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The road between and The call

Mkhululi Mabija and Paul Castles as a librettist-compose team working on two companion pieces of alternative music theatre.

Mkhululi Mabija Mkhululi Mabija Paul Castles Paul Castles

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Historical Memory in Africa

Mamadou Diawarwa, Bernard C Lategan & Jörn Rüsen (editors). 2010. Historical Memory in Africa. Dealing with the past, reaching for the f...

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Genocidal Empires: German Colonialism in Africa and the Third Reich

Bachmann, Klaus. 2018. Genocidal Empires: German Colonialism in Africa and the Third Reich. Berlin: Peter Lang. http://doi.org/10.3726/b1383...

Klaus Bachmann Klaus Bachmann

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Glory (working title)

A multi-generational family drama told through different periods of Zimbabwe’s history.

NoViolet Bulawayo NoViolet Bulawayo

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Sex and Sexuality in Africa: A Brief History

Since at least the 1980s, historians of Africa have produced a rich and nuanced scholarship on sex and sexuality on the continent.

Sarah Emily Duff Sarah Emily Duff
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