Phumeza Majola's blog

The nationalist art of Mobutu Sese Seko and the art nouveau style of King Leopold II both live on in Kinshasa in fascinating ways.

Full article on The Conversation - Ruth Sacks

Achille Mbembe asks whether academic institutions can be spaces of radical hospitality or whether they are simply sites of power?

Full article here. @jcafjournal

ASSAF Gold Medal Awards Oct 2022

Professor Achille Mbembe awarded alongside Professor Karen Hoffman for "the ‘ASSAf Science-for-Society Gold Medal’ for outstanding achievement in scientific thinking to the benefit of society."

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Achille Mbembe featured in Curios.ty 14 (#Wits100): A century of doing good. The issue looks at Achille as being one of the many important researchers. 
 

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Noni Jabavu: A Stranger at Home - Makhosazana Xaba, Athambile Masola, Noni Jabavu featured in WitsReview April issue.

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Congratulations to WiSER's Prof. Isabel Hofmeyr for being AWARDED Best Non-Fiction: Monograph for Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House #HSSAward2023

Two Wits professors awarded Science for Society Gold Medals


The Academy of Science of South Africa has awarded its highest honour, Science for Society Gold Medals, to Wits Professors Karen Hofman and Achille Mbembe.

 

ASSAf annually awards ASSAf Science for Society Gold Medals in recognition of outstanding achievements by individuals. Up to two Gold Medals are awarded per annum for outstanding achievement in scientific thinking for the benefit of society.

The NRF SANAP project, ‘Antarctica, Africa and the Arts’, hosted a workshop from 23 to 25 May at Cape Agulhas National Park, with a focus on Africa’s relationship to its south-facing coastlines from the perspective of the arts and humanities. The workshop brought scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines together with creative practitioners, with the aim of navigating what it means to think Antarctica from Africa during the era of climate change.