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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.
A Gene Revolution for Africa? Genetically Modified Crops and the Future of African Agriculture
Africa has emerged as the ‘final frontier’ in the global debate over the potential for Genetically Modified (GM) crops to alleviate poverty and hunger for smallholder farmers.
A history of Soweto’s Morris Isaacson High School
This project involves writing a history of one of Soweto’s most historically important secondary schools, Morris Isaacson High School.
Access of Individuals to the African International Justice
At the continental level, various legal instruments adopted within the framework of the African Union ((AU) guarantee a certain number of human and peoples’ rights.
Acknowledgment, Denial and Collective Memories of Mass Atrocities: Comparative Perspectives
Recent decades have witnessed systematic efforts to build institutions in response to mass atrocities, a justice cascade, and an unprecedented wave of apologies by heads of state.
APOCALYPSE 2016-2019: Decline of Jacob Zuma, Rise of South Africa?
The three years 2016 to 2019 will change South Africa more significantly than any other time since the dawn of democracy in 1994.
Archaeology of a Hungry Mind
Why and how did we (Homo sapiens) evolve into a species that is dependent on its ‘brains’ rather than its ‘brawn’ for our survival and successful spread across the globe?
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.
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.
Democratic Governance, Corruption, and Corruption Control Mechanisms in Africa: A Comparative Study
The 1990s were the starting point in the wave of new multiparty democracies in Africa.
Dog-human correlations in post-Soviet and post-apartheid literature and film
My research project falls into the interdisciplinary field of human-animal studies and deals with the discursive formation of human-dog correlation in socio-political discourse.
Expertise and Public Participation in Government Policymaking: South Africa in Comparative Context
The fellowship at STIAS will build on my prior work on comparative administrative law dealing with public participation in policymaking.
Falsified Medicine
The project focuses on falsified medicines - a growing health problem affecting both developed and developing countries.
Fear and Forgiveness – an Eastern Cape story
The killing of Irish nun and medical doctor, Sister Aidan Quinlan, in the East London riots of 1952 at the height of the ANC Defiance Campaign, is an event that has long been difficult in the telling.
From Indian Ocean to African Indian: Through the refracted lens of Capital Art Studio, Zanzibar
What happens when an Indian Ocean past meets an African Indian present in a collection of photographs by Ranchhod and Rohit Oza, family proprietors of Capital Art Studio who together visually captured the worldly place (and centre of the dhow trade and culture) of Zanzibar from 1930 until the present day?
From Sovereignty to Property (and back): The spatial transition of colonial and developmentalist claims over land
Central to the question of land grabs around the world is a tension between the sovereignty of States - and its internal manifestation in the form of eminent domain - and the property rights of individuals and communities.
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.
Generation, Democratization and Gang Violence in the Shanties: Haiti and South Africa
In this project, I seek an opportunity at STIAS to write several chapters of a book based on a comparative account of the nexus between violence and democracy in two shantytowns in Haiti and South Africa.
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 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.
It takes two: Theoretical and clinical advances in vulvodynia from an interpersonal perspective
Vulvodynia is a chronic pain condition that is characterized by recurrent vulvo-vaginal pain that does not have an identifiable cause.
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.
Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State
The purpose of this project is to conclude a book-in-progress, entitled Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State.
Leveraging Sector Development for Urban Transformation in Africa
Africa along with Asia is the epicenter of rapid urbanization in the 21st century.
Lithium-ion batteries and the commercialization of science – a narrative
The project is to write an autobiographical narrative about the research and development of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries from a research curiosity to practical reality.
Local practices and institutions and their relevance for systems of social security. An investigation based on a case study of Senegal, Mali and Gabon .
This project has been built around the premise that by and large the present day social security systems in Africa are failing.
Peace agreements instead of “amicable agreement”: Consociationalism after civil war
How can democracy and social peace survive in societies divided by race, ethnicity, religion, region, language or ideology?
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.
Rethinking Immigrant Integration in a Mass-Migration Era: Migrant Families in Comparative Perspective
In our era of mass migration, understanding migrant families’ efforts to forge and maintain meaningful social and civic ties is more important than ever.
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.
System Change Africa: Evolution not revolution
Finding an African way of dealing with African urbanism: Complexity theory and systems thinking show how governments and people can work together to achieve something that neither could ever achieve alone.
The complex economics of the public domain
Prominent economists (and US trade negotiators) assert that bad things happen when creative works fall into the public domain.
The legacy and lessons of the Khulumani case
During its 12-year trajectory, the Khulumanicase has excited interest worldwide.
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 Power of Injury: Memory, Decolonization, and the Challenges of Modernity in Africa
This book examines the political and social effects of Africa’s prioritization of the experience of colonization in its response to the world, and analyzes the role of Nelson Mandela’s notion of forgiveness in Africa’s inevitable path to modernity.
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.
Three Paths to Constitutionalism
There are three paths to constitutionalism in the modern world.
Traditional Authorities and Decentralisation in Southern Africa
The proposed research project is a study of the recent resurgence of traditional authorities in southern Africa.
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.
2017
A Social History of Democratic South African Told in Nine Lives
The book I am writing is a social history of the first two decades of South African democracy.
Developing an International Prognostic Scoring System for Thalassemia: A New Tool for Revisiting Classification of Thalassemia
Β-thalassemia is classified into three phenotypes, depending on the severity of symptoms: 1) thalassemia major (TM); 2) thalassemia Intermedia (TI); 3) β trait or thalassemia minor (Tm).
The Revolution of Information Economics: The Past and the Future
The economics of information has constituted a revolution in economics, providing explanations of phenomena that previously had been unexplained and upsetting longstanding presumptions, including that of market efficiency, with profound implications for economic policy.