UFS Centre for Gender and Africa Studies

12/05/2026

Africa Dialogue Series is pleased to present Dr John Endres who will give a talk titled
"taking the brakes off South Africa's economy: The IRR Blueprint for growth".
Date: 13 May
Time: 10:00
Venue: FGG 201, UFS and MsTeams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/385816792217596?p=Qzc2EmsxvhB2nG9oeh

05/05/2026

The Centre for Gender and Africa Studies is proud to present the annual Africa Day Memorial Lecture.

This lecture reconsiders Africa day not only as a commemoration of political independence. but as a moment of reckoning with African histories of power that colonial narratives have struggled to remember. Centering gender as an African political archive rather than a social add-on, the lecture traces how authority, legitimacy, and personhood have been exercised, contested, and disciplined across time.

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25/11/2025

The Center for Gender and Africa Studies invites you to join the Africa Dialogue series on the 27th of November at 12:00 till 15:30 on microsoft teams titled "Reflecting on reflexivity: a feminist perspective" presented by Prof Heidi Hudson.

For more info contact [email protected]

14/11/2025

Please listen to the radio interview of our senior professor, Prof Solomon Kaya 959 with the radio host, Ms Phemelo Motene. Let us know what you think.

Trump’s false “Christian genocide” claims in Nigeria

US President Donald Trump is under fire for spreading a myth about a “Christian genocide” in Nigeria. The claim, amplified by US conservatives like Senator Ted Cruz, distorts a complex reality of extremist violence rooted in politics, inequality and history, not religion alone. Senior Professor ...

12/11/2025

Please read the article written by our senior professor, Prof Solomon, titled 'The myth of a Christian genocide in Nigeria' here

The US should do its own homework and listen to what Nigerians are saying themselves about the jihadist violence.

10/11/2025

See the CGAS senior professor, Prof Hussein Solomon at the 46th Hoernle lecture to the Institute of Race relations on the 7th Of November, 2025.

Read about the lecture here: https://dailyfriend.co.za/2025/11/07/embracing-machiavelli-to-achieve-a-liberal-future/

31/10/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKxWLzrkxdM

Watch Dr Moorosi Leshoele, the CGAS Africa Studies program director talk more on Thomas Sankara at the Moya Political podcast with Ntsiki Mazwai.

Moya is a dignified platform for African healers and scholars to unpack the natural sciences and history. In this episode, we sit down with Dr Moorosi Leshoe...

31/10/2025

The Center for Gender and Africa Studies invites you to join the Africa Dialogue series on the 4th of November at 12:00 till 15:30 on microsoft teams titled "Speaking through silences: understanding qualitative methodologies in fieldwork..."

For more info contact [email protected]

15/09/2025

The Centre for Gender and Africa Studies would like to invite you to attend a seminar/webinar presented by Dr Debjyoti Ghosh, titled "documenting decriminalisation".
Date: 18 September 2025
Venue: FGG 201 and Microsoft Teams
Time: 09:00am

If you will be joining in person, kindly rsvp to Portia Gailele or if you you would like to request the Microsoft Teams link contact [email protected] or call 0514013121

10/09/2025

The Centre for Gender and Africa Studies together with the Miranda House (university of Delhi) would like to invite you to join us on MicroSoft Teams for the Africa dialogue series.
Title: Application of Mixed Methods in health Research
Speaker: Prof indranil (OP jindal Global university