The Rhodes University

Rhodes University’s Africa Multiple Research Cluster Centre (AMRC) is located in the Faculty of Humanities, Rhodes University. It works with a network of scholars to promote research and teaching on African studies within an interdisciplinary framework. The Centre is established and recognised institutionally according to the Rhodes University Scholarly Entities Framework and is externally funded by the Germany Research Foundation via the University of Bayreuth’s African Cluster Centres of Excellence Strategy. The Rhodes AMRC will develop into a fully-fledged African Studies Centre. For this reason, we seek to maintain enduring partnerships with other Cluster Centres and entities of similar intent in our vision of reimagining, repositioning and revitalising African Studies.

The centre has a team of scholars with diverse expertise ranging from social and political history of Africa; gender studies; language and language policy; water, climatic change and environmental learning; African politics; African literary studies; African art and aesthetics as well as African musicology. The Centre currently has as its members, three South African National Research Foundation Chairs, in addition to a number of rated researchers and established scholars.

Structure of Rhodes-AMRC

Director: Enocent Msindo (Professor of African history and former President of the Southern African Historical Society)
Academic Coordinator: Nelson Odume (Senior Researcher/Director, Unilever Centre for Environmental Water Quality)
Gender & Diversity Representative: Lynda Spencer (Senior Lecturer in English Literary Studies)
Early Career Representative: Thando Njovane (English Literary Studies)
 

Members in the research sections:

• Accumulation: Enocent Msindo, Patrice Mwepu (Professor of Francophone Africa studies), Tapiwa Madimu (Senior Lecturer Department of History)
• Digitalities: Chika Nnadozie (Head of the Centre for Environmental Water Quality)
• Ecologies: Heila Lotz-Sisitka (NRF Chair on Environmental education), Nelson Odume, Gladman Thondhlana (Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science), Susanne Vetter (Professor of Ecology)
• In/securities: Laurence Juma (Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law)
• Re:membering: Boudina McConnachie (The International Library of African Music, Rhodes - African musicology), Thando Njovane, Dominique Santos, Ruth Simbao (Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University), Lee Watkins (The International Library of African Music, Rhodes - African musicology)
• Translating: Sally Matthews (Professor African politics), Lynda Spencer (English Literary Studies)

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