Allocataires de l’IFAS-Recherche en 2025 | 2025 IFAS-Research grant recipients

 

Thématique 1 – Paléosciences | Theme 1 – Palaeosciences

  • Welcome Takunda Chigwende (University of the Witwatersrand) : “Later Stone Age painting technology at Pomongwe Cave, Matobo, Zimbabwe“
  • Precious Chiwara-Maenzanise (University of Cape Town) : “Changes in raw material selectivity through time: Contrasting Earlier and Middle Stone Age quartzite use strategies“
  • Henry Chiwaura (Mzuzu University) : “Mapping the Past: A Rock Art Survey and Documentation Project in Mzimba District, Malawi“
  • Iris Guillemard (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès) : “Mutations et continuité dans les productions matérielles des chasseurs-cueilleurs de la fin du Later Stone Age: Focus sur les assemblages lithiques du Drakensberg oriental | Changes and continuity in the material productions of hunter-gatherers at the end of the Late Stone Age : Focus on the lithic assemblages of the Eastern Drakensberg” – Aide à la mobilité
  • Pierre Linchamps (University of the Witwatersrand, Musée national d’Histoire naturelle) & Sitara Thé Chaver (University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal) : “Impact des populations du Later Stone Age sur les environnements forestiers équatoriaux du Kongo-Central : apports de la chirofaune“
  • Bacara Spruit (University of the Witwatersrand) : “Using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) and taphonomic analysis to infer subsistence behaviour at Boomplaas Cave from MIS 2 to 1“
  • Charlotte Theye (Université de Poitiers) : “Walking with our ancestors: how did locomotor behaviour influenced the brain of fossil hominins?“


Thématique 2 – Histoire, Histoire de l’art, Patrimoine | Theme 2 – History, Art History, Heritage

  • Blessing Dhliwayo (Stellenbosch University) : “State forest management, society, and environment in Eastern Highlands, Zimbabwe, c.1890- 2023“
  • Narciso Sabão Domingos (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès) : “Contributions d’Henri Breuil dans l’élaboration des séquences chronoculturelles préhistoriques en Afrique subsaharienne (1929-1952) | Henri Breuil’s contributions to the development of prehistoric chronocultural sequences in Sub-Saharan Africa (1929-1952)“
  • Curtis Kyle Jeaven (Sol Plaatje University) : “Rock art presentation and perception: A comparative analysis between uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa and the Vézère Valley, France“
  • Paulo Lopes Jose (Eduardo Mondlane University) : “Communities living inside the park or park established in community areas? Toward a historical understanding of the establishment of the Limpopo National Park“
  • Cézar Mahumane (Eduardo Mondlane University, University of Pretoria) : “Sea Paths: Visualising Underwater Cultural Heritage“
  • Carlington Marowa (Concordia University, Ghent University) : “Navigating Uncertainty: Urban Mobility and Commuter Adaptation to the Postcolonial Transport System in Harare, 1980-2025“
  • Kerry-Ieigh Paige Reddy (University of the Witwatersrand) : “Living heritage: variability in gazettement and safeguarding among South Africa’s Provinces“
  • Naomi Rio (Université de Hambourg) : “Project Coast, le programme d’armes chimiques et biologiques de l’Afrique du Sud de l’apartheid | Project Coast, the South African chemical and biological weapons program during apartheid“


Thématique 3 – Dynamiques contemporaines | Theme 3 – Contemporary dynamics

  • Nagayamma Tavares Aragão (Universidade Lusófona) : “Concepts and challenges for participatory governance in the (re)naturalisation of urban rivers in São Tomé and Luanda“
  • Ronald Bafana (University of Pretoria) : “Labour Exploitation at the Conservation-Extraction Nexus“
  • Jeanne Bouyat (Sciences Po Bordeaux) : “Policing Appearances in South African Schools. Contested democratisations, power relationships, and institutional change since the 1990s” – Aide à la mobilité
  • Collin Chikwira (Midlands State University Zimbabwe, University of Johannesburg) : “Integrating renewable energy and sustainable food systems: Examining the energy-food nexus for rural resilience in Zimbabwe“
  • Ajayi David (University of the Witwatersrand) : “Digital games as cultural artifacts: Analyzing the role of South African game design in cultural representation“
  • Rozenn Guérois (CNRS) : “SenaGram: Une grammaire multilectale du sena | SenaGram: A multilectal grammar of Sena“
  • Judith Hayem (Université de Lille), Barbara Morovich (IFRA-Nigéria), Noor Nieftagodien (University of the Witwatersrand) : “Des archives minoritaires : méthodes et objectifs. Conversations entre l’Afrique du Sud et le Nigéria | Minority archives: methods and objectives. Conversations between South Africa and Nigeria” – Call for events
  • Primrose Hove (University of Pretoria) : “Return migration and social security in Southern Africa: Experiences of returned Zimbabwean migrant mine-workers in Harare“
  • Saint José Camille Inaka (University of Pretoria) : “Migration and integration in the SADC region: Case of Congolese migrant returnees from South Africa“
  • Zaakir Jardine (University of the Western Cape) : “Exploring the link between climate change, internal migration and its effects on urban housing in Cape Town“
  • Hlolohelo Khamela (Stellenbosch University) : “Chinese investment and labour dynamics in the retail sector: The case of Maseru, 2000-2023“
  • Antoine Latarge (Université Savoie Mont-Blanc) : “Les espaces protégés de montagne en Afrique australe face aux projets d’extraction des minerais de la transition: processus de décarbonation et controverses socio-environnementales | Mountain protected areas in Southern Africa facing mining extraction projects of transition minerals: decarbonization processes and socio-environmental controversies” – Aide à la mobilité
  • Alizée Lazzarino (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) : “Les pratiques d’occupation informelles et solidaires dans le quartier : Une étude de la formation d’une identité citoyenne | Informal and solidarity-based occupation practices in the neighborhood: Study of the formation of a civic identity” – Aide à la mobilité
  • Julie Raviri (Aix-Marseille Université) : “De District Six à Mitchells Plain: Spatialité et identité(s) des Cape Coloureds en Afrique du Sud | From District Six to Mitchells Plain: Spatiality and identity(ies) of the Cape Coloureds in South Africa” – Aide à la mobilité
  • Line Relisieux (London School of Economics and Political Science) : “Navigating Gang-Present Communities: Narratives about Maternal Experiences on the Cape Flats“
  • Karabo-Maya Rodwell (University of the Witwatersrand) : “A play on worlds: how young performers in Maputo and Johannesburg are using theatre as a vehicle for memory making and a site for political activism“
  • Mathilde Rogez (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès) : “Entre transition politique et adaptation générique : les enjeux de la représentation de la réconciliation dans la littérature sud-africaine contemporaine | Between political transition and generic adaptation: representing reconciliation in contemporary South African literature“
  • Vasco Magona Sande (Eduardo Mondlane University) : “Linguistic pluricentrism: An inclusive or exclusive debate?“
  • Kristina Tobias (Stellenbosch University) : “Investigating the lived-language experiences and discursive practices of women migrants in multilingual Namibian formal workplaces“