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How do you sign it? Creating a multimedia multilingual descriptive grammar of South African Sign Language on a digital platform

In August 2023 South African Sign Language (SASL) became the 12th language to be officially recognized in South Africa. This has drastically...

Anne Baker Anne Baker

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Developing a Model for Electronic Dictionaries

The advent of the electronic area has opened new ways to conceptualise and to organise knowledge.

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Rethinking AI ethics through an Akan ontology: advancing an ethics of becoming for sustainable AI

Inusah, H. 2025. Rethinking AI ethics through an Akan ontology: advancing an ethics of becoming for sustainable AI. Canadian Journal of Afri...

Husein Inusah Husein Inusah

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South African Literature: Global Challenges, New Humanities

This project positions South African Literature within the emergence of the New Humanities (Medical, Environmental, Digital), and orients both toward Medical, Scientific and Social Sciences’ emphases on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Brendon Nicholls Brendon Nicholls

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Decoding the Ancient Sacred Landscapes of the Arid Southern Levant (Southern Jordan/Israel): The Desert Cults Mapping Project

The proposed project investigates the sacred landscapes of the southern arid margins of the Levant (now southern Jordan/Israel), as observed by the spatial distribution and the material culture of the cultic and funerary sites of the mostly semi-pastoral peoples that lived in the area from the Neolithic to the Early Islamic period (ca.

Juan Manuel Tebes Juan Manuel Tebes

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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.

Lynda Spencer Lynda Spencer Tina Steiner Tina Steiner Nedine Moonsamy Nedine Moonsamy Danai Mupotsa Danai Mupotsa Corinne Sandwith Corinne Sandwith

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Coetzee, Kentridge, and the Computer: Automation and the Arts in South Africa

This study explores the reciprocal relationship between technology, politics, and the arts.

Mark Sanders Mark Sanders