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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.
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Historical Feeling: Exploring the Decolonisation of History Education
Emotion is part of history, in the way we live, and experience it.
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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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Christianity and Social Thought in Contemporary African Literature
Against the background of ongoing debates about decolonisation and religion in Africa, this project examines the representation of, and engagement with Christianity in contemporary African literature.
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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.
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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?
Publication
Space Contestations and the Teaching of African Philosophy in African Universities
Okeja, Uchenna. 2018. Space Contestations and the Teaching of African Philosophy in African Universities. In Edwin Etieyibo (Ed.), Decolonis...
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Global Corporations, Accountability and International Law
This research would form part of a larger project which aims to produce a new conceptual understanding of the relationship between global corporations, states, state law and international law.
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“Renascent Africa: Cultural Nationalism, Decolonisation, the Nationalist Movement, and Trans-Continental collaborations: The example of Nigeria and South Africa.”
The idea of a renaissance suggests new consciousness, new attitudes, and values that undergird a new era of human development.
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The Responsive University
This project falls under the STIAS longer term theme project University and Society, sub-theme: Understanding the Contemporary University(From the concept note): Universities worldwide are relentlessly focused on attaining ‘excellence’.
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APOCALYPSE 2016-2019: Decline of Jacob Zuma, Rise of South Africa?
The three years 2016 to 2019 will change South Africa more significantly than any other time since the dawn of democracy in 1994.
