NISC News
Milestones for South African Journal of African Languages
8 April 2020 •
Announcements & Notices
The South African Journal of African Languages is a peer-reviewed research journal devoted to the advancement of African (Bantu) and Khoe-San languages and literatures with Volume 40, Issue 1 seeing the journal reaching an important...
COVID-19: lessons from the HIV and AIDS epidemic
2 April 2020 •
Announcements & Notices
Globally countries are going into lockdown due to the spread of COVID-19. It is not only illness and death that confront us in the midst of this pandemic but also social, economic and psychological effects...
Special Issue: Drought in South African savannas
25 March 2020 •
Announcements & Notices
South Africa experienced a major drought in its summer rainfall areas peaking in 2015 and 2016. Such droughts are forecast to increase in frequency and intensity, as a result of global warming. Understanding drought is...
Fourth Annual Regional Assembly - African Humanities Program
11 February 2020 •
Announcements & Notices
Wole Soyinka, 1986 Nobel laureate in literature, will deliver the keynote address at the Fourth Regional Assembly of the African Humanities Program (AHP), today, 11 February 2020.
Opening the three-day Assembly, the address will take place...
Waterbirds Special Issue
5 February 2020 •
Announcements & Notices
The remarkable research that is being undertaken on African waterbirds and the continued need to understand the unique avifauna of these aquatic environments is highlighted in Volume 90, issue 4 of Ostrich: Journal of African...