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Researchers during lockdown (6)
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....
Lancement de la revue interdisciplinaire Sources. Matériaux et terrains en études africaines
A New Interdisciplinary Journal: Sources. Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies La nouvelle revue interdisciplinaire Sources. Matériaux et terrains en études africaines vient de voir le jour, avec la mise en ligne de son premier numéro en open access. Fruit des efforts conjugués des Instituts français de recherche en Afrique subsaharienne (CEDEJ-Khartoum, IFRA-Nairobi, IFAS-Recherche,...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (13)
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...
Researchers during lockdown (5)
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...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (12)
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...
Researchers during lockdown (4)
Antonio Polo Monzo is currently a PhD student in Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His doctoral thesis deals with the construction of political counter-discourse in contemporary Angolan music and artistic creation. He specifically focusses on the making of a new “angolanity” by...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (11)
Poverty and pandemic in South Africa Economists have begun to evaluate the economic consequences of Covid-19 already present in South Africa, and to analyse those that will be most likely in the near future. Although it is still early, in the midst of the crisis, to assess how the situation...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (10)
We would like to draw your attention to this site, which brings together a wide range of helpful ressources, articles, and forums on Covid-19 in Africa: University World News An interesting contribution on the role of social sciences in solving the crisis can be found here.
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (9)
How a People’s Science Helped End an Epidemic is the title of a recent book dedicated to the role played by social scientists in the fight against the last great epidemic in Africa. Leslie Bank, a professor of social anthropology at Walter Sisulu University (Mthatha, South Africa), supports the idea that...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (8)
Since the beginning of the epidemic, implementing lockdown and ‘social distancing’ seems to be a real challenge in the economic and social context of South African townships. The outright imitation of measures taken elsewhere (China, Korea, European countries…) raises insoluble problems in the country’s poorest neighbourhoods. Godfrey Maringira pleads for...