SOAS congratulates Nobel Prize winner, Abdulrazak Gurnah SOAS University of London has warmly welcomed the award of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature to Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah.
SOAS-led research project underway on the Kitaveta language A Kenyan-UK team of linguists, led by Professor Lutz Marten, are working on a community-based language description project to document the Kenyan community language Kitaveta, spoken in Taita-Taveta district close to the Tanzanian border.
Call for Papers for a CEPR-IDOS-SOAS-UCT Workshop Submit your work to the Call for Papers for a Workshop on Fostering Sustainable Finance and Investment for Just and Resilient Transitions in the Global South, hosted by SOAS, University of London, 27-28 November 2025.
Five lessons the UK can learn from Italy’s asylum accommodation crisis Asylum accommodation is a political battleground: drawing on his research in Italy, Dr Paolo Novak shows how the UK’s case reveals that it is never just about housing, but about power, inequality, and belonging.
Too good to B true: B corp certification in the face of greenwashing Does B Corp certification drive corporate accountability or serve as a sophisticated form of greenwashing in a world increasingly demanding ethical business practice?
The year of the big vote: Do we have the world leaders we need? More than 2 billion people in 50 countries will be invited to vote in 2024. Saleeta Akbar reports on what was discussed during latest Director’s Lecture Series on the year of the big vote.