Blogs

On 'The Colour of Our Future' - a panel including Xolela Mangcu, Hlonipa Mokoena and Crain Soudien, and chaired by Ashraf Jamal, at the recent Open Book Festival in Cape Town.

[A shorter version of this piece was published in the Sunday Times.]

Achille Mbembe's 'Critique de la raison nègre' has been translated into Dutch.

Sarah Emily Duff recently published a post - 'Race, Class, and Sex Education in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa' - based on her current research on Notches: (Re)Marks on the History of Sexuality.

The Monica Wilson Prize is awarded to the best student essay submitted by a postgraduate student as a paper at the annual Anthropology Southern Africa conference. The prize-winning essay is selected based on the work that best addresses the theme of the annual conference or excellently exemplifies the spirit of discovery in ethnographic work. The winner receives a monetary prize and publication in the ASnA Journal.

The Sowetan reports on Hlonipha Mokoena's return to South Africa, and position at WiSER.

The Society for Current and Global Affairs presents

Rhodes Has Fallen. Now What?

With Achille Mbembe

And as part-discussant, Prof Christie van der Westhuizen

20 August 2015

17:00

University of Pretoria Main Campus - SRC Chambers

Programme:

Achille Mbembe on the Marikana killings.

RACE: LIVED EXPERIENCES AND CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof Adam Habib, and Wits Journalism invite you to the 13th annual Ruth First Memorial Lecture.

An interview with Achille Mbembe in Afrique Magazine. (In French.)