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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.
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Entanglements of decolonial critiques: on positionality and epistemology in African studies
Recommended Citation Brachet, J. (2026). Entanglements of decolonial critiques: on positionality and epistemology in African studies. Critic...
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Water, drought and song in the Kingdom of eSwatini
This project aims to explore ideas surrounding water within the musical world of eSwatini.
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Women in mining frontiers in Africa: Exploring the diverse ways in which women’s lived experiences and livelihoods around sites of extraction are affected by mines
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.
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Queer Africa
Ncube, G., & Carolin, A. 2025. Queer Africa. The Thinker, 102(1), 8–11. https://doi.org/10.36615/9j1g2881
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Civil Aviation in East Africa 1946-1986 - Outline of a History
With this project I aim to outline the unwritten history of civil aviation in East Africa.
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Blackness at the Intersection
Recommended Citation Batra, K. (2025). Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Kehinde Andrews, and Annabel Wilson, eds. Blackness at the Intersection....
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Politics, Jokes and Power in Africa: The View From Stand-Up Comedy
Nwankwọ, Izuu. 2024. Politics, Jokes and Power in Africa: The View From Stand-Up Comedy. African Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0002...
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African Perspectives on Labor Rights as Enhancers of Democratic Governance
Kalula, Evance and Chanda Chungu. 2022. African Perspectives on Labor Rights as Enhancers of Democratic Governance. In The Cambridge Handboo...
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Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family
Lentz, Carola and Isidore Lobnibe. 2022. Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family. Indiana University Press. https://boo...
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Confronting Racism in Cécile Djunga and Trevor Noah’s Stand-up Comedy
Tunca, Daria and Izuu Nwankwọ. 2022. “Confronting Racism in Cécile Djunga and Trevor Noah’s Stand-up Comedy.” In Stand-up Comedy in Africa: ...
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Stand-up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media
Nwankwọ, Izuu. Ed. 2022. Stand-up Comedy in Africa:Humour in Popular Languages and Media. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag. https://www.ibidem.eu/de...
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Decolonization and Afro-Feminism
Tamale, Sylvia. 2020. Decolonization and Afro-Feminism. Daraja Press. https://darajapress.com/publication/decolonziation_and_afro-feminism
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Democracy, Elections, and Constitutionalism in Africa
Fombad, Charles M. and Nico Steytler. (Eds.) 2021. Democracy, Elections, and Constitutionalism in Africa. Oxford University Press. https://g...
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Women in Law: Perspectives Across Africa
The corpus of scholarship from the Global North signal an increasing global feminization of the legal profession.
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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.
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The cultural semiotics of African encounters: Eighteenth-Century images of the Other
Dunér, David. 2020. The cultural semiotics of African encounters: Eighteenth-Century images of the Other. Semiotica. https://doi.org/10.1515...
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Local media: Western media in a context of orality in Africa
This book project in four parts intends to study how people, coming from a centuries-old orality, act in a context of copyright introduced by colonial and postcolonial authority.
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The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa
Cobbinah, Patrick B and Michael Addaney. (Eds.). 2019. The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa. Cham: Springer Internatio...
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The was, the is and the might-have-been: Political leadership in post-apartheid South Africa
Bill Nasson. 2008. The was, the is and the might-have-been: Political leadership in post-apartheid South Africa. Journal of African History,...
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The Cry of Winnie Mandela (Revised edition with new content)
Njabulo Ndebele. 2013. The Cry of Winnie Mandela (Revised edition with new content). Picador Africa, 336 pp. EAN: 978 1 77010 308 5.
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Pentecostalism, Political Masculinity and Citizenship
Van Klinken, Adriaan. 2016. Pentecostalism, Political Masculinity and Citizenship. Journal of Religion in Africa 46:129–57. http://eprints.w...
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Navigating epistemic disarticulations
Musila, Grace A. 2017. Navigating epistemic disarticulations. African Affairs, 116(465), 692–704. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adx031
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The Role of Laws, Policies, and Constitutional Rights in Advancing Gender Equality in Africa and Globally
In every country, women earn less than men; in all but five, women are less likely to have paid employment.
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Everyday Authoritarianism: Urban Life and Politics in Luanda, Angola
This project poses the question of how authoritarian politics systems institutionalise themselves through everyday life.
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Faith and Fabric
Relations between faith and the fabric – whether political, social, economic, cultural or moral – of communities, societies and the global world are increasingly studied in many disciplines, not primarily because of the popular claim that religion is back and the fact that the so-called secularization theory is today rejected by many, but rather since many scholars increasingly recognize the public role of faith, not in the sense of religious convictions, communities and traditions, but in the sense of basic axioms and values, core beliefs and commitments (Taylor), cardinal convictions (Huber), notions of the sacred (Joas), in short, the faith of the faithless (Critchley).
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Sex and Sexuality in Africa: A Brief History
Since at least the 1980s, historians of Africa have produced a rich and nuanced scholarship on sex and sexuality on the continent.
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Mobilizing for Natural Resource Management at the Micro-level in Rural Africa
Natural resource management (NRM) involves efforts by different institutions to formulate and implement laws, policies and legislation to ensure viable use of natural resources.
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Rethinking Development in the Global Information Age: Implications for Africa
This seminar conducted by Manuel Castells is a follow-up to his previous STIAS seminar Informational Development and Human Development: South Africa in a Global Perspective (24–26 August 2011).
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Animal, Mineral or Vegetable?
During my time at STIAS I will collaborate with Stellenbosch faculty in both the humanities and the sciences to examine ancient Egyptian mummies, particularly those belonging to animals.
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Decolonial thoughts
Work at STIAS will be the final draft of four lectures which were delivered in 2013 at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) in Johannesburg under the general topic of Decolonial Thoughts.
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Post-apartheid state engagement with customary structures
This project will contribute to a greater comparative understanding of state-customary knowledge and its challenges in Africa by way of a study of the experience of the post-apartheid State in this regard.
