HUMA Blog

Visiting Research Fellow Dulce Maria Pereira recently attended the Pre-COP30_IX National Meeting of Researchers in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development at UNAERP and presented on climate and territory.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Emily Mashonganyika reflects on her experience guest teaching for African Feminist Studies: Debates on Gender, Politics, and Sexualities in Contemporary African Contexts.

Doctoral Research Fellow Tina-Louise Smith reflects on her experience teaching a class about television's history in South Africa to a group of eighth graders.

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.

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.

Blog: Recap of the HUMA Ataya seminar with Professor Elena Moore: 'Family care of older persons in South(ern) Africa'.

Blog: Recap of the HUMA Book Launch with Hugo ka Canham: 'Riotous Deathscapes'. Discussant: Associate Professor Christopher Ouma.

Blog: Recap of the HUMA African Epistemologies Advanced Seminar with Professor Saikat Majumdar: 'The Amateur: literary self-making and the humanities in the postcolony'.

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.

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.