Projects

The Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-1970 occasioned the Igbo pogrom and the lingering memory of starvation as a weapon of war.

Ngozika Obi-Ani

This novel will blend a sequence of narratives, set at various turning points in the history of the British Virgin Islands from 1807 To present day, concerned with the themes of body and work, individual and collective identity, and the intersections of trauma and Virgin Islander identity.

Richard Georges

The project intends to develop sustainable construction materials from waste like recycled plastics and natural fibers, reducing negative environmental impacts and promoting resource efficiency.

The use of wastewater epidemiology approach has been on the rise recently due to its cost effectiveness and ability to identify emerging chemicals such as pesticides from wastewater.

Faith Kandie

Archives of the Ethical: Market Exchange, Ethical Relations, and Sensory Politics in the Urban South brings together in comparative perspective, historically situated ethnographic insights of urban market practices in Cape Town, Accra, and Mumbai.

Shaheed Tayob

The place of fans in the sustenance of superstar visibility and the accompanying digital narratives of fandom have been understudied in Nigerian hip-hop.

Paul Onanuga

The annual increase in the global population worldwide puts pressure on the food systems to avail enough food for all global citizens.

Matia Mukama

Blind or visually impaired people (BVIP) are increasingly encountering difficulties in their daily lives.

Achille Melingui

This project will involve collaboration with Jannie Hofmeyr (SU) on, amongst others the principles of supply and demand as driving force of metabolic activity, and incorporating them: 1) into existing experimental data sets to explore adaptive behavior amongst bacteria as a basis for the maintenance of microbial community function in environmental processes, and 2) a state-of-science review related to microbiological considerations for repository engineering and long-term safety of deep geological repositories of nuclear waste, as well as formulating recommendations for the way forward to predict the potential impact of microbial activity on the stability of these repositories.

The proposed study is a book length project on the ideologies that underpin discourses of resistance to the militarisation of relations between African countries and Western imperialists.

Isaac Mwinlaaru

The proposed project seeks to explore how retraction and recantation take shape in experimental writing of the 20th and 21st Century.

Rick De Villiers

A meson fluctuation about a two-flavored chiral soliton model is studied.

Ishmael Takyi

The proposed research will investigate the political role of the military in securing democratic gains in Zambia and Malawi.

Sishuwa Sishuwa

Emotion is part of history, in the way we live, and experience it.

Sarah Godsell

Informal settlements (slums) are rapidly growing in the developing world.

Victoria Namuggala

It will be my task to engage in conversations that build and offer opportunities for cocreation in research and higher education.

Nelson Torto

Although African economic history is enjoying a renaissance, the branch of the subject represented by business remains relatively neglected.

Tony Hopkins

Plant biodiversity is essential to the survival of the human being and the whole biosphere.

Issouf Zerbo

Building on empirical findings of former projects (spread over the years, from 2014 to 2023), the research project aims at conceiving land tenure otherwise, deviating from standard approaches by putting the articulation of interests and claims first; tracing how actors relate to each other and how they try to make their own claims heard and recognized by others.

Aïdas Sanogo

The project will involve the final editing and fine-tuning of the main body of the book Nelson Mandela – Tolerance and Leadership.

This project explores the relationship between two very different types of theology that have characterized theological thinking in the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa during the past 150 years: mystical theology reflecting on the assumptions underlying the personal piety of believers and confessionalism aimed at defending orthodox doctrine.

Vincent Brummer

The proposed project builds on some of my earlier work on music and violence, and is born of the politico-ethical imperative to break the silence surrounding structural violence and abuse in institutionalised spaces devoted to music pedagogy: the lecture room, the teaching studio, the community project.

Carina Venter

Several studies reported that bacterial co-infections have been considered an important contributor to morbidity and mortality of COVID-19.

Alidehou Jerrold Agbankpe

Parity-time (PT) symmetry has attracted a lot of attention in many fields of physics in recent years.

Philippe Djorwé

Cities and larger towns are increasingly home to the majority of people, globally and in South Africa.

This project investigates sound knowledges from Southern African cosmologies and investigate their deployment in black radicalism enacted within Pan-African and black internationalist contexts in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Uhuru Phalafala

Two of the most important global crises of the current historical moment are migration and climate change, with the attendant biodiversity loss and other ecological problems.

Maureen Moynagh

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide including South Africa.

Tshepiso Makhafola

In 2018, the South African government instituted a social assistance payment and registration system that it would administer through a public entity: the South African Post Office (SAPO).

Natasha Vally

Digital inclusion is a real concern when dealing with low-skilled, low-literate people who only speak oral languages.

Jean Louis Fendji

Water is critical for human existence and all life as we know it.

Georgia Destouni

What is the link between the national formal economy on the one hand, and on the other, local community based economic and leisure cultures, which may have been largely self-sustaining but interminably precarious?

Njabulo Ndebele

This is a team project within the Crossing Borders theme.

Catherine du Toit Hans Lindahl Marcelo Neves Sundhya Pahuja Balakrishnan Rajagopal Kaarlo Tuori Louise du Toit

The fate of every organism is death—or so it seems.

Pierre Durand

This proposed study, which is an extension of my current research, sets out to examine the representations of the chitenje (a wrap-around cloth) in Malawian popular arts, as a site for examining how questions of gender, sexuality, class, and national belonging are negotiated.

Asante Lucy Mtenje

This book project concerns the 1963-64 trial of Neville Alexander and ten other members of the National Liberation Front (NLF).

Allison Drew

Many African postcolonies are haunted by the spectre of: the waning efficacy of law enforcement, the ambiguity of authority, and the apparent abandonment of subjects by the state.

John Comaroff Jean Comaroff

‘The Global South’ is rarely seen as a source of explanation for world historical events.

John Comaroff Jean Comaroff

This project investigates the mobilities of black women in Southern Africa.

Athambile Masola

Emergent behaviour seems to be characteristic of the `complex systems that currently feature in Mathematics, Computer Science, the Physical Sciences and Philosophy.

Malaria remains a significant public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

David Niyukuri

This project aims to explore ideas surrounding water within the musical world of eSwatini.

Cara Stacey

While studies in the global North have focused on ‘green gentrification’ driven by park developments and eco-friendly initiatives, a different phenomenon is unfolding in rapidly urbanizing African cities.

Lewis Abedi Asante

Although wine is often conceived of within bounded national histories, it is a commodity that is best understood within a global framework – especially since the transformations necessitated by the spread of phylloxera in the later nineteenth century.

Paul Nugent

Scholarship on mining frontiers tends to be masculine in focus, covering topic such as the centrality of resource extraction in the colonial and post-colonial projects.

Asanda Benya