Blind or visually impaired people (BVIP) are increasingly encountering difficulties in their daily lives. The urban congestion of our cities makes it even more difficult for them to get around. Existing...
We have entered a moment of profound challenge for open societies. Inequality – within and across states in the global South and the global North – is at record, and unsustainable, levels. Workers...
The proposed project investigates the sacred landscapes of the southern arid margins of the Levant (now southern Jordan/Israel), as observed by the spatial distribution and the material culture of the...
Several studies reported that bacterial co-infections have been considered an important contributor to morbidity and mortality of COVID-19. Indeed, in the absence of biological laboratory diagnoses of...
The proposed project builds on some of my earlier work on music and violence, and is born of the politico-ethical imperative to break the silence surrounding structural violence and abuse in institutionalised...
This project aims to explore ideas surrounding water within the musical world of eSwatini. As a country plagued by severe and regular drought and as southern African moves permanently into a state of water...
My project investigates black archives of Atlantic worlds as praxis and method, with a particular focus on sonic aspects. In foregrounding the black sonic, I seek to expand narrow confines of the black...
The place of fans in the sustenance of superstar visibility and the accompanying digital narratives of fandom have been understudied in Nigerian hip-hop. In this study, I engage the intersection of artiste...
Informal settlements (slums) are rapidly growing in the developing world. Teenage parenthood is a key feature in such settlements. The high prevalence of adolescent parenthood in Uganda is worrying and...
This proposed study, which is an extension of my current research, sets out to examine the representations of the chitenje (a wrap-around cloth) in Malawian popular arts, as a site for examining how questions...
Blind or visually impaired people (BVIP) are increasingly encountering difficulties in their daily lives. The urban congestion of our cities makes it even more difficult for them to get around. Existing...
Parity-time (PT) symmetry has attracted a lot of attention in many fields of physics in recent years. Its application is hindered by the stringent requirements on coherent gain balanced with loss.The transition...