Apartheid
The Seed Is Mine – The Life of Kas Maine
Written in 1997, following what sounds to be an extensive oral history data collection effort, Charles van Onselen wrote “The Seed is Mine”. The book brings to life the experiences of one, and one who might otherwise not have any other record in the written historical documents (exception on legal note). This book is an […]
Tags: #Apartheid #Ethnography #History #Oral History #South Africa
Chris Hani
Ohio University Press has a series of “Short Histories of Africa”. I recently decided to pick up most of the collection for potential use as reading materials for classes. This post covers “Chris Hani” (2014) by Hugh MacMillan. Like others in this series, this book helps provide accessible and concise materials on leading figures that […]
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Steve Biko
Ohio University Press has a series of “Short Histories of Africa”. I had one book from this series previously, on Thomas Sankara, and recently decided to pick up most of the collection for potential use as reading materials for classes. This post covers “Steve Biko” by Lindy Wilson, published in 2011. I found this book useful […]
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Medical Apartheid
Winner of several awards, Harriet A. Washington’s “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present” (2006) documents a history we tend only to know bits and pieces of. Those familiar with ethics will be aware of the Tuskegee Study, but likely not the bigger story. This is […]
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I Write What I Like – Steve Biko
Similar to other giants of the struggle against apartheid, we do not have a book written by Steve Biko that pens his ideas. For Robert Sobukwe, a biography was written, while for Steve Biko, we have a collection of his writings and transcripts, first published in 1978. The book contains powerful ideas, some of which […]
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New Publication: South Africa & the Group Areas Act
Cochrane, L. and Chellan, W. (2017) “The Group Areas Act affects us all”: Apartheid and Socio-Religious Change in the Cape Town Muslims Community, South Africa. Oral History Forum. Abstract: Oral history interviews with elders of the Cape Town Muslim community were conducted in order to record and explore the socio-religious changes that occurred over the last […]
Tags: #Apartheid #Group Areas Act #Oral History #Religion #South Africa
Surplus People: Forced Removals in South Africa
The experts for this ‘thought provoker’ come from “The Surplus People: Forced Removals in South Africa” (1985) by Platzky and Walker, which is the summarized version of a five volume study on the topic. The book was published while apartheid was still forcing relocation and displacement, as one of its many policies for “separate development.” In […]
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Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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