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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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HIV and older adults in South Africa
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ANU Demography seminar
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School of Demography and
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population HealthResearching health and well-being of older adults in a context of a severe HIV epidemic: A personal perspective
Presenter: Dr Makandwe Nyirenda
Date and time: Thursday 3 December 2015, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: Bob Douglas Lecture Theatre, Building 62 (entrance on Eggleston Road)The population of older persons in South Africa is rapidly ageing. As a result of which, South Africa is in midst of a health transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases. Yet the health care system is not yet adequately prepared or well-equipped to handle emerging non-communicable diseases or the needs of older people. The health and well-being of older people is not well understood, owing to limited studies that explore direct and indirect effects of HIV on health of older people. In this presentation I describe research I have been involved in on the health and well-being of older adults, highlighting some research gaps and planned next steps with potential for collaborations.
Dr Makandwe Nyirenda is from the HIV Prevention Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council and will be visiting the Australian National University in December 2015 as the first recipient of the John C Caldwell African Research Visiting Fellowship.
Further information
Refreshments will be served following the seminar.
The seminar is free and open to the public.
E Anushka.Patel@anu.edu.au
T 02 6125 8346
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When China Met Africa film screening
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When China Met Africa is a 74 minute film in Chinese with English subtitles. It will be screened at 5.30 on Wednesday, December 2nd, in The Auditorium, China in the World Building 188, Fellows Lane, ANU. Fellows Lane is behind the Law Building, enter near the bridge.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Beyongo Dynamic, a political scientist focused on Sino-African trade and investment, who has just returned from fieldwork in Zambia.
To download the poster, see
https://ciw.anu.edu.au/events/asiapacificscreens/s4/when_china_met_africa/aps_1202_when_china_met_africa.pdf
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BETWEEN THE PLOUGH AND THE PICK
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From Margaret O’Callaghan (Crawford School, ANU)
In November, 2015, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific through the Crawford School’s Resources Environment and Development Program, hosted an international conference on informal (or artisanal) mining in the contemporary world as part of two ARC research grant funded projects. The primary purpose was to engage with the scholarly understanding of contemporary agrarian transition, the political ecology of mineral extraction and other related aspects. Dozens of participants came from all over the world and discussed their research into the nature and dimensions of this form of mining. African countries rated a number of mentions and Kenyan Catherine Ngonze who has just joined the UNDP Bureau for Policy and Programme Support in Belgium, spoke about the African Mining Vision and related matters. She noted how Africa’s strong economic growth, infrastructure boom and rapid urbanization have been driving a demand for construction materials and other relatively low value materials, but which nethertheless have great employment creation value and helps to stimulate intra-Africa trade. She has also been working on a project with women miners, including in Zambia.
The conference program also included a keynote presentation on wealth creation in Africa by Professor Gavin Hilson, and two papers on Ghana, one by Ms Elizabeth Koomson and the other by Professor Petra Tschakert