How NIH Funding Works − Until It’s Gone
In its first 100 days, the Trump administration terminated more than US$2 billion in federal grants, according to a public source database […]
‘Old Bones in Boxes’: Lessons On Race and Physical Anthropology
The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. In this […]
Social Scientists in the Time of COVID-19: The South African Experience
It is the role of the social sciences and the humanities, on the basis of evidence, to affirm where official policy is in the public interest, but also to point to where it is not.
View From South Africa: Complexity Theory and University Leadership
Cyrill Walters investigated the current styles of leadership in South African higher education institutions and has developed a model of the primary competencies leaders need.
Bill Freund, 1944-2020: Inquisitive and Elegant Scholar on African Historiography
University of KwaZulu-Natal Professor Emeritus William Mark Freund, the economic, social, political, and development historian, died suddenly at his home in Durban, […]
University Decolonization: More Than Mere Iconoclasm
The decolonization debate in African universities raises critical issues about the relationship between power, knowledge and learning, argues Ahmed Essop. It also provides an opportunity to rethink the role of universities in social and economic development and in fashioning a common nation.
Big Shoes and Little Feet: Leadership in South Africa
African governance guru Robert Rotberg is visiting South Africa and Zimbabwe, suggesting a prescription for leadership that tries to recapture some of the benefits of the fading Mandela moment.
Your Food, Your Planet: Time to Take Action
If you haven’t yet seen the “Story of Agriculture and Climate Change: The Road We’ve Traveled” Oxfam infographic, take a look here, […]
Academy of Management Africa Conference
Join the Academy of Management on January 7-10, 2013 for their Africa Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Gordon Institute of Business […]
