The Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship conducts transdisciplinary research on issues of "liveability" in South Africa, across the African continent, and beyond. Our aim is to advance socially engaged, cutting-edge research that transforms knowledge, makes an impact, and benefits individuals and communities.
Featured Projects
Exxaro Biography Project
Forced Migration In South Africa's Thirty Year War
July 04, 2024CAS BLOG: Experiencing Perceived Malaria in Nairobi
I always thought you have to travel outside Nairobi or get into contact with people outside Nairobi to get malaria - Mwende, Interviewed by Ann Soy for BBC...
July 03, 2024UP EXPERT OPINION: The IMF is failing countries like Kenya: why, and what can be done about it
The recent Kenyan protests are a warning that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is failing. The public does not think it is helping its member countries...
May 28, 2024EXPERT OPINION: Brigety should have called it a day after Lady R ‘misimpression’
The bow-tie wearing US ambassador to SA, Reuben Brigety, recently announced that Washington would not interfere in the May 29 SA elections: a curious statement...
May 14, 2024EXPERT OPINION: SA at 30 Years: Home and Abroad
SA recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of its first democratic election, which brought “founding father” and Nobel peace laureate Nelson Mandela to power...
May 08, 2024UP EXPERT OPINION: South Africa will be president of the G20 in 2025: two much-needed reforms it should drive
South Africa will play an important international role in 2025 as president of the G20. The G20 is a group of 19 countries as well as the African Union and the...
April 30, 2024EXPERT OPINION: Selwyn Cudjoe, the heir to CLR James
On a chilly spring day last week I arrived in the salubrious setting of Wellesley College in Massachusetts to honour towering Trinidadian pan-African scholar...