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2021
Desire, Agency, and Gender in Ancient Near Eastern Love Poetry
The Song of Songs, a collection of ancient erotic poetry known to the modern reader as a part of the Jewish and Christian Bible, belongs to the ancient Near Eastern tradition of love poetry together with the poems written in Sumerian, Akkadian, and Egyptian.
Documentary, Desire, Description: South Africa’s ‘Second World War’ and the mediation/materialisation of ‘witness’
This project centres on South Africa’s first illustrated magazine Libertas (1940 -1946) a vehicle of anti-Fascist advocacy and propaganda for pro-Allied engagement in WW2.
Epistemic Virtues of African Proverbs: Implications for Decolonizing Knowledge in Africa
This project examines Akan and Yoruba epistemic virtue proverbs and theorises how they can be harnessed to transform knowledge and achieve epistemic decolonisation in Africa.
Establishing Optimal Approaches for the Fabrication of Artificial Tongues for Smart Detection and Removal of Toxic Metals in Water
The health risks associated with the presence of toxic metals in water require the use of highly selective and sensitive techniques for accurately monitoring their presence and removing them to ensure public health safety.
Ethiopia’s Challenge: Multiple Identities vs. Mono-Identity
Identity conflicts abound globally.
Ethnicity and Constitutionalism in Africa
The focus of the study for this year, under the broad theme of constitution-building in Africa will be the issue of separation of powers.
Everyday Authoritarianism: Urban Life and Politics in Luanda, Angola
This project poses the question of how authoritarian politics systems institutionalise themselves through everyday life.
Falsified Medicine
The project focuses on falsified medicines - a growing health problem affecting both developed and developing countries.
Fight against antimicrobial resistance in poultry farms in Benin by bacteriophages: a study based on the One Health approach
In Benin, the preliminary studies showed that the leafy vegetables produced in southern Benin were contaminated with C.
Gandhi’s Satyagraha: Exploring Non-Violent Alternatives for Effective Political Resistance and Transformation
Challenges confronting our contemporary world like terrorism, populism, and religious pluralism recommend revisiting Gandhi’s concept of satyagraha.
Genealogies of music accompanied narratives in South Africa: Choral tradition, music theatre and opera
The multivalent opportunities provided by the post-apartheid policy-led transforming cultural scene saw an intensification of cultural activities mushrooming throughout the country.
Government agricultural finance interventions as instruments for social protection: a comparative review of developing economies
Strategies promoting social protection for agricultural growth have been remarkably successful in some countries (mainly Asian countries) but not in others (mainly African countries).
Health-economic modelling of strategies to manage gynaecologic cancer in developed countries and low resource settings
Cervical cancer is globally the third most common cancer in women, and in South Africa it is more common than breast cancer.
Is it well with my soul? Effects of contemporary African religious practices on well-being
Promotion of well-being and healthy lives is the third goal of the United Nations Organization Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) (United Nations Organization, 2015) and as such well-being has become a major concern among national leaders and policymakers.
Local media: Western media in a context of orality in Africa
This book project in four parts intends to study how people, coming from a centuries-old orality, act in a context of copyright introduced by colonial and postcolonial authority.
Metaphors of identity, recognition and connection in the 20th century - cell biology and literature
Every knowledge-based discipline proceeds trough history by coining new terms.
Migration Vulnerability and Access to Social Protection
The project concerns the availability, adequacy and access to social protection of three selected vulnerable migrant categories, i.
Mitigating antimicrobial resistance: Implications for ecological and public health
Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem which affects both developing and developed nations.
Orthogonal polynomials and data sciences
Orthogonal polynomials appear in many areas of applied mathematics and in particular in numerical analysis.
Pacing within sonic spaces: a psychology of music and work
Throughout history, the power of music to enhance productivity at work has been exploited.
Patent Offices – The Problem of Profits: What striving for PTO profits can do to a patent system
This project aims to address the economic mechanisms governing or heavily influencing all significant patent offices (PTOs) worldwide.
Potential severity of antimicrobial resistance in context of COVID-19 pandemic and phage-assisted bio-control: one health approach in Benin and Pakistan
Several studies reported that bacterial co-infections have been considered an important contributor to morbidity and mortality of COVID-19.
Pragmatic Marker Borrowing in African Englishes: A Corpus-Based Study
There is extensive study of pragmatic marker borrowing from Asian languages by speakers of Asian Englishes, without a full exploration of pragmatic markers borrowed from African languages into African Englishes.
Queues of Limitless Hope: The Novel and Social Crisis in the African Republic of Letters
Queues of Limitless Hope asks: what happens to the novel form under the conditions of protracted socio-political crisis?
Representing Discontent: South Africa in words and on screen
This project focuses on the affective shaping of identity in South African texts of the 21st century.
Review on the use of BTK inhibitors
The beauty of BTK inhibitors is that they impair tumor development by blocking normal, unmutated BTK, causing many lymphoid tumors to be sensitive, as we have reviewed.
Sleeping beauties: Dormant innovations in nature and culture
Innovations in biological evolution and in human culture – from science to the arts – arise by processes with multiple parallels.
Spotlighting social inclusion: protection of Africa’s hunter gatherers’ communal land rights in the context of sustainable development goals (SDGs) implementation
Recently, there has been a renewed interest in discussions pertaining to ‘social inclusion’, largely resulting from adoption by the United Nations, of the UN 2030 Agenda encompassing the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and a commitment by States to ‘leave no one behind’ during SDGs implantation.
Study of multiple scales epidemiological models using Tikhonov-Vasilieva and geometric singular perturbation theory
The presented project aims at a systematic study of multiple scale models in epidemiology.
The construction of the Shona subject as historical, contemporary, personal and social in Zimbabwe: the impact of the social fabric in the construction of the individual
The trilogy is a young adult dystopian speculative fiction designed to sensitize African and global adults, to the need to engage politically and personally in order to take their destiny into their own hands.
The Dialectics of Emancipation and Africa: political theory and political practice
Beginning from the understanding that it is imperative today to develop new concepts for the thinking of an emancipatory politics on the African continent (Fanon), this book develops and expands into new empirical domains the arguments first enunciated in my treatise on political theory Thinking Freedom in Africa: toward a theory of emancipatory politics which was awarded the Frantz Fanon Prize in 2017.
The Evolutionary Commons
Humanity is facing an existential crisis from global climate change.
The First Generation of Independent African Leaders and the Making of the African Nation-State
This research project examines the first generation of independent African leaders and how they went about constructing new African nation-states: forging a sense of nationhood out of disparate African ethnic groups brought together within artificial colonial boundaries through colonial rule; imagining the new nation through culture, religion, and the arts; choosing or defining a development model in a world divided into opposing camps of East and West by the Cold War; and the excitement of new sub-disciplines like development economics and its promise to transform former tropical colonies.
The Legacies of the International Criminal Court Intervention in Kenya
The International Criminal Court (ICC) intervened in Kenya after the disputed 2007/8 election that led to displacement of more than 650,000 people and death of 1133 lives according to the post-election violence commission report (GOK 2008).
The manipulability theories of causality in the space of the multiple mental representations of time flow: how stable is causal relationship?
Human mind continuously produces explanations because an explained world is perceived as more understandable, more secure, open for forecasting and for planning of successful actions.
The Responsive University
There is a fairly substantial literature on the manner and extent to which universities engage with society.
The temporalities of the Informality. The case of Benin-Nigeria Cross-border Fuel Smuggling
This research intends to analyze informality as a dimension of the social contract initiated by marginalized actors in response to the crisis of welfare state in Global South.
Towards epistemic justice: Language, identity, and relations of knowing in postcolonial schools
This project is concerned with the role of language in epistemic justice, defined as an ethical project of reversing epistemic exclusions, mitigating epistemic harm, and seeking parity of epistemic authority for historically marginalized speakers and knowers.
Uneven Extinction: anxieties over life and death in times of crisis conservation
The current ‘sixth extinction’ event represents a major crisis for conservation as well as for global society more generally.
Viniculture in Ethiopia
The most important wine country in Africa is South Africa where grapes and wine were introduced by the white settlers in the 17th century.
2020
Assessing marine mammal health to monitor impacts of ‘Operation Phakisa’- the South African Ocean Health Network (OHN)
Marine mammals are good indicators of ocean health, reflecting the state of the marine ecosystem.
Beyond Networks: an Organismic Systems Biology for the 21st Century
Biology is the science of life.
Beyond the Secular: Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex
Combining insights from political theology, postcolonial and critical race theories, this project interrogates the contemporary relation between religion and politics through an exploration of Jacques Derrida’s political thought.
Black Archives and Intellectual Histories
Black Archives and Intellectual Histories brings together a range of scholars from South Africa, the continent at large and the black diaspora whose work has transformed our thinking about black intellectual histories and archives.
Cancer treatment by manipulation of mitochondria
Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, and to reduce this societal and economic burden new treatment options will be needed.
Cartographies of Hospitality The Gendered, Racialised, and Classed Politics of Hosting
Hospitality has become an increasingly important theme in the contemporary discourse of migration.
Citizenship, International Justice, and the View from the South
The project is based primarily on a book manuscript under contract with Routledge Press: Citizenship in a Globalized World.
Consumerism and its dissidents: a social history of white South Africa, c 1950s -1970s
In general South African historiography has been marked by constant emphasis on apartheid, black resistance and formal Afrikaner politics has.