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ANU Africa Network
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This website was established in 2013 by David Lucas, and renovated and relaunched in 2020 as part of a project to increase awareness of Africa and African studies in the ANU and the ACT, funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Another outcome of that project was a major research report, published in August 2021, African Studies at the Australian National University and in the Australian Capital Territory, analyzing the past, present and future of the study of Africa at the Australian National University and the wider Australian University sector.
The major innovation on this updated website is the creation of the ACT Africa Expert Directory which lists experts on Africa from institutions around the ACT, primarily the ANU. We will continue to curate this list, offering a key resource for media, government and non-government organizations seeking expert facts and opinions on Africa. Individuals can request to be added to the list by contacting the website managers.
Another notable addition is the expanded directory of PhD theses on Africa produced in the territory’s universities, a solid measure of the vitality of the study of Africa in the city of Canberra.
Reviewing these directories, it is revealing to note that the vast majority of research on Africa is produced by disciplinary experts (environmental scientists, economists, demographers, etc.) rather than area studies experts. This means that the study of Africa is woven into the fabric of the research culture of the ANU and the ACT’s other universities in ways that are not necessarily apparent.
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Text of the Inaugural Anthony Low Lecture by Gareth Evans on COMMONWEALTH DIPLOMACY AND THE END OF APARTHEID
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Inaugural Anthony Low Commonwealth Lecture by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC FASSA FAIIA, Chancellor of The Australian National University, Canberra, 17 November 2016.
The text of this lecture can be found by accessing
https://www.gevans.org/speeches/Speech621Cth_Diplomacy_Apartheid.html
and by clicking on the link for this speech
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ANU African Students’ Association Committee 2016/7
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President Adegboyega Adeniran
Vice President Chernor Bangura
Secretary Emily Wakesho
Assistant Secretary Thabani Zondo
Treasurer Wellington Barchue
Public Relations Officer Storm Viall
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Cho Kabudula awarded the 2017 JC Caldwell Fellowship
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Chodziwadziwa (‘Cho’) Kabudula from University of the Witwatersrand has been awarded the 2017 JC Caldwell Fellowship and will be visiting the ANU’s School of Demography sometime next year.
Cho is a Population Health Data Scientist and Researcher affiliated with the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health & Health Transitions Research Unit (the MRC/Wits-Agincourt Research Unit) at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
The Unit runs the Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) which since 1992 has been collecting detailed longitudinal information on vital events including births, deaths, and migrations, as well as complementary data covering health, social and economic indicators in a rural population in north east South Africa. These data have been utilised to conduct population-based investigations of population and health dynamics and their determinants in this rural population. His research focuses on integrating the population-level socio-demographical, behavioural, disease and risk factor prevalence data from the surveillance population with clinical, treatment and laboratory data and applying demographic, statistical, computational and informatics techniques to study population-level morbidity, mortality and utilisation of health services (i.e. outcomes and selected mediators), and their social and contextual determinants.
He has been working with Dr. Brian Houle from the ANU’s School of Demography and to date they have co-authored with two research articles that have been published in peer-review journals,