Call of the wild collector
28 Aug 2020 Walking at ‘botanist pace’ on Mount Terror in South Africa, Dr Ángela Cano likes to stop and smell the succulents. She then measures, photographs...
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The Longing of Belonging: African photography on show at MAA
13 Jun 2017 A photography exhibition capturing the black South African Zionist community – the most popular religious denomination in the country – opens at the...
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Multiplier effect: the African PhD students who will grow African research
21 Feb 2017 Taskeen Adam and Richmond Juvenile Ehwi are part of a PhD programme that’s enrolling five African students per year for five years, to help train...
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Modern art’s missing chapter
25 Feb 2015 The artworks of black and indigenous peoples – a missing chapter in the history of modern art – is brought into sharp focus in a ‘revelatory’...
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Activist art reflects fight for rights of African AIDS sufferers
22 Jun 2012 A new exhibition launching at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores the psychology and politics of living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa...
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The emotional historian?
28 Feb 2012 Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, a Gates scholar with an interest in the emotional history of South Africa, explains why the study of society's sentiments can...
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