MEDIA: After a bumpy start, what does the rest of 2022 have in store for Africa?

Posted on February 10, 2022

On 9 February 2022, senior research fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship Professor Adekeye Adebajo was interviewed on Newzroom Afrika to provide an analysis of how challenges to Africa may unfold over the course of 2022.

UP EXPERT OPINION: Another year of staring down the barrel for Africa

Posted on February 09, 2022

In his second editorial of the year, Professor Adekeye Adebajo writes about the ongoing and new challenges to African countries in 2022.

UP EXPERT OPINION: Sidney Poitier was Hollywood’s first black superstar

Posted on January 25, 2022

“Even by the illusory standards of the fabled ‘American dream’, Sidney Poitier’s success was an improbable fairy tale,” writes Prof Adekeye Adebajo who has joined UP as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship.

Statement by Professor Tawana Kupe on the appointment of Professor Tinyiko Maluleke as Vice-Chancellor and Principal to TUT

Posted on December 09, 2021

Professor Tinyiko Maluleke will be leaving his position as Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship.

UP researchers celebrated at National Research Foundation Awards

Posted on November 04, 2021

“I wish to join in on congratulating all these hardworking individuals for their achievement, but also for using their research to contributions for the betterment of all,” said UP Vice-Chancellor Prof Tawana Kupe

REPORT: Summer Institute 2021 at the University of Pretoria

Posted on November 01, 2021

From 13 to 22 October 2021, the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship hosted a ten-day Summer Institute as part of the Mellon Foundation funded project "Entanglement, Mobility, and Improvisation: Culture and Arts in Contemporary African Urbanism and its Hinterlands".

‘They enabled us to conceive the inconceivable’ – panel member on Mandela and Maxeke during UP-hosted webinar

Posted on August 03, 2021

UP recently partnered with the Charlotte Maxeke Institute, the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture and the Nelson Mandela Foundation to host a discussion about the legacies of Charlotte Maxeke and Nelson Mandela.

UP-led project launches innovative fellowship to develop African food systems researchers

Posted on July 23, 2021

The Food Systems Research Network for Africa (FSNet-Africa) fellowship has officially launched, and 20 early-career researchers from six African countries joined their mentors from the UK and Africa in the first week of activities.