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Variations of English names reveal the enduring effects of British rule - but there’s also a return to tradition.
The word shows that language isn’t static, it evolves to reflect developments in a society.
Some explorers believed they had found unicorns depicted on rocks. The truth behind the paintings is far more interesting.
In over 30 countries LGBTIQ+ people would face imprisonment. Progress has been made but there is still a long way to go.
Missionaries and African translators working on local versions of the Bible divided South Africa’s ethnic groups by language.
Singing at King Charles III’s coronation tells a story of global histories coming full circle.
The Head & The Load finally reaches Johannesburg after delays caused by the COVID pandemic.
Using found materials from dump sites, the large scale works examine the residues of colonialism.
The British empire brought the practice of commons enclosure to Africa to claim land. Its effects continue today at sites like the Liesbeek River in Cape Town.
After South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, the previously oppressed and dispossessed black majority hoped for constitutional restitution of their land. This has largely failed.
Witch-finders of early modern Europe and modern Africa made themselves indispensable by showing people a threat of a growing crisis of threatening evil.
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Professor of French language, French and Francophone Literature, University of Windsor
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Professor of African Studies, University of Leeds
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Senior lecturer in Languages and Literature, Nelson Mandela University
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South African Research Chair in Sexualities, Genders and Queer Studies, University of Fort Hare
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Professor of Religion, Boston University
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University of Cape Town
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