Prof. Anthony Court (School of Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies) (C2 NRF rated), is proceeding with his research, which includes the third year of a five year project in Poland entitled “Re-placing labour: Exploitation of forced labour in Nazi occupied East Upper Silesia, 1944-1945”
In partnership with colleagues from the University of Pretoria and and an Austrian filmmaker and historian, Professor Anthony Court, School of Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies (2012 C2 NRF rated), is proceeding with his research, which includes the third year of a five-year project in Poland entitled Re-placing labour: Exploitation of forced labour in Nazi occupied East Upper Silesia, 1944-1945. The project findings will be published in a monograph in Holland.
Court continues to research the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. He is currently focusing on the history of the late pre-colonial and early colonial Nyiginya kingdom. He is also a lead researcher in a Southern African audiovisual historical archive digitising project in partnership with the Dutch NGO, International Institute of Social History (2011-2016).
Court also plans to extend the scope of his research in the African Great Lakes region to include the post-1994 mass violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His particular interest is the role of foreign armies and militia in the mass killings, rape and torture of civilians. He is also undertaking a study of the archives of the German missionary society in colonial Rwanda. These are major strides in research, no doubt adding value to the university as it celebrates 140 years of excellence in research and innovation. “My research focuses on comparative genocide studies, which is a comparatively new and growing field in African scholarship,” he says.
