Project

Certain uncertainties: Identity politics, power and categorisation in postcolonial Kenya

Before the 2017 election, Kenya’s President declared the minority ethnic Makonde community recognised as ‘the 43rd tribe of Kenya’.

Samantha Balaton-Chrimes Samantha Balaton-Chrimes

Publication

South Africa’s Dreams. Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia

Gordon, Robert J. 2021. South Africa’s Dreams. Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia. Berghahn Books. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Go...

Robert Gordon Robert Gordon

Project

The Dialectics of Emancipation and Africa: political theory and political practice

Beginning from the understanding that it is imperative today to develop new concepts for the thinking of an emancipatory politics on the African continent (Fanon), this book develops and expands into new empirical domains the arguments first enunciated in my treatise on political theory Thinking Freedom in Africa: toward a theory of emancipatory politics which was awarded the Frantz Fanon Prize in 2017.

Michael Neocosmos Michael Neocosmos

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The was, the is and the might-have-been: Political leadership in post-apartheid South Africa

Bill Nasson. 2008. The was, the is and the might-have-been: Political leadership in post-apartheid South Africa. Journal of African History,...

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Sounding the Cape: Music, Identity and Politics in Sourth Africa

Denis-Constant Martin. 2013. Sounding the Cape: Music, Identity and Politics in Sourth Africa. African Minds, 444 + xxvi pp. ISBN 978-1-9204...

Denis-Constant Martin Denis-Constant Martin

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Declassified

Gerhard Maré. 2014. Declassified. Jacana Media (Auckland Park, 200 pp). ISBN: 978-1-4314-2020-99

Gerhard Mare Gerhard Mare

Publication

God, Spies and Lies: Finding South Africa’s Future through Its Past

Matisonn, John. 2015. God, Spies and Lies: Finding South Africa’s Future through Its Past. Cape Town: Missing Ink. http://missingink.co.za/g...

John Matisonn John Matisonn

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Viel Feind, viel Ehr

Bachmann, Klaus. 2018. Viel Feind, viel Ehr. Osteuropa, 68(3–5), 413–434. https://www.zeitschrift-osteuropa.de/hefte/2018/3-5/viel-feind-vie...

Klaus Bachmann Klaus Bachmann

Publication

Confronting Apartheid

Dugard, John. 2018. Confronting Apartheid. Jacana Media. http://www.jacana.co.za/book-categories/new-releases-65840/confronting-apartheid-de...

John Dugard John Dugard

Project

Creating a Liberal British Empire: Histories and Legacies

This book will address the question of how liberal society attempts to reconcile empire to its values and principles.

Richard Price Richard Price

Project

On Our Own

This is a writing project that would examine South African politics in exile and how that had an impact on the relationship of political parties inside the country.

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