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HUMA – the Institute for Humanities in Africa – is a global initiative at the University of Cape Town (UCT), intended to create a dynamic interdisciplinary community for scholars and students in the humanities at large.

14/09/2026

Join us for the official launch of The Africa Charter Forum!

The Africa Charter Inaugural Forum is coming soon and open to signatories and all those interested in the charter and mission.

⏰ Thursday, 1 October 2026 | 14.00 - 17.30
📍University of Cape Town, Main Campus OR Online

All are invited to consider the potential of the Africa Charter's transformative agenda in the rapidly evolving global landscape. The forum will also include the launch of the official Africa Charter website and will be followed by an evening reception.

Follow The Africa Charter page for more updates!

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University of Cape Town Unisa - The University of South Africa University of Bristol

04/06/2026

🎉Upcoming: Lecture at Unisa - The University of South Africa by Director Assoc. Prof Divine Fuh on "The Time of the Macabre: Notes on Technology and the Re-Spectularity of Violence"

📆 22 June | 09.30 - 13.00
📍Kgorong Function Hall | Unisa - The University of South Africa Main Campus, Pretoria

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01/06/2026

What does meaningful decolonial reform look like in higher education?

Join Prof. Shose Kessi, Dean of UCT Faculty of Humanities, for a hybrid seminar hosted by Perivoli Africa Research Centre (PARC) on | The Decolonial Turn at UCT: Resistance and Reform |

This talk will both recount and critically examine my experience of decolonial reform at the University of Cape Town (UCT), focusing on my experience of leadership at UCT first as Chair of the UCT Black Academic Caucus (BAC) and then as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities with multiple tasks of undoing the past, upholding the new, and building a legacy for future generations of scholars. I will discuss how colonial relations of power circulate in the daily realities of staff and students and the complex ways in which they are upheld, resisted, hidden, and reproduced; with particular reference to the circumstances surrounding the calls to decolonize the university emerging from the Rhodes Must Fall student protests in 2015. I conclude with a theory of change framework for higher education institutions.

📅 3 June 2026 | 🕐 13:00 BST
📍 University of Bristol | Online

Register for the seminar here: https://parc.bristol.ac.uk/event/parc-seminar-4-tbc-dr-shose-kessi/

24/05/2026

We are pleased to invite you to an interdisciplinary workshop “On Theory” hosted jointly by the Researcher Development Academy (RDA) and HUMA-Institute for Humanities in Africa at University of Cape Town, featuring Professor Saleem Badat – one of South Africa’s most distinguished public intellectuals.

Prof. Badat brings a deeply interdisciplinary perspective to working with theory, given his background in higher education grounded in critical sociology. Prof. Badat is the founding CEO of the Council on Higher Education and a former Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University.

⏰ Wed, 10 June 2026 | 2 pm - 5 pm
Venue: HUMA Seminar Room, Humanities Building, Upper
Campus, UCT Faculty of Humanities

This is a three-hour in-person workshop.
For Postdoctoral Research Fellows, PhD and Master’s students.
🟥 Please RSVP via https://conference.uct.ac.za/event/16918635

Inquiries: [email protected]

06/05/2026

💡Upcoming Address

HUMA Director Divine Fuh will deliver the keynote address at the Uppsala Africa Days 2026 Conference. | "From Partnerships to Collaborations: Repairing the Broken Global Ecosystem"

⏰Thursday, 21st May 2026 | 10:30-11:15 CEST

For more information: https://nai.uu.se/africadays

Uppsala University
The Nordic Africa Institute
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
UCT Faculty of Humanities

30/04/2026

Congratulations to HUMA-Institute for Humanities in Africa Academic Board Chair Prof. Francis Nyamnjoh, for being elected as a Fellow of The International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities (CORE Academy) 🎉

Professor Nyamnjoh is part of 23 distinguished scholars added to the prestigious fellowship, which currently includes more than 250 elected Fellows and more than 600 members across more than 60 countries and regions.

His election as a Fellow is a recognition of his distinguished scholarship in African studies and social anthropology, and his significant work on media, mobility, citizenship, identity, belonging, decolonisation, , and the social imagination in Africa.

Read the full announcement: https://coreacad.org/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=256

21/04/2026

Don't miss this conversation ⚫ Africa as Theory: The Imperative | L'Afrique comme cadre théorique: L'impératif Decolonial | with Associate Professor Divine Fuh, Guy Marius Sagna, Professor Cheikh Thiam and Dr. Papa Abdoulaye Diop.

April 25th 2026 | Musée des Civilisations noires in Dakar,

⏰ 10.00 AM - Free entry
📹 Watch it live (Scan the QR Code)

Open Society Foundations Amherst College Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar UCT Faculty of Humanities

14/04/2026

🌟 Pan African Fellowship Programme Seminar Series | Fellow Seminar with Adeyoola Ojemola (Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria) on | in Tunde Kelani's Films

⏰ 15 April - 10AM GMT
🔗 for inquiries and participation: [email protected]

Adeyoola Ojemola is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Mass Communication and works as a lecturer at Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Nigeria, where she resides.

She is a Nigerian with keen research interests in film, media, and cultural studies. Her PhD research, titled in Tunde Kelani's Films, focuses on how ecological messages are embedded in African films, particularly Yoruba cultural narratives, and how film audiences receive and connect with these messages. Beyond her doctoral research, her current research interests focus on how environmental literacy and education can be further facilitated through film for environmental sustainability among Nigerian youths.

She is a fellow and recipient of the Ife Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS) 2025 Small Grant Award, a Junior Research Institute (JRI) Scholar (2025) of LASPAD, Senegal, and a scholar of the Leaders of Africa Institute. She has published in the areas of African cinema and media studies, political communication and youth participation in Nigeria, gender and socio-cultural discourse in film, and media ethics and social responsibility, amongst others.

University of Ibadan African Studies Association of Africa

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Cape Town
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