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Collection Africae
À propos Africae publie des ouvrages académiques en sciences humaines et sociales sur l’Afrique qui éclairent les dynamiques politiques, économiques et sociales par le passé et dans le présent. Africae est la marque éditoriale représentant les publications en accès ouvert de l’Institut français de recherche en Afrique (IFRA) de Nairobi,...
Giulia Bonacci, Adrien Delmas & Kali Argyriadis (eds.), Cuba and Africa, 1959-1994, Wits University Press, 2020.
Cuba was a key participant in the struggle for the independence of African countries during the Cold War and the definitive ousting of colonialism from the continent. Beyond the military interventions that played a decisive role in shaping African political history, there were many-sided engagements between the island and the continent....
Soutenance de thèse – Antonio Polo Monzo
We are pleased to announce that Antonio Polo Monzo — a former IFAS-Reserach fellow — will defend his PhD thesis in anthropology about the expression of identity of young people in Luanda on December 14th at 2 pm at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). You can...
Soutenance de thèse – Brad Safarik
We are pleased to announce that Brad Safarik — a former IFAS-Research fellow — defends his PhD thesis on December 4th at Sciences Po Bordeaux. The thesis, entitled “Strategic Abandon: Angolan peasantry under MPLA domination”, focuses on rural development in Angola since its independence. English ABSTRACT Angola’s colonial past has...
Lesedi #23 – November 2020
Lesedi. Field notes #23 Lesedi, the online journal of IFAS-Research, is launching a new special issue of 80 pages focusing on rock art in southern Africa (“The Rock Art of the Hunter-Gatherers”). It contains 14 articles written by senior researchers, post-doctoral researchers and PhD students, presenting ongoing research, new fieldworks and collaborative...
Documentary film: “What am I going to eat tomorrow?” The impact of the 2020 pandemic on informal workers in Johannesburg
As part of its scientific and academic vocation, and in the context of the health crisis linked to the coronavirus, IFAS-Research has launched a collective research project with the aim of understanding the effects of the 2020 pandemic on informal workers in South Africa. To this end, in June 2020,...
Informality in Times of Covid-19 – The Impact of the 2020 Pandemic on Vulnerable Workers in South Africa
Journée d’étude/ Seminar November 19th, 2020 13:30 – 17:00 On the 19th of November, the French Institute will organise a seminar as part of the “Informality and Covid-19 in South Africa” project launched a few months ago by IFAS-Research. The main results of this research will be presented and discussed....
Lesedi #22 – November 2020
Lesedi. Field notes #22 Lesedi, the online journal of IFAS-Research, is launching a new special issue of a 100 pages on the actors of freshwater management in Southern Africa (Lesedi #22: Water actors in Southern Africa. Field surveys, interdisciplinarity and social issues). It contains 10 articles written by senior researchers, post-doctoral researchers and Ph.D....
Prix de Thèse « Afrique et ses diasporas »/ « Africa and its Diasporas » PhD Prize
Nous avons appris avec plaisir que Charlotte Grabli — allocataire de l’IFAS-Recherche en 2013 alors qu’elle était au tout début de sa recherche doctorale — venait de remporter le Prix de Thèse « Afrique et ses diasporas », décerné conjointement par la Société des Africanistes et par le GIS « Études...