Blogs

Achille Mbembe on the Ebola Crisis

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 21 January, 2015 - 10:56

Achille Mbembe on how the ebola crisis reveals Africa's dependence on the West.

Review of A Man of Good Hope in the Observer

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 4 January, 2015 - 12:42

Ian Birrell reviews Jonny Steinberg's A Man of Good Hope in the Observer.

On the Publication of 'Kritik der schwarzen Vernunft'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 3 December, 2014 - 18:15

Die Zeit interviews Achille Mbembe on the German translation of Critique de la raison nègre - Kritik der schwarzen Vernunft. (In German.)

Media Coverage of 'The Matric as Metric'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 3 December, 2014 - 15:26

Our final Public Positions event for 2014 on the Matric as Metric drew a large and enthusiastic audience. Media coverage includes articles in:

The Mail and Guardian,

The Daily Maverick,

Lisa Vetten, 'The River Runs Dry'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 28 November, 2014 - 10:40

Research Associate Lisa Vetten on South Africa's floundering gender equality project.

Publication of Christopher J. Lee's 'Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 19 November, 2014 - 05:15

In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa—contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia—from the 1910s to the 1960s.

Workshop: Building Critical Health Social Sciences in Southern Africa, 9-13 March 2015

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 18 November, 2014 - 02:37

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A WORKSHOP ON

Building the Critical Health Social Sciences in Southern Africa

Hosted by the Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences,
School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town,
in partnership with the Institute for Development Studies at Sussex University

9 – 13 March 2015, Malmesbury, South Africa (near Cape Town)

Application deadline: 20 December 2014

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