African history

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• Homosexuality is Un-African

  
  Sugabelly 2.0 — Authority: 125
  Or so our fellow compatriots would like us to believe. Yoruba: Benin (the country): Akan (Ghana): Igbo( my, my, my - although this is rather vague): Ha! Found it! The Igbo word for gay person - Eke. Problem: What is the tone? I know Eke in one tone is one of the days ...
  7 hours ago

• Video: Interview with Peter Magubane on CNN

  
  Pan Macmillan — Authority: 117
  Peter Magubane, acclaimed South African photographer and author of Man of the People , was the subject of a lengthy CNN “Inside Africa” piece recently. “Photography brought Apartheid to its knees,” says Magubane, detailing how his and others’ images brought the reality of the crisis to the rest of the ...
  1 day ago

• Leftward Ho? Allister Sparks on the Fragile Tripartite Alliance

  
  Jonathan Ball — Authority: 120
  The author of First Drafts presents an analysis of the recent gains and setbacks of the South African left: So the left-wing has made its post-Polokwane challenge to seize control of ANC policy making, and failed.   Or at least not achieved very much. Trevor Manuel remains in his job as Minister of Planning in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Allister Sparks’ First Drafts Launched at Boekehuis

  
  Jonathan Ball — Authority: 120
  Kudos to the intrepid Jo’burgers who ventured out in the freak winter weather for the launch of Allister Sparks’ new book, First Drafts: South African History in the Making last Thursday. But then, this was a special event, featuring Jeremy Gordin, author of last year’s Zuma biography, in a Q&A session ...
  3 weeks ago

• In Which The Law Will Reign Supreme

  
  Sugabelly 2.0 — Authority: 125
  The Igbo tendency towards self-impedance and particularly self-delusion will never cease to amaze me. This of course does not mean that all Igbo people are like this or even that the majority of Igbo people are like this, but let me hold my tongue. (*side eye Igbo girl on Facebook that claims Im a lesbian because I ...
  3 weeks ago

• African Dance – Your Intro Into African Dancing

  
  Very Good Search Info Center — Authority: 145
  African dancing has both historical and social traditions that reflect more significance than those of many other cultures. The dances help celebrate not only special events and festivals, similar to other cultures, but often tell the stories of the nations history. Unwritten oral history, passed through generation ...
  4 weeks ago

• Learn About African Dance

  
  blabstr.com — Authority: 162
  African dancing has both historical and social traditions that reflect more significance than those of many other cultures. The dances help celebrate not only special events and festivals, similar to other cultures, but often tell the stories of the nations history. Unwritten oral history, passed through generation ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Killer Trail: The Voulet-Chanoine Mission

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 534
  The Voulet-Chanoine Mission left Dakar on the coast of French West Africa in the late summer of 1898. They were heading for the Central African region of Lake Chad, with the aim of establishing effective borders between the French and British empires while “pacifying” a notoriously belligerant region. However, the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Book Launch: First Drafts: South African History in the Making by Allister Sparks

  
  Jonathan Ball — Authority: 120
  Jonathan Ball publishers and Boekehuis take pleasure in inviting you to the launch of Allister Spark’s Rough Drafts . No journalist has covered South Africa with the same insight and depth as Sparks. For many years his reporting and opinion pieces have been eagerly sort out by decision makers, analysts and the ...
  4 weeks ago

• New Book from Allister Sparks: First Drafts: South African History in the Making

  
  Jonathan Ball — Authority: 120
  It was Philip Graham , legendary publisher of The Washington Post in the 1960s, who coined the epigram that the journalist’s role is to write “a first rough draft of history”. It is a concept that has long fascinated veteran journalist Allister Sparks, because it means that a collection of those rough drafts ...
  4 weeks ago

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