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In 2014, the Gerda Henkel Foundation initiated a scholarship programme supporting young humanities scholars from Africa in honour of the foundation's founder, Lisa Maskell. It is the largest international support programme for PhD students in the history of the Foundation. The Lisa Maskell Fellowships aim to strengthen universities in the partner countries, to counter the outflow of qualified young scholars and to ensure the doctoral students enjoy excellent academic training.
In this dossier, L.I.S.A. publishes interviews with Lisa Maskell Fellows, in which they talk about their research projects as well as their experiences during their academic career and the Lisa Maskell fellowship.
Today, we welcome Nikiwe Lucricia Veshe from South Africa. After graduating from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa with a B.A. as well as an M.A., she started her PhD in History with the thesis A History of the Communities on the Peripheries of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, c. 1931-2002 at Stellenbosch University in 2022.