Kafui Tsekpo is a Next Generation Social Science Doctoral Dissertation (Next Gen) Completion Fellow (2022), and currently a Research Associate at the African Leadership Centre (ALC). His research explores the dynamics between society and the state, focusing on how social and political actors’ interactions within the polity influence leadership, security, and development. Over the past […]
Garikai Chaunza is a Research Assistant at the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, with interests in Media Activism, Radio & Decolonisation, Media Traditions, Journalism Norms & Practices, and the Political Economy of Media. He holds a PhD in Journalism and Media Studies from Rhodes University, with his dissertation focusing on Activist Radio […]
Ghana faces yet another milestone in its democratic journey in December 2024, as the country heads to the polls to elect a new President and parliamentarians for the 275-member legislative chamber. This is the 9th successive general election since the country returned to democratic rule in 1992, with remarkable success translating into orderly transitions of […]
Dr. Keneuoe Thibello-Maphosa is a Mosotho. She acquired a PhD in Development Studies from the Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies from the University of Pretoria, in South Africa. Her research area was Migration, specifically the changes in migration trends (social mobility), and the main focus was Basotho Women’s informal cross-border traders with Botswana. […]
William Musamba (PhD, African History) is a lecturer at Uganda Martyrs University and Makerere University, Uganda. His research interests focus on the twentieth-century history of Busoga, eastern Uganda. His most recent work is “Record Keeping and Political Advocacy in Late Colonial Uganda: the case of Abataka Abasoga, Busoga, 1940 to 1950,” published by Social Dynamics, […]
INTRODUCTION Irregular migration in the Southern African region, particularly in the Limpopo Province between South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana, has assumed the dimension of a whole market economy that affects the entire population of settlements in both countries. The economy of irregular migration marks just one of the several issues and dynamics in the region. […]
