HUMA Blog

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.