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Hangmen and Curses: An Extract from Nigel Penn’s “Murders, Miscreants and Mutineers”.
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Tagged Cape Colony, history, Nigel Penn, South African history
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Fantasy, reality, madness and Museveni’s Uganda: lessons of history
Angelo Fick, analysing the contentious homophobic legislation recently passed in Uganda, warns against crude and reductionist responses to these anti-gay bills.
Un-ma(s)king Mandela: an interview with Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
In an interview with Joshua Maserow, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi meditates on the relation between Art, capitalism and popular mythology.
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Tagged Anene Booysen, Apartheid museum, hero, history, icon, knowledge, myth, Nelson Mandela, painting, Reeva Steenkamp, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
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Confronting the Naqba
A new documentary film, ‘The Village Under the Forest’, shows South African Jews confronting a history of Palestinian displacement. But while the film challenges and unsettles some cherished myths, it reinforces others.
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Tagged diaspora, documentary, history, Israel, Palestine, The Village Under The Forest
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