PhD candidate, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town. Turkish Ministry of National Education (MoNE) scholarship holder. MA in History at UCT. BA in History in Turkey.

More information about Esma Karadag

Fields of interest

• Pan-Africanism
• ubuntu
• history textbooks
• African Renaissance
• Rainbowism
• nationalism
• nation-building
• constitutional citizenship
• intellectual history
• historiography
• South African War of 1899–1902

Research

A highly engaged interdisciplinary study (Education and African studies) that aims to contribute to the contemporary intellectual thoughts and debates within the framework of Pan-Africanism, as a form of nationalism, through the lens of South African school history textbooks and to reveal how Pan-Africanism is taught in these institutions and how it is perceived by teachers and students.

Grants and awards

Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig, Germany, Fellowship Researcher, May 2022

Researcher for project on Sudanese and Tanzanian school textbooks, Maarif Foundation, 2022