Category: Opinion

Hlonipha Mokoena, University of the Witwatersrand This year marks the centenary of the publication in 1922 of Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona (The Black People and Whence They Came), the … Read More

Phuti Sepuru, University of Pretoria Singer-songwriter Simphiwe Dana is working with fellow South African creative director, theatre producer and dancer Gregory Maqoma and his Vuyani Dance Theatre company. The new … Read More

Charles C. Stewart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The ancient Timbuktu manuscripts of Mali were back in the headlines following internet giant Google’s initiative to host a collection of them … Read More

Archie Dick, University of Pretoria On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines from Pretoria’s Central Police … Read More

Gibson Ncube, Stellenbosch University “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” This is how British Somali poet Warsan Shire begins her now famous poem called … Read More

Alan G Morris, University of Cape Town The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. In this edited … Read More

James Muzondidya, University of Zimbabwe and Munyaradzi Mushonga, University of the Free State Zimbabweans are set to cast their votes in key parliamentary and local government by-elections on 26 March … Read More