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2022
Advancing Gender Equality in Africa and Globally: Strengthening Health and Economic Outcomes by Learning What Works at Scale
Around the world, gender inequality continues to shape individual opportunities, families, and societies.
Certain uncertainties: Identity politics, power and categorisation in postcolonial Kenya
Before the 2017 election, Kenya’s President declared the minority ethnic Makonde community recognised as ‘the 43rd tribe of Kenya’.
Developing a complexity science capable of solving practical, important, and urgent problems
The process of transforming agriculture in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is, especially for policymakers and decisionmakers, highly complex.
Developmental origins of racial and gender bias in very young children and how it unfolds
This project addresses how, and how early, racial and gender biases emerge in young children and how they are shaped by the linguistic and social communities (families, schools, neighborhoods) in which children are raised.
Methodological Work Towards a Contemporary African Ephemeral Literature Archive
The published novel is on the decline across the African continent.
Paths from Personalist Rule: Understanding Institutional Transformation in Contemporary Africa
This project analyzes the fates of rulers and regimes which came to power in Africa in the 1980s-90s.
Relational Egalitarianism and the Equality Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Equality is both a foundational value of the Constitution of South Africa and a protected right.
Religion and Dialogue in Modern Societies: Possibilities, Challenges, and Limitations of Interreligious Dialogue, with a Focus on Dialogue in Theology and Education
The growing religious pluralisation of modern societies has placed the question of religions and dialogue at the centre of public and academic attention.
The politics of blood and the memory of the martyrs: an inquiry into the political legacy of Bantu Stephen Biko
In September 1977, Bantu Stephen Biko was murdered by the South African security police.
Trespassing as a way of being: ancestral heritage in South Africa
My study of prehistoric art in the Northern Cape, South Africa probes the quest for an authentic past in relation to the region’s complex, layered history, from ancient traces to contemporary concerns.
Why Do Authoritarian Regimes in Africa Adopt Women’s Rights Reforms?
The recent authoritarian turn globally raises questions about what happens to women’s rights in such contexts.
2021
A History of South African Literature - Afrikaans Literature since 1930
The third volume concluding my comprehensive, novel history of South-African/Afrikaans literature explores the period from the 1930s onwards.
Adopting Electronic Nose for Detection of False Codling Moth on Pepper Exports in Uganda
The false codling moth (FCM) is a key quarantine pest in Africa.
African Cinemas: Spaces, Technologies, Audiences and Genres
This research project presents an ethnography and political economy of different spaces – cinemas, film festivals, websites, and other public spaces – where African films are screened, as well as an analysis of contemporary African films and of the genres and trends they represent.
Analyzing Natural Disaster Management Policy in SSA
Although an African Union Comprehensive Strategy Guide for Disaster Risk Reduction (AUDRR) exists, escalating natural disasters continue to aggravate livelihood insecurity across the continent, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Animist Humanism: Decolonizing Philosophy of Religion In And Through African Cosmo-Sense
Increasingly, philosophy of religion is charged with failing to admit its Eurocentric character.
Capital Movement Through Trade Misinvoicing in Africa: A disaggregate approach
It is now recognized that poverty reduction efforts in Africa are undermined by capital flight.
Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa
The main purpose of this project is to interrogate whether the challenges faced by the new generation of African constitutions to enhance the prospects for constitutionalism was due, inter alia, to their lack of alignment with the African social context in terms of reflecting an African constitutional identity.
Constitutionalism and the internet in Africa: Progress, challenges and prospects
There is no doubt that significant inroads are made in of information technology in Africa.
Desire, Agency, and Gender in Ancient Near Eastern Love Poetry
The Song of Songs, a collection of ancient erotic poetry known to the modern reader as a part of the Jewish and Christian Bible, belongs to the ancient Near Eastern tradition of love poetry together with the poems written in Sumerian, Akkadian, and Egyptian.
Documentary, Desire, Description: South Africa’s ‘Second World War’ and the mediation/materialisation of ‘witness’
This project centres on South Africa’s first illustrated magazine Libertas (1940 -1946) a vehicle of anti-Fascist advocacy and propaganda for pro-Allied engagement in WW2.
Epistemic Virtues of African Proverbs: Implications for Decolonizing Knowledge in Africa
This project examines Akan and Yoruba epistemic virtue proverbs and theorises how they can be harnessed to transform knowledge and achieve epistemic decolonisation in Africa.
Establishing Optimal Approaches for the Fabrication of Artificial Tongues for Smart Detection and Removal of Toxic Metals in Water
The health risks associated with the presence of toxic metals in water require the use of highly selective and sensitive techniques for accurately monitoring their presence and removing them to ensure public health safety.
Fight against antimicrobial resistance in poultry farms in Benin by bacteriophages: a study based on the One Health approach
In Benin, the preliminary studies showed that the leafy vegetables produced in southern Benin were contaminated with C.
Gandhi’s Satyagraha: Exploring Non-Violent Alternatives for Effective Political Resistance and Transformation
Challenges confronting our contemporary world like terrorism, populism, and religious pluralism recommend revisiting Gandhi’s concept of satyagraha.
Genealogies of music accompanied narratives in South Africa: Choral tradition, music theatre and opera
The multivalent opportunities provided by the post-apartheid policy-led transforming cultural scene saw an intensification of cultural activities mushrooming throughout the country.
Government agricultural finance interventions as instruments for social protection: a comparative review of developing economies
Strategies promoting social protection for agricultural growth have been remarkably successful in some countries (mainly Asian countries) but not in others (mainly African countries).
Health-economic modelling of strategies to manage gynaecologic cancer in developed countries and low resource settings
Cervical cancer is globally the third most common cancer in women, and in South Africa it is more common than breast cancer.
Is it well with my soul? Effects of contemporary African religious practices on well-being
Promotion of well-being and healthy lives is the third goal of the United Nations Organization Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) (United Nations Organization, 2015) and as such well-being has become a major concern among national leaders and policymakers.
Metaphors of identity, recognition and connection in the 20th century - cell biology and literature
Every knowledge-based discipline proceeds trough history by coining new terms.
Mitigating antimicrobial resistance: Implications for ecological and public health
Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem which affects both developing and developed nations.
Orthogonal polynomials and data sciences
Orthogonal polynomials appear in many areas of applied mathematics and in particular in numerical analysis.
Patent Offices – The Problem of Profits: What striving for PTO profits can do to a patent system
This project aims to address the economic mechanisms governing or heavily influencing all significant patent offices (PTOs) worldwide.
Queues of Limitless Hope: The Novel and Social Crisis in the African Republic of Letters
Queues of Limitless Hope asks: what happens to the novel form under the conditions of protracted socio-political crisis?
Representing Discontent: South Africa in words and on screen
This project focuses on the affective shaping of identity in South African texts of the 21st century.
Review on the use of BTK inhibitors
The beauty of BTK inhibitors is that they impair tumor development by blocking normal, unmutated BTK, causing many lymphoid tumors to be sensitive, as we have reviewed.
Sleeping beauties: Dormant innovations in nature and culture
Innovations in biological evolution and in human culture – from science to the arts – arise by processes with multiple parallels.
Study of multiple scales epidemiological models using Tikhonov-Vasilieva and geometric singular perturbation theory
The presented project aims at a systematic study of multiple scale models in epidemiology.
The construction of the Shona subject as historical, contemporary, personal and social in Zimbabwe: the impact of the social fabric in the construction of the individual
The trilogy is a young adult dystopian speculative fiction designed to sensitize African and global adults, to the need to engage politically and personally in order to take their destiny into their own hands.
The Dialectics of Emancipation and Africa: political theory and political practice
Beginning from the understanding that it is imperative today to develop new concepts for the thinking of an emancipatory politics on the African continent (Fanon), this book develops and expands into new empirical domains the arguments first enunciated in my treatise on political theory Thinking Freedom in Africa: toward a theory of emancipatory politics which was awarded the Frantz Fanon Prize in 2017.
The Evolutionary Commons
Humanity is facing an existential crisis from global climate change.
The First Generation of Independent African Leaders and the Making of the African Nation-State
This research project examines the first generation of independent African leaders and how they went about constructing new African nation-states: forging a sense of nationhood out of disparate African ethnic groups brought together within artificial colonial boundaries through colonial rule; imagining the new nation through culture, religion, and the arts; choosing or defining a development model in a world divided into opposing camps of East and West by the Cold War; and the excitement of new sub-disciplines like development economics and its promise to transform former tropical colonies.
The Legacies of the International Criminal Court Intervention in Kenya
The International Criminal Court (ICC) intervened in Kenya after the disputed 2007/8 election that led to displacement of more than 650,000 people and death of 1133 lives according to the post-election violence commission report (GOK 2008).
The manipulability theories of causality in the space of the multiple mental representations of time flow: how stable is causal relationship?
Human mind continuously produces explanations because an explained world is perceived as more understandable, more secure, open for forecasting and for planning of successful actions.
Towards epistemic justice: Language, identity, and relations of knowing in postcolonial schools
This project is concerned with the role of language in epistemic justice, defined as an ethical project of reversing epistemic exclusions, mitigating epistemic harm, and seeking parity of epistemic authority for historically marginalized speakers and knowers.
Viniculture in Ethiopia
The most important wine country in Africa is South Africa where grapes and wine were introduced by the white settlers in the 17th century.
Women in Law: Perspectives Across Africa
The corpus of scholarship from the Global North signal an increasing global feminization of the legal profession.