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November 21, 2025UP EXPERT OPINION: Africa has a debt crisis: momentum from G20 in South Africa can help find solutions
This article was first published by The Conversation Africa on 16 November 2025. The end of South Africa’s G20 presidency does not mean the end of its ability...
November 20, 2025IN THE MEDIA: Professor Daniel Bradlow Reflects on South Africa’s G20
In the lead-up to the 2025 G20 Leaders’ Summit, Professor Daniel Bradlow, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, has been a...
November 19, 2025Professor Adekeye Adebajo at the 2025 Open Book Festival
Professor Adekeye Adebajo, a distinguished scholar, author, and advocate for pan-African thought, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the...
November 19, 2025UP EXPERT OPINION: Francis Deng: Shaping Global Human Security Norms
This article was first published by Business Day South Africa on 17 November 2025. Sudanese scholar-diplomat is known as the intellectual father of the...
November 07, 2025Professor Adekeye Adebajo shortlisted for South African Literature Award
\u00a0 The Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship congratulates Professor Adekeye Adebajo, a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre, on being shortlisted for...
October 30, 2025UP EXPERT OPINION: Do or Die for the United Nations
This article was first published by the Project Syndicate on 29 September 2025. With US President Donald Trump blithely brushing aside the United Nations’ many...