Duke University: Re-inventing Suburbia in Johannesburg

Khadija Patel, 'Re-inventing Suburbia in Johannesburg'

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2014, 12:00pm-2:00pm
Location: FHI Garage, C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse

Re-Inventing Suburbia in Johannesburg

Khadija Patel, Journalist / Blogger / WiSER-Duke Writing Fellow
- with responses from -
Achille Mbembe, WiSER/Duke & Sarah Nuttall, WiSER

Khadija Patel is a journalist and blogger who is writing a history of the suburb of Mayfair in Johannesburg, where she grew up.  Home these days to Somalis, Ethiopians, Turks, and Indian and Coloured South Africans, Mayfair is both negotiating newly Afropolitan identities and battling legacies of segregation. For more information about her work, please visit her website.

The WiSER-Duke Writing Fellowship is intended for writers who usually work outside of a University environment (e.g. non-fiction writer, journalist, musical composer) who could benefit from the opportunity to write and reflect in an academic setting.

The fellowships are jointly supported by WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at the University of Witwatersrand, and the Franklin Humanities Institute and Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke. Fellows spend five months at WiSER and one month at Duke.

For more on this event, see here.