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Submitted by Anonymous on 14 January, 2015 - 17:03

Keith Breckenridge's Interview with Peter Alegi on Digital Humanities and the Biometric State

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 14 January, 2015 - 08:51

http://afripod.aodl.org/2015/01/afripod-88/

Videos of 2014's Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 12 January, 2015 - 09:56

A playlist of videos from 2014's Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism.

Review of A Man of Good Hope in the Observer

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 4 January, 2015 - 12:42

Ian Birrell reviews Jonny Steinberg's A Man of Good Hope in the Observer.

Review of Piero Gleijeses, 'Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 10 December, 2014 - 17:12

Lee, Christopher J.. "Review of Piero Gleijeses, 'Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991'." The American Historical Review 119 (2014): 1638-1641.

On the Publication of 'Kritik der schwarzen Vernunft'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 3 December, 2014 - 18:15

Die Zeit interviews Achille Mbembe on the German translation of Critique de la raison nègre - Kritik der schwarzen Vernunft. (In German.)

Die Zeit Interviews Achille Mbembe

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 3 December, 2014 - 18:06

Die Zeit interviews Achille Mbembe. (In German.)

Media Coverage of 'The Matric as Metric'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 3 December, 2014 - 15:26

Our final Public Positions event for 2014 on the Matric as Metric drew a large and enthusiastic audience. Media coverage includes articles in:

The Mail and Guardian,

The Daily Maverick,

Lisa Vetten, 'The River Runs Dry'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 28 November, 2014 - 10:40

Research Associate Lisa Vetten on South Africa's floundering gender equality project.

Publication of Christopher J. Lee's 'Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 19 November, 2014 - 05:15

In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa—contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia—from the 1910s to the 1960s.

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