INVITE | Debating Decolonization as a Theory of Knowledge

Thursday, 20 October, 2022 - 18:00

WiSER warmly invites you to the next session in our series on the futures of decolonizati

How Zipline is redefining healthcare delivery in Africa by Georges Macaire Eyenga

MEDICAL DRONES

How Zipline is redefining healthcare delivery in Africa

After proving itself on the African continent, in Ghana and Rwanda in particular, the Californian firm is about to enter the American market for delivering medicines by drone. An activity that has everything to please, insofar as it can save lives, but which raises a number of fears about the use of the data collected…

Programme in African Digital Humanities : Beyond Year Three

Thursday, 28 July, 2022 - 13:00

WISER's Programme in African Digital Humanities invites you to join us for a series of on-li

Antarctica, Africa and the Arts Workshop 2022

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.

Four novelists, one ocean: how Indian Ocean literature can remap the world

Novels make worlds. They create an intuitive sense and mental image of a place. And the senses of space produced by fiction shape how readers see the world itself, just like maps do.

WiSER’s Hlonipha Mokoena in conversation with Abongile Nzelenzele

Podcast | WiSER’s Hlonipha Mokoena in conversation with @CapeTalk’s Abongile Nzelenzele talking 100-year story of South Africa’s our first history book published in isiZulu.

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