Prof Sarah Nuttall took part in a recent debate, 'No Longer at Ease: Debating Race and Identity Politics in South Africa,' at the University of Cape Town.
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.
Makhosazana Xaba - who spoke at the launch of Jacob Dlamini's Askari at WiSER - reflects on betrayal, torture, and the complexities of the anti-apartheid struggle.
A South African edition of On the Postcolony will be published in May by Wits University Press, with a foreword by Isabel Hofmeyr and a note by the author.
We are delighted to announce that Jonny Steinberg will be joining WiSER’s staff in 2015. Steinberg has been appointed as Full Professor at WiSER as part of Vice Chancellor Adam Habib’s Distinguished Professorships programme.
A former Rhodes scholar, Steinberg has a doctorate in political theory from Oxford University where he currently teaches.
Tonight at WiSER Achille Mbembe, in a moving public address, lamented the fragile and failing power of imagination in South Africa, 20 years after the end of Apartheid. Concomitant with our inability to think with hope and clarity about a future from our own experience, is our stuckness, our stasis.
