Browsing Research Publications (Centre for Humanities Research) by Subject "Africa"

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    • Africa’s living rivers: Managing for sustainability 

      King, Jackie; Brown, Cate (MIT Press, 2021)
      Africa’s human population is growing rapidly and is set to account for 40 percent of global numbers by 2100. Further development of its inland waters, to enhance water and energy security, is inevitable. Will it follow ...

    • Breaking the mold of disciplinary area studies 

      Lalu, Premesh (Indiana University Press, 2016)
      At the outset of an edited volume on Intellectuals and African Development, the question is posed about what went wrong.1 The call for self-reflection perhaps anticipates a further question—about how to account for the ...

    • Religious leaders as agents of Lgbtiq inclusion in east Africa 

      Van Klinken, Adriaan; Bompani, Barbara; Parsitau, Damaris (Oxford University Press, 2023)
      When Ugandan parliamentarians passed a new Anti-Homosexuality Bill in March 2023, they reportedly did so under pressure from, and with the enthusiastic support of, religious leaders.1 In other African countries, too, recent ...

    • The virtual stampede for Africa: Digitisation, postcoloniality and archives of the liberation struggles in Southern Africa 

      Lalu, Premesh (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2007)
      This article presents a polemical argument for a politics of digitisation that aims to politicise the archival disciplines while making sense of the conjuncture in which digitisation initiatives are mooted in Southern ...