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This research project returns to and reconsiders the many representations of prison experience by political prisoners under apartheid, comparing them to new memoirs published since 2000. These include...
This project departs from the emergence of cinema in early 20th century South Africa, and its role in constituting a new public sphere around this form of leisure. My project traces cinema’s mass popularity...
West African Pidgin (“Pidgin”) is a group of related, mutually intelligible varieties that emerged from contact between English and African languages in coastal West Africa. Spoken by only a few thousand...
Northwest Africa has recently been the site of a large variety of political movements. Commentators have struggled to make sense of them, partly because they have taken for granted a sharp division between...
Current research explores land, home, and community in South Africa through a sociological lens. It examines how land is understood not merely as a commodity but as an integral element of collective and...
This monograph project intervenes in the timely debate around the ‘decolonisation’ of trauma theory by providing a revised understanding of the theory’s Euro-American foundations primarily dominated...
Insects are by far the most successful and diverse group of animals on the planet. They include over 1 million described species, and taxonomists estimate that there are between 2 and 30 million species...
The project identifies three main epochs that demonstrate Zambia’s shifting perceptions of China the state, Chinese individuals and Zambia-China relations – from an era of intersecting solidarity...