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Achille Mbembe becomes Africa’s first Holberg Prize laureate

Professor Achille Mbembe, from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has become the first African to win the Holberg Prize, recognizing his pioneering work in the humanities, social sciences, law, or theology. Awarded annually with a value of approximately US$575,000, the prize honors Mbembe's contributions that challenge traditional views on decolonization and humanity. His influential research, which has been translated into 17 languages, promotes a global understanding that transcends racial and colonial legacies.

Political theorist Achille Mbembe named 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate

Achille Mbembe, an outstanding researcher in the fields of humanities, social sciences, law, or theology, has been honored with the 2024 Holberg Prize. The University of Witwatersrand highlights this award as one of the most prestigious international accolades given annually to exceptional scholars in these disciplines.

Read full article here. @The University of Witwatersrand

The 2024 Holberg Prize awarded to Achille Mbembe

It's a great honour to congratulate Prof. Achille Mbembe on receiving the esteemed Holberg Prize

This accolade celebrates not just his intellectual rigour but also the profound influence he has across the global academic community

Congratulations on this deserved recognition!

Read Holberg Prize article here

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

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

Mapping democratic decline, imagining democratic futures | 14-16 Feb | Pretoria

Friday, 16 February, 2024 - 23:00

Dear Colleagues – I hope this finds you all very well.

WISER | African Trust Infrastructures | Part-time Doctoral Applications

Thursday, 1 February, 2024 - 00:00

Over the last twenty years WiSER has established itself as the leading interdisciplinary research

Advertisement: WISER Directorship

Friday, 29 September, 2023 - 12:00

[Please follow the application procedure and criteria as described on the official univer

Appointment | Researcher | Trust Infrastructures

Friday, 21 July, 2023 - 00:00

WISER seeks to appoint a Researcher on a three year contract renewable

African Trust Infrastructures : Call for Doctoral Fellowship Applications

Friday, 20 January, 2023 - 18:00

Over the last twenty years WiSER has established itself as the leading interdisciplinary research

Vampires: Pandemics & Politics

Wednesday, 8 June, 2022 - 00:00

School for Human Rights and the Environment

Tuesday, 28 June, 2022 - 17:00

The Summer/Winter School will take place entirely online and is open and free to anyone who wants

New WiSER Research Platform

Thursday, 19 May, 2022 - 16:00

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.

The 100-year-old story of South Africa’s first history book in the isiZulu language

This year marks the centenary of the publication in 1922 of Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona (The Black People and Whence They Came), the first book-length history of black people written in isiZulu. Part of the Nguni language group, there are an estimated 12 million isiZulu speakers in South Africa.

Its author was Magema Fuze, now seen as a major figure in the body of writings produced in African languages in South Africa, but one who remains too little known outside narrow scholarly circles.

Improvising the future of decolonised jazz 

Gwen Ansell | Improvising the future of decolonised jazz 

WiSER’s Director Sarah Nuttall and Hlonipha Mokoena in New Frame on jazz, music and the university ‘after decolonization’.

https://www.newframe.com/improvising-the-future-of-decolonised-jazz/

The Weight in the Air

Tuesday, 22 March, 2022 - 17:00

Remembering Magema Fuze on the centenary anniversary of the publication of Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona

Sihle Zikalala | Remembering Magema Fuze on the centenary anniversary of the publication of Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona

"Undoubtedly, this text is a piece of important history, and thanks to leading Fuze scholar, Professor Hlonipha Mokoena, and the UKZN Press among others, the book will be republished sometime this year."

Read more here.

The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | WISER’s 20th anniversary | Part 2

Thursday, 23 September, 2021 - 14:00
Today we release the second podcast marking WiSER’s 20th anniversary.

INVITE | Book Launch and Discussion | DREAD by David Theo Goldberg | 29 Sept | 6pm (SA time)

Wednesday, 29 September, 2021 - 18:00

WiSER invites you to the launch of D R E A D Facing Futureless Futures

Joy Symposium | 1st and 2nd September

Wednesday, 1 September, 2021 - 11:30

Enhancing health-related remittances to Zimbabwe through digital

Enhancing health-related remittances to Zimbabwe through digital technology
 

Ndabatisa malayitsha mapiritsi amai eBP” (I gave malayitsha the BP tablets for mother). “I will send [the groceries] with malayitsha at the end of the month.” “Is your malayitsha reliable, I want to send my things home?” “How much does [the] malayitsha charge [to carry] one thousand rands?” “Did malayitsha deliver all the things I sent?”

Other Lives of the Image

Other Lives of the Image

PATRICIA HAYES AND IONA GILBURT
Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
 

Retakes in Liquid Time*
In the wake of intensifying debates on decolonisation and restitution in Africa and
its francophone diaspora, a Facebook posting of 6 February 2020 gave an other life

to a photographic portrait of the French-Italian explorer Savorgnan de Brazza taken in 1882.

Of Sky, Water and Skin: Photographs from a Zanzibari Darkroom

Of Sky, Water and Skin: Photographs from a
Zanzibari Darkroom
- Pamila Gupta

Ways of Seeing Wetness

Wasafiri - Professor Pamila Gupta

Hamwe Announces its first Board of Advisors

‘Hamwe Festival is a wonderful initiative.’ We are thrilled to welcome WiSER’s Prof. Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, a prominent medical anthropologist, on our first Board of Advisors, who will play a critical role in the growth and impact of #HamweFestival.

More info here.

Can high-level meetings and summits build trust and change a historically complex set of relationships between France and post-colonial African nations?

Can high-level meetings and summits build trust and change a historically complex set of relationships between France and post-colonial African nations?

French president Emmanuel Macron visited Rwanda on 27 May, the first such trip for France’s head of state since Nicolas Sarkozy over 10 years ago. This was a highly anticipated visit aimed at normalising relations between the two countries, which have been tense over conflicting narratives about France’s role during the 1994 genocide. 

Sharp Read | One Marechera, two points of view

The vastly different perspectives and treatments in two recent books about Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera leave the reader with tantalising questions beyond the subject matter.

My first encounter with Dambudzo Marechera is at assembly at an out-of-the-way rural boarding school. I was twelve. At this point I don’t know his story or reputations. His gender is fluid. For a while he stayed a woman in my imagination. He is not a man. Androgynous. – Tinashe Mushakavanhu   

2021 Africa Day Celebration

Tuesday, 25 May, 2021 - 09:00

2021 Africa Day Celebration

 

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