Esma Karadag
Guest researcher
- Name
- E. Karadag
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- e.karadag@asc.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- null
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
Guest researcher
- Afrika-Studiecentrum
- Afrika-Studiecentrum hoogleraren/onderzoekers
- İzgi M.C., Karadag E., Yılmaz H.I. & Guudle M.O.O. (2026), Knowledge production under hegemonic shadows: the spectrum of epistemic inequality, power dynamics, and marginalisation in African studies, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 13: 1-15 (423).
- Karadag E. (6 May 2025), Who gets to be African?: Pan-Africanism in South African schools. ASCL Africanist blog. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). [blog entry].