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In this 52” documentary film, (with French and English subtitles), award-winning Malian kora player Ballaké Sissoko takes us on a unique journey through Mali, Senegal and Gambia to follow the trail of the kora, a unique West African harp with 21 strings, said to have been created by the djinns.

The project challenges the exclusion in the dominant understanding of philosophical traditions and of philosophical knowledge as essentially textual, exploring the non-textuality of philosophical knowledge in African places with a specific focus on oral and symbolic forms of knowledge.

The project is an interdisciplinary and public engagement project that brings together academics, healthcare workers and persons with disabilities in three different African countries to collectively and creatively understand and challenge deeply rooted philosophies and beliefs about disabilities in sub-Saharan Africa and their impact on access to healthcare for persons with disabilities.

Political Economy of institutions, Worker-Managed cooperatives, Alternatives to capitalism, Philosophy of economics, Democratic and Anarchist Theory.

Dr Andrea Longo joined SOAS School of Law, Gender and Media to work as post-doctoral researcher under Prof.

Learn all about the people highlighted in murals on campus and how their stories are a testament to global liberation movements.

In this lecture/discussion, Panggah Ardiyansyah explores the return of manuscripts in digital form as part of broader decolonial and heritage practices.

SOAS hosts the Pulitzer-finalist Reuters team that revealed the horrific tactics the Nigerian military deployed in its battle against Islamist insurgencies: a secret mass abortion programme for women and girls impregnated by Boko Haram fighters, and the targeted killing of children believed to be the offspring or allies of the militants.