Dr. Chaymaa Hassabo is a Research Associate at the Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg (UJ). She is a specialist of Egypt and wrote her doctoral thesis in political science about the transformations of the Mubarak authoritarian regime during the 2002-2010 period. Dr. Hassabo came to South Africa three years ago as a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre […]
IFAS-Research was very sad to hear of the passing of Bill Freund, Prof. emeritus at UKZN, on August 17th. Bill Freund was an authoritative scholar in the field of economic history, development economics and the history of labour, and the transformation of cities in Africa. Combining rigorous thinking with an encyclopedic knowledge of African history, […]
Encounters with Covid Exploring the theme of the pandemic through a series of podcasts and platforming experts’ and social scientists’ insights on the economic impact of Covid-19 in South Africa, this miniseries of 3 episodes is a collaborative project between Wits University Southern Center for Inequalities Studies (SCIS) and Rethinking Economics for Africa (REFA). Episode […]
African views on Covid-19. Call for papers (Deadline: July 20, 2020) African Views on Covid-19 is a title of a project book that aims to document the ways Africans have faced, or are still facing, the current health crisis, from the perspective of humanities and social sciences. This collective, multidisciplinary, bilingual (French and English) publication has […]
La toute nouvelle revue Sources. Matériaux & terrains en études africaines, interdisciplinaire, multilingue et en accès ouvert, est le fruit des efforts conjoints des UMIFRE sub-sahariennes (CEDEJ-Khartoum, IFRA-Nairobi, IFAS-Research, IFRA-Ibadan, CFEE, SFDAS), du laboratoire de recherche LAM (Les Afriques dans le monde), à Bordeaux, et d’une solide équipe internationale en Sciences Humaines et Sociales. Sources. Matériaux & Terrains en études africaines se donne une […]
A number of pandemics and epidemics have afflicted the African continent for centuries. Health historians have researched these issues belonging to the field of social and economic history. We have selected two papers focusing on the history of the plague in West Africa from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century and on the Spanish flu […]
Matthieu Rey is a Senior researcher in Modern History at the CNRS (Centre national de la Recherche scientifique — the main French Research agency). He is an historian whose research themes revolve around state-building and policymaking in the Middle East and in Southern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Affiliated to IFAS-Research and to […]
Africa, a relatively unscathed continent? While it is of course too early to celebrate victory, several researchers see signs of hope in the relatively low progression of the coronavirus on the African continent and, for those most affected such as South Africa, in the capacity to manage the health crisis with some effectiveness. Analyses explaining […]
Caio Simões de Araújo is Postdoctoral Researcher at Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA), Wits University. He shares his reflections on the lockdown in South Africa from Johannesburg. I work at the intersections of history and anthropology. Over the last few years, I have worked on the histories of late colonialism and decolonization in […]
Lockdown and food insecurity in South Africa This article by Jane Battersby highlights a crucial issue in times of lockdown: food supply. While the government has put in place relief measures to secure access to food for the most deprived (e. g. food distributions), the lockdown regulations have of course had a terrible impact on […]
