Projects

This project enables the completion of ongoing research that explores knowledge systems in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean islands. Through the completion of a monograph of the same (provisional) title,...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) intervened in Kenya after the disputed 2007/8 election that led to displacement of more than 650,000 people and death of 1133 lives according to the post–election...

In (Black Afrikaans poet) Ronelda Kamfer’s collection Chinatown (2019), she criticises canonical Afrikaans white women poets for their implied complicity with apartheid and continued white hegemony within...

Metal bioavailability-based approaches are used to predict the bioavailability of metals in surface waters and toxicity to aquatic organisms. Over the years, several bioavailability-based models have been...

Innovations in biological evolution and in human culture  – from science to the arts – arise by processes with multiple parallels. One of them is that many innovations originate as ‘sleeping beauties’,...

Orthogonal polynomials appear in many areas of applied mathematics and in particular in numerical analysis. Within machine learning and optimization, typically, they provide natural basis functions that...

Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem which affects both developing and developed nations. However, the mandate for international measure enforcements are limited. Significant number of bacteria...

In Benin, the preliminary studies showed that the leafy vegetables produced in southern Benin were contaminated with C. jejuni and C. coli and that the origin of this contamination was the contaminated...

This project examines Akan and Yoruba epistemic virtue proverbs and theorises how they can be harnessed to transform knowledge and achieve epistemic decolonisation in Africa. Extant literature on decolonizing...

The health risks associated with the presence of toxic metals in water require the use of highly selective and sensitive techniques for accurately monitoring their presence and removing them to ensure...

Building on previous research on accelerated change and globalisation and on similarities between biological and cultural processes, this research project studies the ways in which global modernity reduces...

The Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture (2019) argued that ‘land reform must be oriented around growing the agricultural sector to foster economic development, and not purely be...