Projects

The global prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is increasing, with sub-Saharan Africa having the highest projected increase. Notably, the way T2D develops differs by ethnicity, but risk stratification...

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) is an aggressive type of blood cancer that requires life-long therapy. However, in most Low and Middle Income Countries, including the majority of Africa, long-lasting treatment...

X-ray imaging is a workhorse in the clinic due to its speed, low cost and relative simplicity. However, the absorption contrast mechanism conventionally used has essentially remained the same since the...

The spread of most diseases is strongly affected by the migrations of populations due to wars, natural disasters or prevailing economic circumstances. These migrations also impact the economies of the...

With this project I aim to outline the unwritten history of civil aviation in East Africa. I use this history as a lens to take a fresh look at some classic questions as follows: how did the human fascination...

This project thinks through the space of the lift as urban affective infrastructure in Johannesburg over the 20th century. Using archival research, newspaper accounts, literary representations, films and...

Sign languages, the visual-gestural languages of Deaf communities, lack a written form. Therefore, until recently, it was not possible to “capture” these languages. The advent of digitised video recordings,...

This book project follows the symbiotic atmospheric pathways that connect plant and human breath to develop forms of cultural theorizing accountable to an increasingly climate-deranged world. By expanding...

Any serious study of the Indic ideas of freedom must begin with acknowledging the centrality accorded to order in a polity. This preoccupation is underlined by the supremacy of the `kingly duty-punishment’...

Judge Radhabinod Pal is a forgotten man in international law. Pal is best known as the author of an impassioned dissenting judgment in the Tokyo trials after World War II, finding each of the Japanese...

Dogon Muslims and “pagan” saints are key figures emblematic of the dramatic social transformations Mali has witnessed since the mid-20th century. They are also often alleged to be oxymorons, that is,...

Over 1.3 million women are each year diagnosed with one of three major gynecologic cancers, ovarian  cancer, endometrial cancer or cervical cancer. The burden of these cancers is increasing worldwide, ...