AiW Guest: Tadiwa Madenga A few years ago, I started to feel like I was learning everything I knew from YouTube. It was exciting to find a free archive with endless live recordings from concerts, artists’ interviews, hair tutorials, and… Read More ›
Rhodes Must Fall
Genre, Politics, and Southern Superheroes: Review of Bill Masuku’s Captain South Africa
AiW Guest: Dominic Davies. A little over two years ago I travelled to Cape Town to attend FanCon 2016, an event that was then South Africa’s most attended comics convention to date. As a researcher interested in graphic narratives from… Read More ›
Event: #ApartheidMustFall to #RhodesMustFall?: The Soweto Uprising of 16 June 1976, 16 June 2016, London
Remember Soweto Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 17:00, London, United Kingdom By: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, Southern Africa Seminar Studies On 16th June 1976, peaceful student protest at Afrikaans language education in the Soweto… Read More ›
The South African State of Emergency
AiW Guest: Jeanne-Marie Jackson South Africa’s literary world, as part of the country’s broad current turmoil, offers evidence for more than just a shallow reading of cultural déjà vu. This evidence goes by the name of Salman Rushdie, who unexpectedly… Read More ›
“What’s Happening Over There?”: World Literature from the Global South – Man Booker International Public Panel, 26.03.2015
AiW Guest: Sarah Middleton. It has become hard to imagine living in a place where there’s a constant supply of electricity. In Cape Town we experience load-shedding, like the rest of the country, as a measure to prevent the collapse… Read More ›
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