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2019
'How Disposed Of': Liberated Africans and the Waiting Space of Freedom 1807-1930
This project is the fruition of twenty-seven years of research on the significance of the Liberated Africans, those rescued from the holds of slave ships and dhows in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, the Mediterranean and in the Caribbean between 1808 and 1888, with an aftermath that continued into the 1930s.
A Place to Call Home: A comparative study of the urban housing boom in Luanda and Nairobi
Despite their very different political and economic contexts, both Luanda and Nairobi have experienced housing booms and urban property bubbles over the last fifteen years.
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.
African International Courts
In the course of the last decades, several international courts have been established, either within the African Union [AU], or within the Regional Economic Communities [RECs], and even within some smaller sub- regional organizations.
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.
Black Swans in Public Administration: Rare Organizational Failure with Severe Consequences
The subject of the project is organizational failure in public administration with severe consequences for the physical integrity of humans.
Bodies and/as Texts: Representing queer on screen in contemporary Africa
The body is an assemblage of not only the physical and the material.
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.
Digital Capitalism
This project is about digital capitalism, and more specifically, the emergence of a new gig economy associated with the rise of new platform business models such as Uber, Upwork, TaskRabbit, Helpling, and others.
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.
Luanda is not Paris: a situated epistemology of Southern Urbanism Theory
This project for a book titled In the skin of the city: Luanda, or the dialectics of spatial transformation examines the process of historic formation and transformation of Luanda, the capital city of Angola.
Making a Difference: How Anthropology Constructed South Africa’s colony, Namibia.
Colonialism was not only racist and exploitative, it was also ridiculous.
Memorializing Struggle: Dynamics of Memory, Space and Power in Post-Liberation Africa
In post-liberation societies, memorialization and commemoration can occur at a grand, national scale, often being linked to heroic freedom fighters or critical revolutionary turning points.
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.
My Voice in Contemporary Art Music
I experience contemporary art music as a marriage of two musical cultures, Kiganda of the Baganda in Uganda and the western art music, which have shaped my musical performance and creativity for the last 40 years.
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.
Planetary Prejudices: Race, Migration, and Technology in the New Global Order
Taking racism as the engine of capitalism, the study of racial capitalism offers a potent framework for understanding how racism structures modern life.
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.
Short Stories of the World: Africa
This intended collection will include around 20 African short stories which will be translated into Icelandic.
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.
Southern imaginaries, or, thinking from the South
At a time when the focus of economic development is often the so-called Global South, yet when countries of the north continue to grow in geopolitical dominance, this interdisciplinary project offers a series of cultural, historical, and literary reflections on southness.
The Negatives: A Novel
The Negatives is a conceptual novel about a photographer adrift in contemporary America who is forced to confront the ethics of her practice in a moment at which the very medium of her art has reached a state of volatility, mutability, and impermanence.
The Politics of Education Reform in Middle-Income Countries
A growing scholarly consensus views high quality education as essential for sustained and equitable development.
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.
Theological ethics in the intersection of moral psychology and sociology
There is a long-standing debate in theological ethics (as well as in moral philosophy) between, on the one hand, theories that thinks of ethics as a form of decision theory that can overcome the contingency and arbitrariness of the human body (emotions and intuitions) and the socio-historical context, and, on the other hand, understandings of ethics that sees ethics as an embodied practice embedded in traditions, narratives, social practices, institutions, and concerned with moral formation.
Translation of the Amharic Novel, Tobiya (1907) into English
African-language literatures have long and deep histories in their societies but take place within fenced literary spaces and typically are unavailable to world literature audiences.
Untermenschen: Nietzsche on slavery – and what it means to be human
Does modern capitalism produce new forms of slavery?
Women’s Associations in a Pastoralist Society in Transformation: Implications for Gender-Based Livelihood Improvement Policies in Benin
How does the organization of women transform gender relations and living standards of Fulani women in pastoralist communities of northern Benin?
2018
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.