Globally, the humanities seem to be experiencing a crisis of confidence, with declining
student numbers and a loss of faith among scholars in the methods and powers of their …

Abstract The Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 has come to be observed through a range of
memorialisation processes aimed at confronting the past. Alongside the often-low-keyed …

This research report explores the reading practices among politically aware high school
students living in Soweto between 1968 and 1976. The research report uses original oral …

This article proposes a literary canon founded on dialectical principles, using South Africa as
our historical example. In order to do so, we first trace the development of dialectical thought …

How does the state, in the form of the censor, guide the act of reading, and how is a text's
audience determined by the political and historical conditions within which it is produced …

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reflect the views or policies of the Human Sciences Research Council (the Council) or …

This study explores how libraries mediated interactions between black readers and texts in
twentieth century South Africa. By situating libraries as vital infrastructures of reading, I …

As we have studied the roles of women and gender in the period of modern Africa, one
woman who shaped African history was Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, who is a renowned figure …

It is a rare moment when an individual can look at a peoples' history and definitively point to
a single person as single-handed setting the stage for the present. In New England, that …