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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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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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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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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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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 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.
