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.
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.
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.
Former WiSER Writing Fellow and current associate researcher Khadija Patel has collaborated on a major new project for Al Jazeera. No Place Like Home tells the stories of migrants and xenophobia in South Africa.
Danai Pechedu, a pupil at Sacred Heart College in Johannesburg:
My name is Danai Pachedu and I am 11 years old. For the past two weeks my life has changed. I have been scared to go to the shops because people may recognize me. I have stopped speaking Shona in public or too loudly at home because I might be recognized and our house identified. I don’t go to the park to play anymore because I might not come back if someone recognizes me. I spend most of my time inside our yard or at my private school because I am afraid to go anywhere and be recognized.
Wits vice–chancellor Prof Adam Habib has released a statement on behalf of the university, condemning the xenophobic attacks that have taken place across South Africa in recent weeks.
Dear Members of the Wits Community
Wits University strongly condemns all forms of xenophobia and the brutal acts of violence taking place throughout our country. These acts are unacceptable, inhumane and a clear violation of basic human rights.
Co-presented with the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Department of Musicology
Neo Muyanga’s opera The Struggle serves as a departure point for a panel discussion exploring the role of Black opera and other genres of Black music in achieving racial justice and social change, the persistent exclusionary politics of musical genres, and the future revolutionary potential of historically defined Black genres.
Wits University Press will publish an updated edition of Achille Mbembe's On the Postcolony, with a foreword by Professor of African Literature Isabel Hofmeyr and a preface by the author, this month.
The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, Professor Adam Habib, has released a statement on accelerating transformation at Wits.
On 6 May 2015, the House of Prayer for All Nations Choir performed the Uniti Hymn, composed by WiSER composer-in-residence Neo Muyanga, and based on the preamble to the national planning commission written by poets Njabulo Ndebele and Antjie Krog. The concert premier of the hymn was recorded live to form part of an art installation at the African union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, set to open in 2015.
An edited version of the new preface, 'The Value of Africa's Aesthetics,' to the Africa edition of Achille Mbembe's On the Postcolony, published in May 2015 by Wits University Press.
