The Concilium’s own Anne-Maria Makhulu was profiled on Left of Black.  Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal touched on many South African topics including Makhulu’s most recent publication, Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics and the Struggle for Home (Duke University Press, 2015), the recent #FeesMustFall South African students protests, and the elusive South African middle class.

Anne-Maria Makhulu's latest work Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics and the Struggle for Home (Duke University Press, 2015) investigates squatter settlements on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa during the time period surrounding the end of apartheid. Makhulu’s work sets a landscape of urban militants actively engaged in what she coins a “politics of presence”.  Making Freedom shows how the defiant domestication of space had reshaped Cape Town’s map and redirected history.

Makhulu is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University. She also sits on the steering committee for the Concilium of Southern Africa (COSA).