The Drum journalist was a rare woman in a male-dominated world. Her autobiography has now been published after her death.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
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Her celebration of black life, black beauty and black humanity through her films and music was subversive.
The revered trombonist, composer and cultural activist never wished to be ‘the state composer’ but remained political until the end, in service of the people.
The gift of his images lies in their depiction of the social worlds that apartheid sought to destroy, but that live on through the photographs.
The magazine grew to be the largest circulation publication for black readers in South Africa, and expanded to include East and West African editions.
Even though they were a product of apartheid’s propaganda broadcasting machine, Zulu language radio dramas proved subversively powerful by reflecting communal black life and creating new stars.
Bishop Huddleston’s criticism of Enoch Powell’s incendiary “Rivers of blood” speech was both a history lesson and a call to action against racism.
Hugh Masekela’s itinerary-in-exile was loud and clear in his songs.
South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela made an impact across the world during his decades-long musical career.
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Visiting Research Professor in the School of Languages, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor in Cultural Studies and English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Ph.D. fellow in European Research Council (ERC) project "Apartheid- The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990", led by Prof. Louise Bethlehem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the ERC funded project APARTHEID-STOPS that studies the transnational circulation of anti-apartheid expressive culture., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer (Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork), NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Artist in Residency, University of Pretoria
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Brill Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State
