Gcotyelwa Jimlongo, a Rhodes University Political and International Studies post-graduate student won Best Honours Essay at the South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS) conference held in October. Jimlongo described the three-day conference as a golden opportunity where she met some of her favourite scholars. “All the people I’ve... Read more

Rhodes University Library Services Director, Ms Ujala Satgoor is the first recipient of the Executive Librarian of the Year Award made by the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA). LIASA, founded in 1997, is a professional non-profit organisation, uniting and representing all institutions and people working in... Read more

Rhodes University student, Philiswa Lila has won this year’s Absa L’Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award. In her second-year of Masters in Art History (forms part of the SARChl research – The Geopolitics of Africa), her research focuses on questioning the role of ritual as a mediums of physicality and spirituality... Read more

For Christian Nkanga, getting an education, furthering his studies and working with top researchers was a dream come true. While faced with the realities of the socio-economic challenges of his family and home country, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nkanga knew that perseverance and hope was the only... Read more