The African Disability Rights Yearbook showcases disability scholarship. Coming in the wake of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it is the first peer-reviewed journal on the African continent to focus exclusively on disability under human rights. This yearbook is also a source for country reports and commentaries on …

Why a cookbook, and why does it matter to a Faculty of Humanities?

Food represents our edible world. It is a concept, an idea, and a practice ––  simply because food is more than a micronutrient and a science. Food represents what Appadurai describes as ‘the social lives of things’. It is deeply sociocultural and fundamentally associative and relational.

South Africa’s most important election since 1994 delivered the first coalition government in a democratic South Africa.  In vying for votes, South African political parties confronted  key voter questions: How do citizens make the choice of where to put their mark? Who can they trust to give voice to their aspirations? Who will help rebuild and grow Africa’s most developed economy to benefit more people in the world’s most unequal society? Nicholas Bauer’s guide played a significant role in helping many to wade through the claims and promises that flew around ahead of the elections.