Upcoming Relevant Events
There are several exciting upcoming events that we’d like to bring to your attention. For the full listings, please check out the calendar section here. If you have relevant events that […]
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Public Forum at Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations on Preventing Violence and Sustaining Peace: Global Interventions – Lessons/Implications for Kenya
By: Huguette Kazeneza and Gerald Acho of HIPSIR
The CIHA Blog is dedicated to bringing to the fore public debates and scholarship from different parts of Africa that are important for […]
Coping
Coping, directed by Ghanaian film maker Edem Dotse, is a short film that looks at issues of mental health from the perspective of the mentally challenged. In this award-winning film, […]
CODESRIA Day Lecture: The Struggles for Epistemic Freedom in Africa
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) was established in 1973 as an independent pan-African research organisation primarily focusing on social sciences research in […]
Zimbabwean Self-Understanding as Expressed through Song: An Interview with Mhoze Chikowero – Part II
In the first part of the interview with Professor Mhoze Chikowero (Department of History, UC Santa Barbara), he gestured at the usefulness of an “acoustemological perspective” in the reading […]
Zimbabwean Self-Understanding as Expressed through Song: An Interview with Mhoze Chikowero – Part I
On 15 November 2017, in the wake of over a year of protests against his government, Mugabe was placed under house arrest by the country’s national army in a coup d’état. On 19 November 2017, he was […]
Upcoming Opportunities: February 2018
There are several exciting calls for proposals/applications/nominations with upcoming deadlines that we’d like to bring to your attention. For more details and the full listing of many more interesting opportunities, […]
Zanele Muholi: Queering the Photographic Archive
Late last year, the CIHA Blog discussed an upcoming visit to New York by Zanele Muholi, a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video and installation. […]
“Supermarket Religion”
By: Professor Gerald West (Ujamaa Centre, University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Following allegations of abuse of their members by some churches, the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, […]