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HUMA Team at ECAS 2025: African, Afropean, Afropolitan

Between June 25-28 2025, members of the HUMA Team traveled to Prague, Czech Republic to participate in the European Conference of African Studies (ECAS) 2025. The theme of this year’s conference was “African, Afropean, Afropolitan.”

New Visiting Research Fellows at HUMA

We are delighted to welcome 14 new visiting research fellows to the HUMA space to share in dialogue, discussion, and research collaboration as we reopen the Institute for the second semester of 2025.

Reimagining Research in Africa with the Africa Charter: The 16th AAU General Conference in Rabat

As the 16th AAU General Conference approaches, taking place from 21–25 July in Rabat, we are reminded of a milestone moment: the launch of the Africa Charter for Transformative Research Collaborations at COREVIP 2023 in Windhoek.

HUMA Doctoral Fellow, Tina-Louise Smith, presents at the July 2025 #IAmHistory Conference in Cape Town

My PhD research is in crime fiction series on Showmax. Thus, my analysis and interpretation draws from television theory and surprisingly also from history.

The future of hospitals, from the South. Epistemologies & Experimentations Workshop

The second phase of the AI and the future of hospital care in Africa workshop is taking place in Paris, France (16th to 19th) at MSH—Paris Nord

Announcing new HUMA Fellows

We are delighted to welcome 3 research fellows to the Institute.

“How AI exploits” | Development and Cooperation

Op-ed by Postdoctoral Research Fellow Azza Mustafa Ahmed and co-writer Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón

Commentary: Reconfiguring hospitals as affective infrastructures

Amina Soulimani writes a commentary on "Bodies of Knowledge: Children and Childhoods in Health and Affliction" edited by Efua Prah and Susan Levine.

Prof Francis Nyamnjoh to deliver ECAS Keynote Speech

University of Cape Town Anthropology Professor Francis Nyamnjoh will be delivering the International Africa Institute’ IAI Biennial Lecture at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS2025).

Climate and Territory: Pre-COP 30 (2025) National Meeting of Researchers in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development

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.

Gender, Dress and Identity

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.

Television's Long Journey to South African Screens

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.

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