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My project involves writing a song cycle to form the basis of an opera, Where Does The Air Go?. The opera is a long-term project, an all-women’s opera that I am curating with collaborators from the...
The law of unjustified enrichment is about achieving corrective justice, and the aim of my project is about developing a more perfect way of attaining this goal by investigating the phenomenon of enrichment...
The evolution of individuality was first systematically addressed in a very influential book by Leo Buss in 1987. In this book he developed the concept that evolutionary innovations in replicator hierarchies...
This is a book-length biography of Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela (b. 1964) and situates her life and writing within three broad contexts. First, it centers Aboulela’s experiences as a migrant Muslim...
Modern medicine aims to improve our current abilities to diagnose and treat human diseases via a more personal health assessment. The success stories have created a moment to convert healthcare processes,...
This project seeks new critical and creative perspectives on the planetary crisis in forms of storytelling from the global South and the southern hemisphere that address the oceanic and hydrological effects...
The Martyr traces the story of Omar, a young Kenyan man and a talented sculptor who joins the Al-Shabaab after being innocently arrested in a police swoop and locked up for two years. This project will...
Many parts of Africa are today not connected to an electricity grid. Both, centralized energy systems with extended energy distribution networks, which are common in other parts of the world, and decentralized...
Gold dominated South Africa for a century. Hundreds of thousands of people from across Southern Africa laboured in the bowels of the earth to extract it, recruited through an extensive, highly organised...
Surprisingly little is known about how the South African publishing industry has operated over the past 35 politically tumultuous years. Yet the value of publishing as a cultural benefit and an adjunct...
In ‘urban studies’, a varied area of research that crosses over many disciplines, two contemporary areas of focus that attract much attention are ‘southern urbanism’; and comparison of cities....
I have conceptualized a work encompassing four distinct yet related books, each around 150 pages long, tentatively entitled the “Genocide and Hope Quartet”, and comprised of the following parts: Dandi;...