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Sound Knowledges of the Black World

This project investigates sound knowledges from Southern African cosmologies and investigate their deployment in black radicalism enacted within Pan-African and black internationalist contexts in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Uhuru Phalafala Uhuru Phalafala

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Religion and Dialogue in Modern Societies: Possibilities, Challenges, and Limitations of Interreligious Dialogue, with a Focus on Dialogue in Theology and Education

The growing religious pluralisation of modern societies has placed the question of religions and dialogue at the centre of public and academic attention.

Wolfram Weisse Wolfram Weisse

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Queues of Limitless Hope: The Novel and Social Crisis in the African Republic of Letters

Queues of Limitless Hope asks: what happens to the novel form under the conditions of protracted socio-political crisis?

Ranka Primorac Ranka Primorac

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Reimagining South African Literature

Duncan Brown. 2014. Reimagining South African Literature. Journal of Southern African Studies, 40 (5), 1109-1123

Duncan Brown Duncan Brown
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