Research & Initiatives

Black Agency in Christian Development

This stream of research seeks to counter hegemonic discourses about the spread and development of Christianity in Africa, which not only centre European missionary agency, but also ignore the central role that Africans have played in developing Christianity, not only from antiquity but also in the 18th and 19th centuries. This stream of research looks to highlight the major contributions that African agents have played in the establishment of Christianity in South Africa.

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Reconsidering Reconciliation and Justice

This stream of research questions the fundamental basis that the South African miracle of the rainbow nation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It interrogates the process of the TRC, its recommendations and outcomes in the quest for justice and social transformation. It explores the Khoza Mgojo archive that is housed at the Centre and uses it to ask new questions about the old issues of truth, reconciliation, and justice.

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Black Economic Alternatives

Premised on the idea that the current global capitalist economic order is oppressive towards Black people and continues to marginalise and exploit them, this stream of research looks into the development of alternative economic models as well as means of delinking from current systems of global capital that will transform the material conditions of Black people.

 

Decolonial Alternatives

This stream recognises that knowledge production is intertwined with a colonial, patriarchal and capitalist systems of global domination. This stream explores decoloniality to discover modes of knowledge production and being that exist outside of the current global systems of domination, with their inherent racism, sexism and poverty.