Projects

Obesity is a medical condition defined as the excessive accumulation of fat that presents a risk to human health. Health hazards associated with obesity include heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Worldwide...

Plant biodiversity is essential to the survival of the human being and the whole biosphere. Unfortunately, plant species such as multipurpose woody species are subjected to diverse threats, amongst them...

The proposed research will investigate the political role of the military in securing democratic gains in Zambia and Malawi. First, the research will examine the role that soldiers in both countries played...

Malaria remains a significant public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Currently, all intervention tools such as diagnostic, treatment, and vector control are impeded by increasing concern of...

The proposed study is a book length project on the ideologies that underpin discourses of resistance to the militarisation of relations between African countries and Western imperialists. The aim of the...

This project investigates the mobilities of black women in Southern Africa. Much of the historiography about migration has centered the experiences of men as migrant workers leaving their homes to work...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide including South Africa. Chemotherapy remains the main method of cancer treatment. Despite advances in chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer, costs,...

Emotion is part of history, in the way we live, and experience it. However in the school subject this is often overlooked in favour of an “objective” approach. In recent decades literature on history...

The proposed project seeks to explore how retraction and recantation take shape in experimental writing of the 20th and 21st Century. Its guiding motif is the palinode: a literary-philosophical form used...

While studies in the global North have focused on ‘green gentrification’ driven by park developments and eco-friendly initiatives, a different phenomenon is unfolding in rapidly urbanizing African...

The project intends to develop sustainable construction materials from waste like recycled plastics and natural fibers, reducing negative environmental impacts and promoting resource efficiency. The utilization...

Human-caused changes are affecting the environment in ways that challenge many organisms, including parasites. Many of these parasites are exposed to the environment (as environmental or “off-host”...