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2013 Graduates

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​​Aghoghovwia.jpgDr Philip Aghoghovwia

Home country: Nigeria
Year of enrolment: 2011
Graduation date: April 2014
Department: English
Supervisor: Prof Louise Green
Co-supervisor: Dr Nwabisa Bangeni
Dissertation title: Ecocritism and the oil encounter: readings from the Niger Delta

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Asanzi.jpg​Dr Philippe Asanzi

Home country: Congo
Year of enrolment: 2010
Graduation date: December 2013
Department: Political Science
Supervisor: Prof Scarlett Cornellisen
Dissertation title: The role and behaviour of Chinese agricultural enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa: Case studies of Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Berman.jpg​​Dr Sidney Berman

Home country: Botswana
PANGeA partner: University of Botswana
Year of enrolment: 2011
Graduation date: April 2014
Department: Ancient Studies
Supervisor: Prof CHJ van der Merwe
Co-supervisor: Prof ER Wendland
Dissertation title: Analysing the frames of a bible: The case of the Setswana translations of the book of
                                                   Ruth

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​​Coombes.jpgDr Michael Coombes

Home country: South Africa
Year of enrolment: 2011
Graduation date: April 2014
Department: Ancient Studies
Supervisor: Dr Annemaré Kotzé
Dissertation title: Augustine's Contra Fortunatum: Perspectives from critical discourse analysis and argumentation theory

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​​Croese.jpgDr Sylvia Croese

Home country: Angola
Year of enrolment: 2011
Graduation date: April 2014
Department: Sociology
Supervisor: Prof Simon Bekker
Co-supervisor: Prof Edgar Pieterse
Dissertation title: Post-war state-led development at work in Angola: the Zango housing project in Luanda as a case study

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​​Davids.jpgDr Courtney Davids

Home country: South Africa
Year of enrolment: 2010
Graduation date: April 2014
Department: English
Supervisor: Ms Jeanne Ellis
Co-supervisor: Dr Dawid de Villiers
Dissertation title: From Chawton to Oakland: Configuring the nineteenth-century domestic in Catherine Hubback's writing

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Fourie.jpgDr Paula Fourie

Home country: South Africa
Year of enrolment: 2011
Graduation date: December 2013
Department: Music
Supervisor: Prof Stephanus Müller
Dissertation title: Ghoema van die Kaap: The life and music of Taliep Petersen (1950-2006)

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Kahyana.jpgDr Danson Kahyana

Home country: Uganda
PANGeA partner: Makerere University
Year of enrolment: 2011
Graduation date: April 2014
Department: English
Supervisor: Prof Tina Steiner
Co-supervisor: Lynda Spencer
Dissertation title: Negotiating (trans)national identities in Ugandan literature

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Kaigai.jpg​Dr Ezekiel Kimani Kaigai

Home country: Kenya
PANGeA partner: University of Nairobi
Year of enrolment: 2011
Graduation date: April 2014
Department: English
Supervisor: Prof Tina Steiner
Co-supervisor: Dr Tom Odhiambo
Dissertation title: Encountering strange lands: Migrant texture in Abdulrazak Gurnah's fiction

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Lipenga.jpgDr Ken Lipenga

Home country: Malawi
PANGeA partner: University of Malawi
Year of enrolment: 2011
Graduation date: April 2014
Department: English
Supervisor: Prof Grace Musila
Co-supervisor: Prof Annie Gagiano
Dissertation title: Narrative enablement: Constructions of disability in contemporary African 
                                                   imaginaries

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Musakwa.jpg​Dr Walter Musakwa

Home country: Zimbabwe
Year of enrolment: 2010
Graduation date: December 2013
Department: Geography and Environmental Studies
Supervisor: Dr Adriaan van Niekerk
Dissertation title: Evaluating the potential of earth observation for supporting sustainable urban land use planning

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Mwathunga.jpg​Dr Evance Mwathunga

Home country: Malawi
PANGeA partner: University of Malawi
Year of enrolment: 2010
Graduation date: April 2014
Department: Geography and Environmental Studies
Supervisor: Prof Ronnie Donaldson
Dissertation title: Contesting space in urban Malawi: A lefebvrian analysis

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Mwatwara.jpg​Dr Wesley Mwatwara

Home country: Zimbabwe
Year of enrolment: 2011
Graduation date: April 2014
Department: History
Supervisor: Prof Sandra Swart
Co-supervisor: Dr Ondene van Dulm
Dissertation title: A history of state veterinary services and African livestock regimes in colonial Zimbabwe, c. 1896-1980

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Ndenguino-Mpira.jpg​Dr Hermanno Ndenguino-Mpira

Home country: Gabon
Year of enrolment: 2010
Graduation date: December 2013
Department: General Linguistics
Supervisor: Prof Christene Anthonissen
Co-supervisor: Dr Johan Oosthuizen
Dissertation title: Interrogating China's approach to relations with sub-Saharan African in official documents (2000-2010) through critical discourse
                                                   analysis

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Nyambi.jpgDr Oliver Nyambi

Home country: Zimbabwe
Year of enrolment: 2011
Graduation date: December 2013
Department: English
Supervisor: Prof Annie Gagiano
Dissertation title: Nation in crisis: Alternative literary representatives of Zimbabwe Post-2000 

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Siziba.jpgDr Gugulethu Siziba

Home country: Zimbabwe
Year of enrolment: 2011
Graduation date: December 2013
Department: Sociology
Supervisor: Dr Lloyd Hill
Dissertation title: Language and the politics of identity in South Africa: the case of Zimbabwean (Shona and Ndebele speaking) migrants in Johannesburg

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Swart.jpgDr Charl Swart

Home country: South Africa
PANGeA partner: Stellenbosch University
Year of enrolment: 2010
Graduation date: December 2013
Department: Political Science
Supervisor: Prof Pierre du Toit
Dissertation title: Contending interpretations of the rule of law in South Africa

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Tilumanywa.jpgDr Florence Bayiga

Home country: Tanzania
PANGeA partner: University of Dar es Salaam
Year of enrolment: 2010
Graduation date: December 2013
Department: Geography and Environmental Studies
Supervisor: Prof Hannes van der Merwe
Co-supervisor: Prof PS Maro
Dissertation title: Land use and livelihood changes in the Mount Rungwe ecosystem, Tanzania                

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Twesigye.jpg​Dr Justus Twesigye

Home country: Uganda
PANGeA partner: Makerere University
Year of enrolment: 2010
Graduation date: December 2013
Department: Psychology
Supervisor: Prof Ashraf Kagee
Dissertation title: Explanatory models for the care of outpatients with mood disorder in Uganda: An exploratory study

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van Rhyn.jpg​Dr Chris van Rhyn

Home country: South Africa
Year of enrolment: 2011
Graduation date: December 2013
Department: Music
Supervisor: Prof Stephanus Müller
Dissertation title: Towards a mapping of the marginal: Readings of art songs by Nigerian, Ghanaian, Egyptian and South African composers

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​​Wakota.jpgDr John Wakota

Home country: Tanzania
PANGeA partner: University of Dar es Salaam
Year of enrolment: 2011
Graduation date: April 2014
Department: English
Supervisor: Prof Grace Musila
Co-supervisor: Prof Shaun Viljoen
Dissertation title: The making and remaking of gender relations in Tanzanian fiction

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