Indicative Areas of Study
The Institute is a unique, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary[C1] (MIT) graduate academic institution at Unisa, dedicated to African Renaissance Studies through teaching, research and publication. Its mandate includes a focus on developing outward reach to the whole of Africa and Diaspora Africa. The[C2] key thematic focus fields for masters and doctoral students, as well as research niches for academic staff, are as follows:
- African Renaissance
- State, business, civil society and NEPAD
- African regional and sub-regional institutions - legal frameworks, operational systems, capacity and impact
- Africa’s productive resources: ownership, control, exploitation and usage
- Africa in the global system: past, present and the required reconstruction of the future
- State capacity, legal systems, constitutionalism, sovereignty, rule of law, governance, democracy and sustainable development in Africa
- African indigenous knowledge systems, including arts, mathematics, science, technology, language and culture
- African leadership and intellectual capital, including Diaspora Africa
- Human rights, conflict management, global justice, peace and human security
- African perspectives on environment and climate change
- Media, communication and the imaging and re-imaging of Africa and African peoples
- Diplomacy, international relations and strategic interests
- Endemic/pandemic diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis
- Poverty eradication and food security
- Women, gender and power
- Children, youth and development
- Community leadership and rural development
- South-South cooperation