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Beware of Bad Dogs, A Novel
A story set in contemporary Sierra Leone about a group of politicians who view themselves as leading a prosperous and progressive country versus those of the masses, the citizens, whose experiences differ.
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Remembering anti-colonial struggles: The politics of memory, culture and national identity in postcolonial Namibia
Against the background of memory activism and decolonial movements in Southern Africa, much discussed since the South African #RhodesMustFall movement in 2015, this project traces the complex transfigurations of anti-colonial struggle memory, culture, and citizenship in postcolonial Namibia from the late 1990s through to the early 2020s.
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Deadly Illusions: The Ukraine War and Russian Historical Imagination
Some commentators have aptly called Russia’s Ukraine war a war of obsession.
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Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular Culture
Citizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first great film, D.
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Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
Bekker, Simon, Sylvia Croese and Edgar Pieterse. (Eds.). 2021. Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities. Af...
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National Identity and State Formation in Africa
Castells, Manuel and Bernard Lategan, B. (Eds.). 2021. National Identity and State Formation in Africa. Polity Press. https://politybooks.co...
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Reimagining South African Literature
Duncan Brown. 2014. Reimagining South African Literature. Journal of Southern African Studies, 40 (5), 1109-1123
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Beyond Shame: The Decline of the “Rainbow Nation.”
Adam, Heribert. 2016. Beyond Shame: The Decline of the “Rainbow Nation.” Pp. 38–43 in Re-engaging the African Diasporas: Pan-Africanism in t...
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Cities of Power. The Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global
Therborn, Göran. 2017. Cities of Power. The Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global. London & New York: Verso. https://www.versobooks.c...
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National Identities and State Formation
National identity is the set of inter-related cultural attributes that provides meaning and self-recognition to a collective of humans who define themselves as a national community.
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Cafe de Move On Blues
In Cafe de Move On Blues I plan to look at people like me, both English and Afrikaans whites, across the country, in an attempt to say who they are (and who they think they are) and how they react to life in the new South Africa.
