UFS Centre for Gender and Africa Studies

UFS Centre for Gender and Africa Studies

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We study Africa, its people, politics, culture and relations with the rest of the world by taking a long and critical view of past and present.

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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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]

Trump’s false “Christian genocide” claims in Nigeria 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

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 ...

The myth of a Christian genocide in Nigeria 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 myth of a Christian genocide in Nigeria The US should do its own homework and listen to what Nigerians are saying themselves about the jihadist violence.

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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]

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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

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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

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University Of The Free State Bloemfontein Campus 205 Nelson Mandela Avenue Senate Street North President Steyn Annex Rooms 303/317
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