Projects

During this last half century of global expansion in higher education, attention focused on the population of “first-generation students”: those whose parents had not been to university. But this concept...

The resurgence of race in genomic research has renewed longstanding debates about the biological basis of human difference, raising urgent ethical questions about how science reanimates and recodes the...

Positioned as fathers of Pan-Africanism on the continent, and hailed as heroes in the 21st century Nyerere and Nkrumah are two of the most highly regarded leaders of the independence era. African Studies...

The recent history of infectious diseases has shown that the number of epidemics and pandemics resul2ng from spillovers of animal viruses to humans is increasing. There is consensus that some of this increase...

West African Pidgin (“Pidgin”) is a group of related, mutually intelligible varieties that emerged from contact between English and African languages in coastal West Africa. Spoken by only a few thousand...

Our project joins sociolinguistics, philosophy of science, and research ethics in an extensive and close collaboration to explore the conditions of integrity in politically engaged scholarship. The framework...

The project proposes to study and bring attention to contemporary moral economies in African Muslim societies that are overlooked. These include charitable programmes in Durban, South Africa, public endowments...

Mental illness leads to great suffering for affected individuals and is one of societies’ largest challenges. Despite numerous studies of risk and protective factors, very few studies have used naturalistic...

Insects are by far the most successful and diverse group of animals on the planet. They include over 1 million described species, and taxonomists estimate that there are between 2 and 30 million species...

The project is structured around the following major hypotheses: 1. Relying on the Deleuzian adaptation of classical Greek thought, it can be surmised that the Russian foreign policy discourse tends to...

Critical raw materials (CRMs) are increasingly vital to contemporary economies and societies. Their role is fundamental in (i) a wide range of modern technologies, including those enabling the dual (digital...

Since the publication of his landmark book, African Philosophy: Myth and Reality (1976), Paulin Jidenu Hountondji (1942-2024) has become one of the most important names in modern African philosophy....