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Founded in 1904, Rhodes University is a well-established University located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
It is a small research intensive university which enjoys the distinction of having amongst the best undergraduate pass and graduation rates in South Africa, outstanding postgraduate success rates, and the best research output per academic staff member.
The University takes pride in its motto, Where Leaders Learn, and in producing graduates who are knowledgeable intellectuals, skilled professionals, and critical, caring and compassionate citizens who can contribute to economic and social development and an equitable, just and democratic society.
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How do elements of Fela Kuti’s music get reproduced by today’s pop musicians?
Informal workers, in particular women, took a big hit from the COVID-19 lockdown measures. A multi-faceted support package, informed by the gendered nature of work, is urgently called for.
For decades experts have puzzled over why most people claim to have privacy concerns, but few actually do enough about it.
An African literature lecturer shares how embodied teaching can help students feel that their lives and stories matter.
La literatura africana ha sido testigo de la proliferación de obras autobiográficas y de ficción que tratan las sexualidades queer.
Police officers are also not, and are not expected to be, sworn translators or interpreters. This has serious implications for justice.
Political and economic power-holders will strive for a return to pre-pandemic ‘normality’.
A new study evaluates what South African landowners who run trophy hunting operations would do in the event of a hunting ban.
A study of the late Keorapetse Kgositsile shows how the poet influenced black American culture. It also shows how his mother and his grandmother’s oral traditions in turn influenced him.
A devastating historical exposé of South Africa’s mining industry and the railway system that maximised the exploitation of cheap Mozambican labour.
Crime fiction is the second most popular literary genre in Africa after romance. A reading of Kenyan author Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ’s Black Star Nairobi reveals how it has disrupted the genre.
As the world deals with COVID-19, the sustainable use of wild species is a critical coping and resilience strategy.
Despite Nigeria’s draconian laws against homosexuality, authors like the award-winning Akwaekwe Emezi are important new voices that add complexity to the question of identity.
Research has shown that African immigrants in South Africa refrain from speaking their own languages and try to speak local languages to blend in.
A group of leading black, queer and feminist academics held a colloquium to reconsider a seminal blackness studies text – offering new ways of thinking about the decolonial project.
How do two artists from different ends of the world get inspired by the pioneer of Afrobeats?
South Africa is home to four other seahorse species, but this was the first time a pygmy seahorse had been observed in South Africa, let alone Africa.
There aren’t a lot of studies on South Africa’s cultural economy. A new one finds a cluster of creative firms in Cape Town with high levels of innovation.
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Research Associate, Rhodes University
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Marine biologist, Rhodes University
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Postdoctoral Fellow with the NRF/DST SARChI Chair Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme, Rhodes University
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Lecturer & MA Programme Coordinator, Rhodes University
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Professor of English, Rhodes University
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rhodes University
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Senior lecturer, Rhodes University
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Research Associate of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor of Environmental Anthropology, Rhodes University
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Director, Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics, Rhodes University
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Program Manager at Wildlife Conservation Society, Rhodes University
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PhD Candidate/Research & Teaching Assistant, Grenoble Ecole de Management/Lecturer in Organisational Psychology, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Rhodes University
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Politics lecturer, Rhodes University
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Lecturer in Sociology, Rhodes University
