Announcements
Wednesday, 12 August, 2026 - 16:00
Leigh Gardner
Formal recognition of Liberia’s sovereignty offered the government the opportunity to borrow on international markets that were growing rapidly during the second half of the nineteenth century. However, like other independent more
Monday, 17 August, 2026 - 16:00
Sarah Nuttall
You are warmly invited to the third session in a new seminar series on Monday 17 August 4-5pm SAST
Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations
Convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall
*Throughout the series, we will more
Wednesday, 19 August, 2026 - 16:00
Deborah James and Caitlin Zaloom
How does a household come to exist? What tools do its members use to draw some together and expel others? How do households articulate with the spheres of economy and politics and their forms of power and control? Many answers rest in the more
Wednesday, 26 August, 2026 - 16:00
Bruce Hall
This paper is an effort to make sense of accounting documents that survive in the papers of Saharan traders, mostly from the nineteenth century. I am interested in these documents as a means of understanding how commercial capital was more
Wednesday, 2 September, 2026 - 16:00
Kate Ekama
This paper uses manumission as a lens through which to explore the financial lives of enslaved people in nineteenth-century Cape Town. Between 1825 and 1834, more than one thousand two hundred people were manumitted in the city, about a more
Wednesday, 16 September, 2026 - 16:00
Lyndsey Frederick Braun
This article concerns the birth and death of the proposed Survey Law of 1874 in the South African Republic (Transvaal), a law that promised to 'correct' flawed or fraudulent knowledge with an ongoing triangulation and a general survey of more
Wednesday, 23 September, 2026 - 16:00
Bulelani Jili
This conversation examines Huawei’s rise in Kenya as part of a broader transformation in African digital governance. The sections trace how telecommunications liberalization shifted the state from direct infrastructure provision more
Wednesday, 30 September, 2026 - 16:00
Shuaib Jalal-Eddeen
This article examines the resistance strategies employed by fintech users in Jimeta, Nigeria against the violent techniques used by fintech companies to enforce loan repayments. While efforts to extend access to financial services are more
Wednesday, 7 October, 2026 - 16:00
Eric Magale
Co-operatives have long been important institutions for low- to middle-income Kenyans, long before the financial inclusion discourse came about. But it was the advent of mobile money in 2008 that transformed Kenya's financial services more
Wednesday, 14 October, 2026 - 16:00
Erin Torkelson
Over the past decade and a half the South African social grant payment system has changed several times -- but, debt has been part and parcel of each new system. Between 2012 and 2015, the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) more
Wednesday, 21 October, 2026 - 16:00
Danny Bradlow and Magalie Masamba
Africa's sovereign debt crisis is exacerbating human rights vulnerabilities, yet the African human rights systems and institutions have remained largely absent from debt governance debates. While regional human rights systems do not more
Monday, 26 October, 2026 - 17:00
Sarah Nuttall
You are warmly invited to participate in a new seminar series
Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations
Convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall
In an age of extinction, partial adaption and survival, what would a better more
Saturday, 31 October, 2026 - 00:00
Sarah Nuttal
You are warmly invited to participate in a new seminar series
Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations
Convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall
In an age of extinction, partial adaption and survival, what would a better more