On the morning of May 24, 1921, a force of eight hundred white policemen and soldiers
confronted an African prophet, Enoch Mgijima, and some three thousand of his followers …

In an excellent addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Robert Trent Vinson
recovers the important but largely forgotten story of Albert Luthuli, Africa's first Nobel Peace …

Narratives of political and community struggles often privilege the role of men, painting them
as the faces of the struggle. Yet, women have been (and continue to be) active participants …

abstract This is a historical account of the events of Sunday 9 November 1952–that came to
be known as Black Sunday in Duncan Village in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa …

In December 1961, Albert Luthuli, leader of the African National Congress (ANC), arrived in
Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Journalists in Norway noted how apartheid …

Women's participation in protests is long documented in history. However, protest narratives
tend to lean more towards the position and role of women as victims of protests, mostly …

24 May 2021 marked the centenary of the Bulhoek massacre in which government police
and soldiers killed about 200 members of an Eastern Cape religious group called the …

In 2015, in the year preceding the centenary of South Africa's oldest historically black
university, the University of Fort Hare, the vice chancellor of the university, Dr. Mvuyo Tom …

This dissertation is a history of Black African women's church associations (manyanos) in the
South African city of East London during segregation and apartheid. Since the early …

In this thesis I discuss the racialisation and spatialization of violence in Heidi Holland's Born
in Soweto, JM Coetzee's Disgrace, and Elaine Proctor's The Savage Hour. The three spaces …