Month: July 2018


  • Posted on

    by

    Fluid boundaries: politicising purity in Ghana

    Location: Milgate Room, AD Hope Building, ANU Time: 2pm, Friday 27 July Speaker: Kirsty Wissing, CHL Abstract: By exploring Akwamu values and ritual uses of water, blood and other fluids in Ghana, this presentation will revisit the politics of purity and pollution. Rather than seeing categories of cleanliness and dirt as solidly bounded, I argue…

    Read more


  • Posted on

    by

    The Role of Traditional Authorities in Conflict Management: Cameroon

    Presenter: Emmanuel Lokohko Awoh (PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne) Location: Milgate Room, AD Hope Building, ANU, Canberra Time: 3pm-5pm, Friday 13 July Abstract This presentation is based on my PhD thesis where I examined the role of traditional authorities in conflict management and peace building in the North-West of Cameroon. I compared two sites within…

    Read more


  • Posted on

    by

    Report on Australia’s trade and investment relationships with the countries of Africa

    Australia’s trade and investment relationships with the countries of Africa 21 June 2018 The report of the Senate Committee is available at https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Foreign_Affairs_Defence_and_Trade/TradeinvestmentAfrica/Report The report can be viewed as a single PDF file or as the following separate downloadable parts: Committee Membership (PDF 25KB) Recommendations (PDF 37KB) Chapter 1 – Introduction (PDF 553KB) Chapter 2…

    Read more


  • Posted on

    by

    COMMEMORATION OF THE LIFE OF SONWABO EDDIE FUNDE (1943-2018)

    (From Professor Helen Ware, UNE) A celebration of the the life of Eddie Funde was held at Sydney Trades Hall on 19th June 2018. The venue was very appropriate because this was where Eddie established the African National Congress office after his arrival in 1983. After the breakdown of apartheid, Funde relocated to Johannesburg in…

    Read more