As part of the monthly colloquium for M.A. and PhD scholarship holders at University of Maiduguri and University of Cape Coast, who are all researching in the transdisciplinary field of Cultural Sustainability, this lecture highlights the relation between political activism and academic research. The overwhelming majority of the scholarship holders are doing research on topics which can be considered being inherently political, So together with the student, Sylvie will explore the relation between activism and research.