HUMA Blog
The HUMA Blog houses reflections from workshops, seminars, conferences, events -- featuring research conducted by our fellows made possible by our funders.
Women in Research Leadership Development Symposium
Doctoral Research Fellow Fanidh Sanogo reflects on her participation amongst other outstanding early career researchers from multiple academic disciplines in sub-Saharan Africa, brought together by CIFAR in Kigali, Rwanda.
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Should Africa De-Link From The West To Settle The Past Injustices?
Exploring Africa's Shift: In a thought-provoking piece, Anthropologist Minga Kongo delves into Africa's evolving stance post-Nigerien coup and the Africa-Russia Summit.
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Charting networks of care for the elderly in South(ern) Africa
Blog: Recap of the HUMA Ataya seminar with Professor Elena Moore: 'Family care of older persons in South(ern) Africa'.
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Landscapes as witnesses to history: Canham's Riotous Deathscapes
Blog: Recap of the HUMA Book Launch with Hugo ka Canham: 'Riotous Deathscapes'. Discussant: Associate Professor Christopher Ouma.
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Highlights of Saikat Majumdar: 'Autodidactic nation. Education and literary subjectivity in 20th century South Africa'
Blog: Recap of the HUMA African Epistemologies Advanced Seminar with Professor Saikat Majumdar: 'The Amateur: literary self-making and the humanities in the postcolony'.
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“African history should be a core part of curriculum” argues Shamil Jeppie
A new initiative by HUMA and Historical Studies Department (UCT), Know Your Continent, poses critical questions about the role of African history in knowledge production and curriculum reform.
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Out in Africa?
This one-day conference on June 2 saw African scholars and activists coming together to try and make sense of the “rising hatred and anti-humanist turn in the continent”. It was the culmination of a series of events on the Africa month.
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