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2026
Activist Language Scholarship: A Framework for Integrity
Our project joins sociolinguistics, philosophy of science, and research ethics in an extensive and close collaboration to explore the conditions of integrity in politically engaged scholarship.
African population exposure to extreme weather events under solar radiation modification (SRM) geoengineering
Climate change is causing extreme weather events, including droughts, floods, heat waves, and heat stress, which are threatening sectors such as food security, access to drinking water, and public health.
American DNA: Bioethics and the Excavation of Difference from the Human Genome
The resurgence of race in genomic research has renewed longstanding debates about the biological basis of human difference, raising urgent ethical questions about how science reanimates and recodes the meaning of race.
Assessing the impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in African montane ecosystems
The 2030 agenda for sustainable development by the United Nations emphasizes the need to protect the planet from degradation…… (UN, 2015).
Chronocide: Temporal Dimensions of Russian Foreign Policy Discourse
The project aims at deconstructing the temporal dimensions of the Russian foreign policy discourse.
Classification conundrums: Classifying, re-classifying and de-classifying conflicts involving alliances, coalitions, umbrella groups and proxy’s
The proposed monograph aims explore the following constructs, ‘alliances’, ‘coalitions’, ‘umbrella groups’ and ‘proxy’s’ in the context of the law of conflict classification.
Cost of Testimony: Mediating and Marketing the Suffering of Distant Others
My project explores the aesthetics, ethics and politics of literary witnessing in five auto/biographical texts from the S-21 detention centre in Cambodia in relation to the politics of representation and the mediation of victims’ voices in witness literature from the cultural margins.
Critical Raw Materials and Technological Transitons: tethinking natural resource-led development models
Critical raw materials (CRMs) are increasingly vital to contemporary economies and societies.
Geophysical Fingerprinting of African Archaeological Sites: Developing a Multi-Method Framework for Characterizing Historical Clay and Mud Structures
This project aims to develop a comprehensive framework for characterizing traditional clay and mud-based structures in African archaeological contexts.
How the ocean ventilates heat and carbon
A primary challenge to 21st century global climate predictability is understanding the ocean’s role as a heat and carbon sink or source to the atmosphere.
Human models to understand and treat autoimmune disorders
We will use different approaches to clarify what initiates an autoimmune disease and to devise better treatment.
Immunogenicity of multi-epitope transmission-blocking vaccine candidates based on Aedes mosquito saliva proteins
From January 2022 to August 2024, a total of 45,652 cases and 1492 deaths were reported in 12 African countries.
Inorganic nitrate, a dietary approach for prevention of cardiovascular disease
We study the chemical biology, physiology, and therapeutic effects of nitric oxide (NO) and related reactive nitrogen oxides.
Moral Economies in African Muslim Societies
The project proposes to study and bring attention to contemporary moral economies in African Muslim societies that are overlooked.
Orchid or dandelion: network analysis of social and psychological factors
Mental illness leads to great suffering for affected individuals and is one of societies’ largest challenges.
Pan-African Powerhouses: The Interwoven Stories of Ghana and Tanzania
Positioned as fathers of Pan-Africanism on the continent, and hailed as heroes in the 21st century Nyerere and Nkrumah are two of the most highly regarded leaders of the independence era.
South African prison writing
This research project returns to and reconsiders the many representations of prison experience by political prisoners under apartheid, comparing them to new memoirs published since 2000.
The Expansion of West African Pidgin: Social and Linguistic Factors
West African Pidgin (Pidgin) is a group of related, mutually intelligible varieties that emerged from contact between English and African languages in coastal West Africa.
Trauma Theory and Childhoods in African Fiction
This monograph project intervenes in the timely debate around the ‘decolonisation’ of trauma theory by providing a revised understanding of the theory’s Euro-American foundations primarily dominated by Freudian psychoanalysis and northern scholarship on the issue of difference.
Writing the Definitive Book on How Insects Breathe
Insects are by far the most successful and diverse group of animals on the planet.
Zambia’s Shifting perceptions of China, the Chinese and Zambia-China Relations: From the state to the subnational
The project identifies three main epochs that demonstrate Zambia’s shifting perceptions of China the state, Chinese individuals and Zambia-China relations - from an era of intersecting solidarity to economic and political necessity.
2025
A Forest of Memories: Trauma and the Biafran Identity in Post-colonial Nigeria
The Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-1970 occasioned the Igbo pogrom and the lingering memory of starvation as a weapon of war.
AI-powered material optimisation for an environmentally conscious construction industry
The project intends to develop sustainable construction materials from waste like recycled plastics and natural fibers, reducing negative environmental impacts and promoting resource efficiency.
Application of wastewater-based epidemiology to determine human exposure to pesticides within selected counties in western Kenya
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.
Archives of the Ethical: Market Exchange, Ethical Relations, and Sensory Politics in the Urban South
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.
Artiste Rivalry, Digital Fandom and the Narratives of Oppositional Politics in Nigerian Hip-Hop
The place of fans in the sustenance of superstar visibility and the accompanying digital narratives of fandom have been understudied in Nigerian hip-hop.
Assessment of the current cold chain potential of the Ugandan food system
The annual increase in the global population worldwide puts pressure on the food systems to avail enough food for all global citizens.
Counter-securitization: Discourses of Resistance and Decoloniality from Africa
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.
Ctrl Z: Undoing Narratives
The proposed project seeks to explore how retraction and recantation take shape in experimental writing of the 20th and 21st Century.
Decay Widths of Baryon Resonance
A meson fluctuation about a two-flavored chiral soliton model is studied.
Gunning for Democracy: The Military and Power Transfers in Malawi and Zambia
The proposed research will investigate the political role of the military in securing democratic gains in Zambia and Malawi.
Historical Feeling: Exploring the Decolonisation of History Education
Emotion is part of history, in the way we live, and experience it.
Igniting conversations that nurture equitable collaboration and cocreation
It will be my task to engage in conversations that build and offer opportunities for cocreation in research and higher education.
Impact of climate change and land use on the conservation of Pterocarpus species in Burkina Faso (West Africa)
Plant biodiversity is essential to the survival of the human being and the whole biosphere.
Land tenure in secondary cities: discourses, practices, and social representations
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.
Playing at/against power: Histories of Trauma and Abuse in South African Music-Pedagogical Spaces
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.
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.
Sound Knowledges of the Black World
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.
Sympathetic Species: Kin and Kind in the Contemporary Global Novel
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.
Targeting alternative splicing for cancer therapy using South African medicinal plants and phytocompounds
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide including South Africa.
Temporality and Technologies in South African Social Grant Life, 2020 and Beyond
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).
Textless Speech-to-Speech translation for voice user interfaces using an oral language to assist low-skilled, low-literate people
Digital inclusion is a real concern when dealing with low-skilled, low-literate people who only speak oral languages.
The African freshwater system: pressure-impact relationships, changes, and risks
Water is critical for human existence and all life as we know it.
The evolution and philosophy of endogenous death
The fate of every organism is death—or so it seems.
Ukuhamba kukubona (to travel is to see): a feminist exploration of the intellectual legacies of black women's mobilities
This project investigates the mobilities of black women in Southern Africa.
Understanding the effects of malaria parasites and vector biomolecular dynamics on malaria transmission through multiscale modelling and agent-based models
Malaria remains a significant public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Water, drought and song in the Kingdom of eSwatini
This project aims to explore ideas surrounding water within the musical world of eSwatini.
Wetland gentrification in African cities: Implications for urban governance, planning, and theory
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.