MERLIT Researcher published in African Studies Quarterly Friday 19/12/2025 MERLIT Researcher, Josephine Ofei's review of Isaac Vincent Joslin's 'Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions' appears in African Studies Quarterly December 2025 edition. On Cosmopolitanism, ‘Practical’ Essentialism and Living in the Meritocracy: An Interview with Prof. Kwame Anthony Appiah Wednesday 10/07/2024 Interview by Tola Ositelu (MERLIT). BIRMM Op-Ed - Narratives of Mobility and Care: Women of ‘Windrush’ and Migratory Ambivalence Thursday 18/12/2025 This op-ed is part of a series of articles published by VUB-BIRMM research group, commemorating International Migrants' Day 2025. This piece discusses the UK establishment's conflicted relationship with migration, using the late 2010s so-called Windrush/Home Office scandal as a case study. ‘The cuts pose a huge threat to our meritocratic principles’ - Interview with MERLIT Researcher in VUB Newsletter December 2025 Tuesday 16/12/2025 '...Professor Eva Ulrike Pirker's MERLIT research examines how ideas about merit and success have evolved over the centuries in literature...'