in the spatial dimension, a JLSR network is developed by integrating graph convolution and spatial attention operations to model complex spatial dependencies. Since it can adaptively fuse the representation information of local topological space and global dynamic space, a more comprehensive spatial dependency can be captured. In the temporal dimension, a Stacked Bidirectional Unidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (SBUGRU) network is developed, which captures long‐term temporal dependencies through both forward and backward computations and superimposed recurrent layers. On these bases, DSTN is developed in an encoder‐decoder framework and periodicity is flexibly modeled by embedding branches. The performance of DSTN is validated on two types of real‐world traffic flow datasets, and it improves over baselines.

The transformation of India's space policy: From space for development to the pursuit of security and prestige

This article explores the transformation of India's space policy from a focus on space for development to the pursuit of security and prestige. India's early space programme was largely defined by a developmental rationale, aimed at addressing socio-economic challenges through space technology and applications. However, in recent years, India's space policy has undergone a significant change, as the country tries to leverage its space capabilities for strategic objectives, including enhancing its national security, achieving greater status in the global space order, and projecting its great power aspirations. This article offers a comprehensive overview of India's space programme by highlighting the country's high-profile exploration projects, the involvement of the private sector, and the use of space technology as a foreign policy tool and a source of soft power. It also analyses changing perceptions of the country's strategic environment and evolving geopolitical dynamics that have resulted in a reorientation towards the military uses of space. It also assesses the implications of this transformation for India's space programme, its relations with other space actors, and the global governance of outer space.

PROCESS OF UKRAINE'S FINANCIAL SECTOR INSTUTIONALIZATION AND ROLE OF CORPORATE SECURITIES MARKET

This article deals with the characteristics of the institutionalization process of the financial sector in Ukraine and the role of the corporate securities market in it. It is determined that the modern domestic financial sector is characterized by significant institutional imbalances, primarily due to the insufficient effectiveness of state policy in this area. For many years, banks have been the key players in the domestic financial sector, which significantly reduced the level of financial inclusion. The development of non-banking financial institutions has been fragmentary, significantly undermining public trust in the financial sector. In particular, this concerns the activities of credit unions in Ukraine, where the market volumes of private pension provision have been minimal for a long time. Some existing institutional imbalances were overcome through the rapid digitalization of certain segments of the financial market, but the overall level of financial inclusion remains low. The process of institutionalization of the domestic financial market occurred against the background of the weakness of the corporate securities market. The article notes that this situation was a consequence of the lack of interest from joint-stock companies in market methods of capital attraction. Along with this, domestic financial institutions are not interested in investing in corporate securities. Thus, the reluctance of public corporations to place their securities on the market coincides with a peculiar investment strategy of financial institutions. As a result, the volumes of the primary corporate securities market in Ukraine are minimal (especially in the stock market), and government securities dominate the secondary market for a long time. This situation poses a series of threats to Ukraine's economic development and requires appropriate actions from the state aimed at the activation of the corporate securities market. It can now be stated that domestic public corporations are non-competitive in the global financial space, which destructively affects their market positions.

Combining deep learning with physical parameters in POC and PIC inversion from spaceborne lidar CALIOP

POC and PIC are indispensable components in the global ocean carbon cycle, their transport and space distribution being driven by the biological carbon pump and the carbonate pump. However, passive ocean color remote sensing, usually employed for POC and PIC research, experiences serious shortcomings in polar winter conditions due to its reliance on sunlight, leading to scarce data coverage in the polar regions. In contrast, CALIOP has shown considerable promise in high-latitude ocean observing. Past approaches to estimate POC from CALIOP data relied on bbp measurements obtained through the application of algorithms that presume an empirical linear correlation between bbp and the backscatter coefficient measured at 180°. This method does not account for any spatiotemporal variability in the conversion coefficient. Furthermore, the potential of CALIOP to provide estimates of PIC has not been explored yet. Here, we developed an innovative Two-Branch-Two-Step (TBTS) model to estimate POC and PIC from CALIOP data, which effectively expands the spatial coverage of the MODIS products. This method exploits the strength of deep learning while encapsulating the generalizability of physical parameters. This method consists of two branches: (1) a deep learning branch based on lidar attenuated backscatter waveform and (2) a branch focusing on physical parameters, including the total column-integrated depolarization ratio and the subsurface cross-polarized component of column-integrated backscatter. The model’s generalizability and accuracy are confirmed through the evaluation of a test dataset and validation using in-situ measurements. Our model outperforms several other prevalent machine learning models. We also dissected the importance of different parts of the input data using SHAP tools, thereby providing insights into the black-box nature of deep learning models. Using CALIOP products, we put forth the inaugural estimation of interannually resolved PIC and POC standing stocks in polar regions. The implementation of CALIOP in polar regions bridges the gap inherent in passive ocean color measurements. Lidar-derived total global PIC standing stock is estimated to be 8% higher than that from MODIS, while the POC standing stock is boosted by 17.2%. The carbon standing stock in polar regions exhibits significant inter-annual variability and apparent seasonal periodicity. Hence, results from this research effort clearly reveal that the exploitation of the CALIOP-derived POC and PIC measurements, in combination with the application of new approaches and algorithms to future space lidar data, will undeniably enhance our comprehension of the polar ocean carbon cycle. However, it is important to acknowledge that the CALIOP products may inherit biases from the MODIS data used for training. Hence, where MODIS data is available, it’s still the “better” product to use, but where there isn’t MODIS data, the CALIOP product is extremely useful, especially in the polar regions.

Globalization and capital formation in Nigeria

No country can achieve sustained economic growth without substantial investments in capital formation. Nigeria is rich in natural resources but due to inadequate capital and technology, these resources have not been fully tapped and maximized. This study seeks to provide another gate way to unlocking the dearth of capital formation for development by specifically investigating the impact of financial and trade globalization on capital formation in Nigeria within the period 1990–2022. Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique was adopted for data analysis. The findings of this study indicate that while trade globalization has negative effect on capital formation in both the long run and short run respectively, financial globalization exerts negative effect on capital formation in the long run but a positive effect in the short run. Nevertheless, Financial and trade globalization exert detrimental effect on capital formation in the long run. A major policy recommendation is that Nigeria should play a key role in the African Continental Free Trade Area in order to boost her trade and financial competitiveness within Africa and so be able to lunch herself into the global space, and thus tap the potential benefits of trade and financial globalization.

Dimensions of freedom of Ukrainian art in the late 80s and early 90s of the 20th century and their manifestation in artistic associations of that time

The relevance of the research topic lies in the insufficient study of such a period of Ukrainian art as the turn of the 1980s and early 1990s, when banned artists came out of the underground, taking advantage of the weakening of the ideological pressure of the Soviet system, and led powerful artistic movements involved in the formation of dimensions of free creativity. The purpose of the work is to clarify the conditions for the development of Ukrainian art at the turn of the 80s and 90s of the 20th century, and to highlight the importance of creative associations in the process of artists’ realisation of new tasks in the emerging continuum of freedom (on the example of the associations “The Way” and “The Strontium-90”). The methodological apparatus of the study consists of three stages (preparatory, research and synthesising) using the following methods: analysis of literary and scientific sources, dialectical method in the emergence of a new phenomenon, method of logical analysis, method of critical and comparative analysis, synergistic method, generalisation, method of hypothesis and forecasting. The study found that at the end of the 1980s, under the influence of the Chornobyl disaster, Ukrainian “unofficial” art left the status of marginal, and its representatives became the forerunners of a new free creative continuum. The artists of the new generation, using the neo-avant-garde experience of their colleagues and the factor of freedom of expression, strive to use the latest creative practices, which has connected them to the global artistic space. The study argues that neo-mythologism, as one of the main principles of world art of the second half of the 20th century, at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s became decisive in the process of creating a free artistic continuum. This principle led to the most individualised figurative system of expression of Ukrainian artists of the new generation. The paper examines two artistic associations, “The Way” and “Strontium-90”, and their role in shaping the Ukrainian free creative continuum. The practical significance of the study lies in the use of the results in the creation of recommendations and methodological guides on the history of Ukrainian art of the 20th and 21st centuries and gallery business

The Active Form of Security: Technology and the Material-aesthetic Script

How are socially and politically controversial security practices materially-technologically scripted into our lives in ever-deeper ways? This essay proposes that acts of aesthetic design are at the heart of that process and are being deployed by technology corporations to “smooth” the diffusion of security practices, discourses, and politics across global space. To substantiate that claim, we make three moves. First, we propose an understanding of the “script” that returns to the roots of the concept in theater and the arts. That understanding stresses that our material-technological enmeshing is governed strongly by aesthetic and affective factors that operate through forms of resonance (rather that reason). In consequence—we argue—much of the power of technology conglomerates is linked to their capacity to harness these aesthetico-affective resonances. Second, we demonstrate this through a case study focused on the material-aesthetic design activities of Google, teasing out how it deploys aesthetic practices to extend its sociopolitical power. Third, we speculatively conclude by introducing the architect Keller Easterling’s concept of “active form” to show how conceptualizing scripts in aesthetic terms also provides insights into how security practices are diffused across global contexts, irrelevant contextual sociopolitical differences, and seemingly without any limit.

ДО ПИТАННЯ ІНТЕГРАЦІЇ УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ЗАКЛАДІВ ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ В ЄВРОПЕЙСЬКИЙ ОСВІТНІЙ ПРОСТІР

Modern realities cause new challenges to education – on the one hand, the course of integration into the European educational space and the implementation of relevant reforms remains unchanged, on the other hand – the realities of the full-scale invasion of russia on the territory of Ukraine make significant adjustments to the development and transformation of the higher education system of Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to find out the specifics of the implementation of the main principles of the Bologna Process in Ukrainian institutions of higher education in today’s conditions. The authors of the article investigated the main stages of the formation of the European educational space, defined the basic principles of its functioning. An analysis of the implementation of the provisions of the Bologna Process in the educational process was carried out on the example of the activities of Ukrainian institutions of higher education. Conclusions. Modernization of the educational activities of Ukrainian higher education institutions in the context of the European integration of higher education of Ukraine involves, on the one hand, the implementation of the main principles of the Bologna Declaration, on the other hand, taking into account the socio-cultural context of modern Ukrainian sosiety. Constant updating of knowledge, technologies, teaching tools, organizational and management approaches is an integral component of the qualitative modernization of the education system and its development as the basis of self-reproduction and self-organization of society. A key role in Ukraine’s entry into the global space is played by institutions of higher education capable of adequately responding to the challenges of the times and establishing themselves as national scientific and educational centers of the European and world level. Key words: Bologna process, European educational space, globalization, integration, modernization, Penitentiary Academy of Ukraine, Chernihiv Polytechnic National University.

Material Research for Hypersonic Travel

The goal of travelling faster than five times the speed ofsound, or hypersonic travel, has enormous potential to transform global transportation, defence capabilities, and space access. However, materials and structures face severe obstacles because to harsh aerothermal conditions inherent in high Mach number trajectories. This work focuses on new approaches to do research for ceramics, composites, and refractory alloys that are essential for building hypersonic vehicles. Essential design concepts for primary structures, heat shielding, and propulsion systems are covered, highlighting the critical role that theory and computation play in comprehending the links between structure, property, and processing. The remarkable high-temperature capabilities, stiffness, strength, and corrosion resistance of ceramic materials are highlighted in the study as reasons for theirincreasing importance in aircraft applications. Based on their distinct features, titanium alloys, nickel aluminides, metal- matrix composites, carbon-carbon, and ceramic-matrix composites stand out as top choices for a high temperature. In pursuit of lightweight, high- performance materials for hypersonic travel, this paper summarises ongoing researchefforts, evaluates the state of the art, offers insights into technological hurdles, and identifies areas that require future improvement. To explore the complex field of hypersonicmaterials design and selection in this research, this paper hope to shed light on the critical role that materials science plays in pushing the boundaries of aerospace technology by investigating the special difficulties presented by hypersonic flight as well as the characteristics and potential of various material classes.

A Spatial History of Seaports in South Asia

Seaports provide material foundations for globalization. In the long history of global mobile connectivity that now forms globalization, the Indian Ocean is the world's oldest arena of expansive long-distance sea travel. People have sailed monsoon winds among coastal environments connecting Europe, Africa, India, and China since prehistoric times. Indian Ocean ports grew in number, size, wealth, and permanence over the centuries and anchored the rise of seaborne empires connecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Modernity traveled among industrial port cities along with lower unit costs for shipping and a dramatically increasing scale of shipping in volume, value, distance, and speed. Capital investments in seaport infrastructure grew with the scale of mobility through ports connecting producers and consumers by land and sea in commodity chains that eventually embraced people around the world with increasingly intricate, expansive interdependence, and also with ever more entrenched spatial inequity. The result is the current global seaport space of interwoven connectivity strung along the coastlines of globalization on all the continents.

Analysis of determinants of the influence of the external economic sphere on economic security of the state

The object of research is a list of the main factors of influence of the foreign economic sphere on the level of economic security. The effective development of the national economy largely depends on the state and level of economic security of the country in the conditions of strengthening globalization and integration processes. An adequate level of economic security is the basis for the development of socio-economic systems of any level, stability in society in general. Therefore, assessment and analysis of factors affecting economic security at different levels (countries, businesses, enterprises and organizations) is an important direction of the analytical work of specialists. For its implementation, analysts need a methodology – to determine the goal and interests, the main influencing factors and principles, to choose methodological and analytical tools. In the scientific works of economists, the methodology, level, and indicators are given as separate aspects of the formation and management of the economic security of the state. Without denying the significant contribution of these developments, the conducted research sets out the systematization of factors influencing the state of the macroeconomic environment. The study of factors influencing the macroeconomic sphere on the level of economic security of the country is based on the use of indicators calculated from available statistical data. The last twenty years, which showed an increase in world GDP almost twofold (from 51.39 trillion USD in 2000 to 101.12 trillion USD in 2020), are characterized by the loss of opportunities for the Ukrainian economy to be present on the world stage a market where competition is intensifying and carried out at a new technological level. The work defines the national economic interests of Ukraine in the global socio-economic space, the directions of the realization of the national interests of Ukraine, the dynamics of indicators of the development of the macroeconomic sphere. This made it possible to form a list of the main influential factors of the macroeconomic sphere, which directly shape the level of economic security of the state. The results of the research can be useful for the formation or adaptation of development strategies of countries with similar conditions and economies, such as Georgia, Moldova, which also have conflicts with Russia and seek to join the European Union.

Measuring sustainability consciousness in Italy

Sustainability can be conceived as an ideal state in which society, environment and economy can thrive without harming each other in the present, future and global space. In this paper, we validate the Italian version of the sustainability consciousness questionnaire developed by a Swedish research group. The psychometric construct aims to measure individual sustainability consciousness through a combination of knowingness, attitudes and behaviour. The validation process is based on the hierarchical confirmatory factor analysis model and includes both the long and short forms of the questionnaire proposed in the original study. Specifically, we propose two alternative approaches to validate the short form, one based on the same subset of items as the original proposal and another based on a data-driven strategy that resulted in a different subset of items. Once validated on a national level, the sustainability consciousness questionnaire becomes a valuable tool for researchers and policymakers to assess the sustainability consciousness levels within a national or local population regarding this crucial issue, enabling the design of more precisely targeted policies.

Theories, determinants, and intervention models and approaches on inequalities of undernutrition amongst under fives: A literature review.

One of the greatest public health problems of the 21st century is undernutrition in children under the age of 5 years (CAUFY). Globally, over 232 million CUAFY are undernourished and approximately 45% of mortality in this population are undernutrition-induced. This paper reviewed and critically explained the factors perpetuating undernutrition in CUAFY in the global space. It further explained the multi-level determinants that influence health inequalities and consequently exacerbate undernutrition amongst CUAFY globally. It also went further to explain the intervention models and approaches that can be used to tackle undernutrition in CUAFY. Demiris et al.'s approach to narrative review was utilized for this paper. Relevant articles on child nutrition were retrieved from multiple credible databases and websites of foremost health organizations. Using an iterative process, multiple combinations of search terms were done by stringing relevant key terms and their synonyms with Boolean Operators. This process was constantly refined to align search results with the study aim. Database search produced relevant and resourceful publications which were utilized to develop this review. The global burden of undernutrition remains high, especially in Oceania with the highest prevalence of stunting and wasting (41.4% and 12.5%), with Africa and Asia following closely. Malnutrition eradication is a global health issue of high priority as demonstrated by the "Goal 2" of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the United Nations (UN) Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025. The review identified no significant positive outcome from previous interventions due to the endemic health inequalities. Determinants of the multi-level health inequalities associated with undernutrition in CUAFY, and probable solutions are explained with theoretical models of health inequalities. A diagonal intervention approach was proposed as a viable solution to ending undernutrition in CUAFY. The application of relevant theoretical models and context-specific intervention approaches can be utilized by stakeholders to close the existing inequality gaps, thereby reducing undernutrition amongst CUAFY globally.

Association of objective sleep duration with cognition and brain aging biomarkers in older adults.

The neuropathological mechanisms underlying the association between sleep duration and mild cognitive impairment remain poorly understood. This population-based study included 2032 dementia-free people (age ≥ 60 years; 55.1% women) derived from participants in the Multimodal Interventions to Delay Dementia and Disability in Rural China; of these, data were available in 841 participants for Alzheimer's plasma biomarkers (e.g. amyloid-β, total tau and neurofilament light chain), 1044 for serum microvascular biomarkers (e.g. soluble adhesion molecules) and 834 for brain MRI biomarkers (e.g. whiter matter, grey matter, hippocampus, lacunes, enlarged perivascular spaces and white matter hyperintensity WMH). We used electrocardiogram-based cardiopulmonary coupling analysis to measure sleep duration, a neuropsychological test battery to assess cognitive function and the Petersen's criteria to define mild cognitive impairment. Data were analysed with multivariable logistic and general linear models. In the total sample (n = 2032), 510 participants were defined with mild cognitive impairment, including 438 with amnestic mild cognitive impairment and 72 with non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Long sleep duration (>8 versus 6-8 h) was significantly associated with increased likelihoods of mild cognitive impairment and non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment and lower scores in global cognition, verbal fluency, attention and executive function (Bonferroni-corrected P < 0.05). In the subsamples, long sleep duration was associated with higher plasma amyloid-β40 and total tau, a lower amyloid-β42/amyloid-β40 ratio and smaller grey matter volume (Bonferroni-corrected P < 0.05). Sleep duration was not significantly associated with serum-soluble adhesion molecules, white matter hyperintensity volume, global enlarged perivascular spaces and lacunes (P > 0.05). Alzheimer's and neurodegenerative pathologies may represent common pathways linking long sleep duration with mild cognitive impairment and low cognition in older adults.

Migration of confined micro-swimmers subject to anisotropic diffusion

Shear-induced migration of elongated micro-swimmers exhibiting anisotropic Brownian diffusion at a population scale is investigated analytically in this work. We analyse the steady motion of confined ellipsoidal micro-swimmers subject to coupled diffusion in a general setting within a continuum homogenisation framework, as an extension of existing studies on macro-transport processes, by allowing for the direct coupling of convection and diffusion in local and global spaces. The analytical solutions are validated successfully by comparison with numerical results from Monte Carlo simulations. Subsequently, we demonstrate from the probability perspective that symmetric actuation does not yield net vertical polarisation in a horizontal flow, unless non-spherical shapes, external fields or direct coupling effects are harnessed to generate steady locomotion. Coupled diffusivities modify remarkably the drift velocity and vertical migration of motile micro-swimmers exposed to fluid shear. The interplay between stochastic swimming and preferential alignment could explain the diverse concentration and orientation distributions, including rheological formations of depletion layers, centreline focusing and surface accumulation. Results of the analytical study shed light on unravelling peculiar self-propulsion strategies and dispersion dynamics in active-matter systems, with implications for various transport problems arising from the fluctuating shape, size and other external or inter-particle interactions of swimmers in confined environments.

A decolonial analysis of religious medicalisation of same-sex practices in South African Pentecostalism

Same-sex practices are commonly medicalised in various global spaces. Some societies view same-sex practices as some form of disease that needs to be cured. In Africa, the influence of Christianity has prompted many communities to conclude that there are spiritual forces behind same-sex orientations and practices. Therefore, same-sex practices are demonised, and those identifying with these sexualities and gender identities are viewed as sick, or as having some form of mental illness. As a fast-growing and influential movement in South Africa, Christianity plays a critical role in this narrative. Against this backdrop, this article examined how some Pentecostal pastors in South Africa use God-talk to propel the narrative that medicalises same-sex practices and how these pastors claim to have miraculous powers to heal these practices. Consequently, the gender and sexuality commonly accepted within African religiosity and spirituality are pushed to the peripheries. Therefore, it is argued in this article that the colonial-missionary discourses regarding African sexualities and genders are at play within the religious medicalisation of same-sex narratives. Thus, there is a need to problematise and transform this narrative. This act can contribute to delinking African genders and sexualities from Western repressions and subjugation agendas. The discussion moved from the premise of decoloniality while adopting a multidisciplinary approach that incorporated theology, gender and sexuality studies, psychology, health, and socio-political sciences. Again, the article used secondary literature analysis to examine this phenomenon and to gain a thorough understanding of how African Pentecostalism continues to use God-talk to medicalise same-sex practices in contemporary South Africa and the repercussions thereof.Contribution: The study contributed to the existing knowledge that addresses religious challenges faced by people identifying with non-normative sexualities and genders in Africa. This can contribute to the transformation of religious medicalisation of same-sex practices in South Africa, and elsewhere.