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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...