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

Die Zeit interviews Achille Mbembe. (In German.)

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,

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

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.

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