CAS BLOG: Women, Power, and Land: Agrarian Feminism

Posted on July 18, 2024

In South Africa, the issue of gender equity, both in society and in agrarian relations, is founded on settler colonialism perpetuated through race, class, sexism, and patriarchy, among many other forms of discrimination and exclusion. Zakes Hlatswayo considers the disconnect between policy and...

UP EXPERT OPINION: Africa’s Hobbled Hegemons

Posted on July 17, 2024

In the face of regional turmoil, rising extremism, and heightened geopolitical tensions, Africa urgently needs strong leadership. But its two most significant regional powers, Nigeria and South Africa, are too constrained by domestic challenges to represent Africa’s interests effectively on...

CAS OPINION: Kenya protests show citizens don’t trust government with their tax money: can Ruto make a meaningful new deal?

Posted on July 16, 2024

Postdoctoral fellow with the Human Economy Programme, Dr Eric Magale, co-authors this article with Dr Mario Schmidt on the Kenyan protests against the new national finance policy in June 2024.

‘African languages must be integrated into the development of AI technology’ – expert during UP-hosted meeting of Design Justice AI Institute

Posted on July 10, 2024

UP recently hosted the Pretoria Design Justice AI Institute meting. The institute explores community-centred, humanistic and interdisciplinary engagement of generative AI.

EXPERT OPINION: Trump vs Biden sequel sets the bar very low

Posted on July 08, 2024

Professor Adekeye Adebajo reflects on how the US election is widely portrayed as a contest between a senile octogenarian and a criminal, hate-spewing lunatic in his latest article for Business Day South Africa.

CAS BLOG: Experiencing Perceived Malaria in Nairobi

Posted on July 04, 2024

Dr Agnetta Nyabundi, a postdoctoral fellow funded by the Mellon Foundation through the Urbanities Project at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, has contributed an opinion piece on "Experiencing Perceived Malaria in Nairobi".

UP EXPERT OPINION: The IMF is failing countries like Kenya: why, and what can be done about it

Posted on July 03, 2024

Professor Daniel Bradlow writes about why the IMF is failing countries like Kenya and what can be done about it for The Conversation Africa.

UP EXPERT OPINION: SA needs to embrace an African identity

Posted on June 20, 2024

"As SA’s political parties remain locked in talks to form a government of national unity, one issue that has been neglected is the battle to define the country’s foreign policy," writes Prof Adekeye Adebajo.