Essays

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) recognized the Dean of the School of Liberal and Performing Arts (SLPA), Dr. Pamela Khanakwa (APN IRG 2015), for outstanding academic leadership...

Biography Dr. Gerald Mandisodza is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Dullah Omar Institute, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa, where he recently completed his...

Introduction Global climate change poses a profound threat to the right to a clean and healthy environment, intensifying conflict, displacement, food insecurity, poverty, biodiversity loss, and ecological degradation. These negative...

“Obstacles to Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Challenges Seen Through a Sudanese Lens” offers a sustained and well-grounded interrogation and analysis of the structural, historical, and socio-economic constraints that continue to...

Introduction The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how we conduct research, write, and disseminate our findings.1 What is important to note from the outset is that artificial...

“In times of conflict, the loudest voices often drown out the most important ones, but what if true peace begins when those who suffered most get to tell their own...

The recent debate inside the European Parliament over past and ongoing atrocities in Sudan exposes a profound moral contradiction at the heart of contemporary European political discourse.

The phrase 'Home to Camp' is drawn directly from the testimonies of children and youth during research fieldwork conducted across Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in Northeast Ethiopia.

Transitional justice (TJ) has been hailed as Ethiopia’s long-awaited antidote for achieving the elusive quest for sustainable peace by addressing both old and current human rights violations. In the context...

One of the underlying forces shaping the United States’ interventionist discourses in Nigeria today is not intelligence, strategy, or local realities, but a haunted historical imaginary, featuring the Sokoto Caliphate...

In my research titled “Queering Terrorism”, published in the journal Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, I examined the sexual practices of terrorist groups such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State...

The launch of the SSRC African University Seminar Series in South Africa (AUSS-SA), which took place from the 18th to the 19th of September 2025 at the University of Witwatersrand...