A conversation with Dikgang Moseneke, Deputy Chief Justice Emeritus and former Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand and Anne-Maria Makhulu, Associate Prof. of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies, Duke...

Marissa Moorman's new book, Powerful Frequencies, is about radio and the state in Angola, 1931-2002. It is not about music. Yet these five pieces of music enliven the dense nexus of sentiment, technology, and power at stake in the history of...

Inequalities and the Erosion of Social Cohesion in South Africa

Older than South Africa's oldest political organisations or independent churches, a triad of prison gangs, the 26s, the 27s and the 28s, have been flourishing in carceral institutions since the late nineteenth century. Several generations of...

Join us for a reading by Romeo Oriogun, winner of the 2017 Brunel University Prize for African Poetry. Oriogun's work claims space for innovative queer writing in contemporary Nigeria. Oriogun has been described as " a hugely talented,...

Award-winning filmmaker, Rumbi Katedza, is known for her films addressing political violence, migration (Asylum), and gender (Playing Warriors) in documentary and fiction. In her presentation she will screen extracts and discuss her 2 films, The...

Framing dissidence: Apartheid and its enemies, 1960-1990 is about the history of an object called the Terrorist album by the South African Security Police. The book tells the story of how this particular collection of mug shots came about and why...

Most social science writing about the urban poor relegates them to the passive status of "populations." These populations are said to be governed, punished, managed, regulated, and surveiled from above. In this talk, I reject this understanding...

In South Africa, economic liberalization and the industrialization of extractive industries have altered normative life trajectories for most rural Xhosa. While few young men can now obtain jobs as labor migrants, some young women are finding...

Babes Wodumo and FAKA have recently emerged in the South African popular culture scene. Both artists challenge conventions relating to normative forms of black masculinity and femininity. Wodumo has enjoyed commercial success as one of the few...