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2019
African Composition Techniques
My project is to write a Composition Treatise which draws largely on my six-volume set of nearly 100 piano pieces, Afrikosmos.
After the Eruption: Reflections on Higher Education in South Africa
At this critical historical conjuncture in South Africa, at the very precipice of tumultuous social change, multiple forces converge onto the stage of higher education in South Africa.
Complexity beyond the real; the integration of the unknown and the unknowable into science
Complexity theory (Boulton et al, 2015) provides an important and potent challenge to the continuing dominance of worldviews informed by classical science.
Considering Zimbabwe’s 2017 Coup: Causes, Consequences, Concepts
A faction of Zimbabwe’s ruling party and many soldiers removed the country’s 93 year-old president from power over party and polity during a few weeks of November 2017.
Everyday Authoritarianism: Urban Life and Politics in Luanda, Angola
This project poses the question of how authoritarian politics systems institutionalise themselves through everyday life.
Is the European Union a Role Model for Africa? - Lessons from 60 Years of European Integration for Africa
The project deals with the lessons of European integration for African attempts to regionally integrate further.
Making a Difference: How Anthropology Constructed South Africa’s colony, Namibia.
Colonialism was not only racist and exploitative, it was also ridiculous.
Militarized Global Apartheid
This book explores how new regimes of labor and mobility control are taking shape across the global north in a militarized form that mimics South Africas history of apartheid.
Neo-Abolitionism: The Case Against the Employer-Employee System
The controversial institution in the economic system throughout most of the world is not the market or private property but the employer-employee relationship.
Re-Urbanism in Africa: Building Master-planned, Holistically-designed Satellite Cities
Large-scale property developers have recently embarked on a far-reaching strategy designed to reshape the existing spatial configuration of many cities in Africa.
Religious Pluralism, Hybrid Identities, and the Postcolonial Religious Other
The focus of this research is religious pluralism and hybrid identities, particularly the construction of religious identities resulting from the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.
South Africa and the emergence of international human rights
South Africa has played a leading role in the development of international human rights in very different and sometime diametrically opposing capacities.
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.
2018
‘Maids’ and ‘Madams’ in Caribbean and South African Women’s Texts: Approximations of Feminist Solidarity?
This project engages with the possibility for solidarity between women across differences of race, class and sexuality as it is represented in a range of artistic forms (poetry, fiction and visual images) created by women from the Anglophone Caribbean and South Africa.
“ELECTIONS, DEMOCRACY AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN AFRICA”
The Stellenbosch Annual Seminars on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) programme, African constitutionalism: comparative perspectives, falls under the STIAS project theme The future of democracy which started in September 2013.
10 year follow-up study of cardiac and liver iron using T2*MRI in a single cohort of thalassaemia major patients.
Patients with thalassemia major require regular blood transfusions from 6-12 months of age to stay alive.
A Study of the Interplay of Taboo Subjects and Censorship in Determining the Limits of Humour/Insult in the Four Regions of Africa (North, South, West and East) and their Standup Jokes
Ancient humour arts exemplify how satire creates a sense of community from shared laughter.
A transdisciplinary analysis of the role of social identity on performance under social stratification and stigmatisation
The emergent fields of stratification economics and identity economics offer new theoretical insights for explaining economic inequality, specifically the unique role that intersectionality (the existence of multiple social identities) might play.
Adaptation of mosquito vectors to insecticides used in the Southwest area of the Indian Ocean: implications for vector control
Mortality caused by mosquito vectors is still higher in African countries than elsewhere.
Contribution of Human Enteric Adenoviruses to Acute Gastroenteritis in the Post-Rotavirus Vaccine Introduction Era in Ghanaian Children
Viruses are the most common causes of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) globally, and rotaviruses have been implicated as the leading cause of AGE in children below the age of five.
Crime and Citizenship
Witnessing the large-scale displacement and conditions of statelessness in the wake of the Second World War, political theorist Hannah Arendt coined the evocative phrase the right to have rights, arguing that the fundamental right, from which all other rights sprung, was the right to membership of a political community.
Cryptography in the Quantum Age
Even though we have some basic understanding of the power of quantum computation, and its impact on cryptography and cryptanalysis, there are many open problems, some of them purely technical and some more fundamental.
DECOLONIALITY AFTER DECOLONIZATION: The question of knowledge and higher education in Southern Africa and the Global South
The Knowledge Society is a common expression nowadays in the Global North and the Global West, were knowledge means technological knowledge and training geared towards economic growth, development and modernization.
Deep learning network for South African birdsong and its wider implications on the concept of intelligence
We develop an operational convolutional neural network, that distinguishes 170 different South African birdsongs.
Fugitive Whispers
I am in the early stages of this project but my expectation is that it will become a novel.
Future of water quality: Taking stock of emerging contaminants in water sources in East and Southern Africa
Over 45 % of people in Africa do not have access to clean drinking water.
Good policy; bad policy
This project proposes to examine three key policies, one in each ministry, in the form of a memoir on how decisions were taken and implemented.
Inheritance Systems and the Extended Synthesis; Picturing the Mind
I will be completing a book in the Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology series, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2019; this is co-authored by Marion Lamb.
Institutional constraints on cabinet formation, coalition governance and cabinet termination
This project examines the dynamic relationships between the key actors of representative democracy in EU member states: voters, political parties, parliaments and governments.
Is It Autonomy All the Way Down? The Search for a QBist Metaphysic
The philosopher William James once wrote, Like the old woman who described the world as resting on a rock, and then explained that rock to be supported by another rock, and finally said it was ‘rocks all the way down,’ he who believes this to be a radically moral universe must hold the moral order to rest either on an absolute and ultimate should or on a series of shoulds ‘all the way down’.
Is it rape in the eyes of Uganda’s men or Community Perceptions on rape?
The project will involve analysis and interpretation of data collected in research aimed at interrogating societal definitions of rape.
Justice from above? The role of international criminal tribunals in transition countries
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) are about to close their doors and have already considerably scaled down their activities.
Legal protection of hunter-gatherer groups’ land rights in Central and Southern Africa
Africa is home to the remaining hunter-gathers, meaning traditional communities that make a living predominantly through collecting wild fruits and hunting wild animals.
National Identities and State Formation
National identity is the set of inter-related cultural attributes that provides meaning and self-recognition to a collective of humans who define themselves as a national community.
People’s perceptions on sustainable intensification of genetically modified crops for food security and climate mitigation in Kenya
Worldwide, genetically modified (GM) crops are perceived as necessary for sustainable agriculture to enhance food security and mitigate climate change.
Planning the new, better city –Fear and safety in policy and practice
Kiruna, the northernmost city in Sweden, is constructed around a classic industrial source of production – the prosperous mine.
Predictive Computational Modelling of Intramyocardial Biomaterial Therapies towards Personalised Care for Myocardial Infarction
Myocardial infarction is one of the major causes of death globally.
Rethinking South African Literature(s)
This is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project, located in the Faculty of Arts at UWC, which seeks to rethink the ways in which we conceptualise and understand the field of South African literatures, almost three decades after the legislated ending of apartheid, and just over two decades after Michael Chapman’s landmark study, Southern African Literatures (1996), arguably the first (and last) study to engage thoroughly with literatures in all languages in the region.
Retooling Development Pathways for Sustainability transition in Africa
We are continuously witnessing a confluence of socio-economic and social-ecological crisis manifested in the form of growing environmental degradation, persistent economic stagnation, increasing unemployement and growing disparities between and within countries.
Review of the occurrence, isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis, pharmacological activities and analytical methods of homoisoflavonoids
Flavonoids are an important class of natural products that occur in plants, and microorganisms.
The Law of Commissions: A Comparative Study of the Place of Commissions in Law and Governance.
The purpose of this work is to explore the role of Commissions; interrogate existing Commission discourses; examine the power of Commissions and their place in law and governance; investigate the global developments of their legal and socio-political dimensions; a process that involves a holistic approach that probes and unpacks Commissions in their complexity.
The new middle class in Africa in comparative perspective
Comparative perspectives from the global south can tell us much about the meteoric rise of the new middle class in Africa.
The Responsive University
There is a fairly substantial literature on the manner and extent to which universities engage with society.
The Responsive University
This project falls under the STIAS longer term theme project University and Society, sub-theme: Understanding the Contemporary University(From the concept note): Universities worldwide are relentlessly focused on attaining ‘excellence’.
The Wind Scatters
This envisaged collection will comprise of short stories set in different periods over a century, beginning from the 1920s to the 2020s.
The Zulus of New York/The Madonna of Excelsior Script
In 1880 William Leonard Hunt, known as The Great Farini after his trapeze act with a troupe called The Flying Farinis, a well-known Canadian funambulist and impresario, imported a group of Zulus to England and later to the United States to perform as part of the human curiosities or freak shows in his popular circus.
Transformative infrastructure for sustainable development in Africa
The infrastructure deficit in Africa is estimated to be $130-170 billion per year according to newly revised figures from the African Development Bank.
Transformative Infrastructure for Wellbeing Economy Development in Africa
The need for transformational change in national development efforts received unprecedented global consensus and support in 2015 resulting in the adoption of Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.