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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.
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.
Defining Humanity through Water and Sanitation
My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.
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.
Ethiopia’s Challenge: Multiple Identities vs. Mono-Identity
Identity conflicts abound globally.
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.
Pacing within sonic spaces: a psychology of music and work
Throughout history, the power of music to enhance productivity at work has been exploited.
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.
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 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.
Uneven Extinction: anxieties over life and death in times of crisis conservation
The current ‘sixth extinction’ event represents a major crisis for conservation as well as for global society more generally.
Women in Law: Perspectives Across Africa
The corpus of scholarship from the Global North signal an increasing global feminization of the legal profession.
2020
Beyond the Secular: Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex
Combining insights from political theology, postcolonial and critical race theories, this project interrogates the contemporary relation between religion and politics through an exploration of Jacques Derrida’s political thought.
Black Archives and Intellectual Histories
Black Archives and Intellectual Histories brings together a range of scholars from South Africa, the continent at large and the black diaspora whose work has transformed our thinking about black intellectual histories and archives.
Deciphering the biological consequences of geometrical isomerization of natural compounds.
Plants produce myriad of compounds with various biological properties.
Fundamentals of laser powder bed fusion of metals
Additive manufacturing (AM) of metals (3d printed metals) is set to disrupt manufacturing industries through its many advantages including complexity and innovation in design, short lead times, minimal waste and distributed manufacturing potential.
Local soil knowledge: a tool for sustainable agricultural systems in Madagascar
Local soil knowledge is an important source of information when designing sustainable agricultural strategies.
Mobility solutions as a South African urban integrator: the Adam Tas Corridor test-bed case
Development planning for the Adam Tas Corridor in Stellenbosch has been undertaken by a multidisciplinary group, including local and provincial planning authorities, urban developers, transport specialists and various Stellenbosch based interested and affected parties, including STIAS, Stellenbosch University and a number of Stellenbosch based businesses.
Occupational Health and Well-being in the Performing Arts in South Africa: The formation of an interdisciplinary Performing Arts Health network led by the universities of Stellenbosch and Pretoria
This project aims to consolidate and develop a national Performing Arts Health network led by Stellenbosch University and the University of Pretoria for interdisciplinary scholarly activity in the field of performing arts health in South Africa.
Small Ocean History
The Small Ocean Project explores how a historical focus on the intimate and ‘everyday’ lives of mobile subjects, within their simultaneously cosmopolitan and parochial worlds and intimate networks for transnational capital accumulation, can help us understand south-south globalization and its effects on Islam, capitalism and international regimes, around the turn of the 20th century.
Splitting Dynamics and Quantum Hydrodynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates
Since the realisation of the first Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) a couple of decades ago, there have been intense works on the quantum gas field, aiming mostly at unravelling the quantum properties of matter at large scale and to experimentally mimic the behaviour of physical systems that cannot be directly explored.
Text, Human Rights and pandemics: Being human in times of contagion
Partly prompted by and responding to the effects of Covid-19, our project takes a long-shot view of text, contagion, and ideas of the rights-bearing human over time.
The politics and poetics of old age: Drawing on Law and Literature to assess the (cultural) legitimacy of African Union norms on the rights of older persons
The African Union in January 2016 adopted a treaty – the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Older Persons – dealing with the rights of older persons in Africa.
Urban Connections in African Popular Imaginaries
The study of popular culture in Africa illustrates that ordinary African residents in urban settings use their local specificities to create popular forms of African cultural production that respond in innovative ways to global cultural imports.
White Women Engaging Black Lives Matter: Problematizing Solidarity in a Time of Identity Politics
The brutal police killing of George Floyd in America on 25 May 2020 has led to global mass protest action through the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement against police brutality and other institutionalized forms of violence against Black people.
Xnau-Xnau⁀GE@MP
The core of our investigation will be generative, site-based investigation into our music improvisation, both as practice and as reflexive engagement.