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The way African language courses are offered at South African universities keeps social divisions in place.
Fela Kuti created his own myth, and his fans did the rest. Today his music and politics are as relevant as they were before his death in 1997.
Magubane’s photographs testify to the hope that is at the heart of the struggle for a just world.
The Drum journalist was a rare woman in a male-dominated world. Her autobiography has now been published after her death.
The end of apartheid should have heralded a new South Africa for the generation born at its demise. But that hasn’t happened.
Afrikaans is very much a black language. The apartheid government’s ploy to construct it as a “white language”, with a “white history”, denied the commonality of the language across race and class.
A South African novel, published in 1980 and dealing with the Soweto student uprising four years earlier, still provides lessons for students today.
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Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Literary Studies, University of Cape Town
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Emeritus Professor of Literature and Literary Theory, Department of Afrikaans, University of Pretoria
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Senior Researcher: Poverty and Inequality Initiative, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer (Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork), University College Cork
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Brill Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State
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Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, University of Minnesota
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Lecturer on the New Generation of Academics Programme (nGAP) in African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Professor in Indigenous and International Development, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Associate Professor in Māori Sport, Physical Education and Oranga, School of Health Sciences, University of Canterbury