Projects

Alkebulan: The Return of the Leopard is set in the formative phases of the African Federation made up of the continent and its diasporas – Caribbean Africa, European Africa, N. American Africa, Middle...

Ending poverty has been the world’s priority for decades. It is multi-facetted and driven by its twin partner, inequality. It impacts all spheres of human wellbeing and nature. Poor people are proportionally...

To secure access to food for the growing world population, significant increases in agricultural productivity are needed. One avenue to address this challenge is a more efficient use of agrochemicals....

Evolutionary ecology theory applies principles of biological evolution to explain variation in how living creatures appear and behave. For example, how many sons versus daughter should a mother produce?...

This project analyzes the presence and impacts of West African migrants in urban spaces in North Africa and Southern Europe: how the sociopolitical contexts they enter shape their lives and livelihoods...

Water is critical for human existence and all life as we know it. This project investigates how pressures of climate change and human land- and water-use developments combine to impact freshwater flow,...

Whilst most decolonial scholars have made important contributions on the nature of coloniality as an intellectual problem and the need to decolonise, the practical deployment of decolonial programme is...

Zionism does not only colonize space; it also colonizes time. Likewise, its great adversary, the Palestinian freedom movement, is not just a struggle to regain home and hearth; it is a struggle to liberate...

An artist is trained to be visually aware. The Afrikaans word raaksien also signifies beyond suggesting a keen eye to the essential role of a visual artist’s manner of looking, to reveal the truth of...

Worldwide, at least 2.2 billion people live with visual impairment and there is a huge need for these cases to be addressed or prevented. In order to implement as good global and relevant rehabilitation...

The #JustAndEquitableNow team reflects on what it means to make, teach, and research the arts when communities are protesting against longstanding injustices and demanding better futures. The project team...

The Indian Ocean has been called the “ocean of the South”, as well as the “ocean of the future”. It is largely conceived as a sociopolitical space, with its long history of monsoon-enabled South-South...