PhD Candidates

Maryam Chinasa Adewunmi is pursuing her doctoral research in the Africanisation of the International Relations Honours curriculum at selected universities in South Africa. She is also interested in related issues of African Feminist indigenous knowledge, and presented at CERT’s inaugural Women’s Day Circle in August 2023 on “Re-centring Indigenous Feminism in Knowledge for Educational Transformation in Africa”, where she shared perspectives from Nigeria. The circle involved a conversation on what throws indigenous women ‘off-centre’ with Professor Darlene Miller (Thabo Mbeki School of Governance, UNISA) and fellow research scholar and indigenous feminist environmental activist Vanessa Ludwig from African Feminist Studies at the University of Cape Town,