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Pan-African Powerhouses: The Interwoven Stories of Ghana and Tanzania
Positioned as fathers of Pan-Africanism on the continent, and hailed as heroes in the 21st century Nyerere and Nkrumah are two of the most highly regarded leaders of the independence era.
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Counter-securitization: Discourses of Resistance and Decoloniality from Africa
The proposed study is a book length project on the ideologies that underpin discourses of resistance to the militarisation of relations between African countries and Western imperialists.
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Sound Knowledges of the Black World
This project investigates sound knowledges from Southern African cosmologies and investigate their deployment in black radicalism enacted within Pan-African and black internationalist contexts in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Publication
Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement
Phalafala, Uhuru Portia. 2024. Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement. Boydell & Brewer. https://boydellandbrewer.com/97818...
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Alkebulan: The Return of the Leopard
Alkebulan: The Return of the Leopard is set in the formative phases of the African Federation made up of the continent and its diasporas – Caribbean Africa, European Africa, N.
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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.
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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.
Publication
Culture Wars, Race, and Sexuality A Nascent Pan-African LGBT-Affirming Christian Movement and the Future of Christianity
Van Klinken, Adriaan. 2017. Culture Wars, Race, and Sexuality A Nascent Pan-African LGBT-Affirming Christian Movement and the Future of Chri...
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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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Retrospective and Prospective Reflections on Higher Education in Africa
The paper begins with a historical background attempting to provide an African wide perspective unifying the often fragmented contributions of North Africa, South Africa and the rest of the continent.
