Elands Bay Cave and the Stone Age of the Verlorenvlei, South Africa John Parkington, Guillaume Porraz (ed.) Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal Museum, 2016, 306p. Elands Bay Cave is a small coastal rock shelter formed in quartzite that contained up to ca. 3 m of anthropogenic and geogenic deposits with archaeological materials dating to the Middle Stone Age […]
Geoffroy Heimlich Cambridge, Archaeopress, collection Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 95, 2017, vol.1, 196 p. et vol.2, 512 p. À la différence des arts rupestres du Sahara ou d’Afrique australe, ceux d’Afrique centrale restent encore aujourd’hui largement méconnus. Bien que signalé dès le XVIe par Diego del Santissimo Sacramento, l’art rupestre du Kongo Central n’a […]
Sylvy Jaglin, Alain Dubresson Cape Town, UCT Press, 2016, 196 p. Africa’s leading producer of electricity, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, is also a vertically integrated monopoly owned by the South African state. Eskom was shaken in 2008, when it was obliged to introduce ‘load shedding’, or rolling blackouts, and again in late 2014 . Since […]
Raphaël Porteilla, Judith Hayem, Marianne Séverin, Pierre-Paul Dika (dir.) Paris, L’Harmattan, 2016, 355p. Les récents revers électoraux du Congrès national africain (ANC) signent comme la clôture d’un cycle, ouvert il y a un peu plus de vingt ans avec la fin de l’apartheid. Tirées d’un colloque pluridisciplinaire tenu à Dijon en 2014, les contributions permettent […]
These photos are part of Karen Lévy’s PhD research (LAVUE/Université Paris Nanterre/IFAS-Recherche): Une ville moyenne pour des classes moyennes ? Discours et acteurs de la fabrique urbaine. Une étude du cas de Johannesburg, un détour comparatif par New Delhi. The circulation of the urban model referred to as ‘gated communities’ challenges the understanding of contemporary […]
A public lecture by Adelphine Bonneau as part of the Public Lecture Series Rock Art & Symbolic Expression. A Southern Africa – France Dialogue. Thursday 6 December 2018 18.00 for 18.30 | Origins Centre Museum Wits University, West Campus, Corner of Yale Road & Enoch Sontonga Ave, Johannesburg > RSVP > Join the Facebook event The Later […]
Colloquium on the persistence of the past in the architecture and infrastructure of colonialism and apartheid Organised by the Wits History Workshop & the School of Architecture & Planning (University of the Witwatersrand) Supported by IFAS-Recherche In traversing the stubborn landscapes of colonialism and apartheid, we are confronted with the ambivalent ruins and seemingly innocuous […]
The mutation of a model from the upper class to the middle class Organised by Karen Lévy (Université Paris Nanterre) & Federica Duca (PARI) The circulation of the urban model referred to as gated communities contributes to the challenge of understanding contemporary urban spaces all over the world. The multiplication at big scale of low-cost […]
“Grey governance”, structuring inequalities and institutionalisation of cooperation on transboundary rivers in Southern Africa A seminar by Paul-Malo Winsback Chair: Magalie Bourblanc (GovInn / Ceepa / University of Pretoria/ CIRAD UMR G-EAU / Université de Montpellier) Discussant: Michela Marcatelli (Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies / University of Johannesburg) 1 Tuesday 6 November […]
Urban change and narratives of difference along a ‘Chinese’ street in suburban Johannesburg A joint seminar IFAS-Recherche / University of the Witwatersrand by Romain Dittgen & Gerald Chungu 1 Tuesday 6 November 2018 12:30 | African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) – University of the Witwatersrand ACMS Seminar Room 2163, South East Wing, Second […]
