Congo Style: how two dictators shaped the DRC’s art, architecture and monuments

Submitted by WiSER Admin on 5 March, 2024 - 10:49

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

Future Knowledges and Their Implication for the Decolonisation Project

Submitted by WiSER Admin on 1 March, 2024 - 17:00

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

Full article here. @jcafjournal

Institut Francais de Pondycherry | Digital & Society: Social Sciences Winter School

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 6 November, 2023 - 10:25

Between November 12 and 19, the Trust Doctoral fellows will be attending a week long Winter School in Pondycherry, India hosted by the Institut Francais de Pondycherry. 

For more information follow this link:  https://www.ifpindia.org/ifp-in-spotlight/digital-society-social-science...

Book Banner 2023

Submitted by WiSER Admin on 17 October, 2023 - 12:45

Top - Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg, Noni Jabavu: A Stranger at Home by Athambile Masola, Makhosazana Xaba, Noni Jabavu, Ndabaningi Sithole: A Forgotten Founding Father by Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House by Isabel Hofmeyr, 

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Why Care?

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 17 July, 2023 - 10:07
Hassim, Shireen. "Why Care?" Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 107 (2021): 53-66.

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