Category: Africa

  • Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race Oxford University Press 2016-10-31 376 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780190625696 Edited by: H. Samy Alim, Professor of Education; Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics (by courtesy) Stanford University John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities Stanford University Arnetha F. Ball,…

  • Trevor Noah: The First Time I Drove a Car. (I Was 6.) The New York Times 2016-10-25 Trevor Noah Trevor Noah, at 3 years old, with his mother. Trevor Noah is the host of “The Daily Show” and the author of “Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood” (Spiegel & Grau). This is…

  • Mixed race children celebrate their ‘cultural cocktail’ heritage Times Live Johannesburg, South Africa 2016-09-23 Nomahlubi Jordaan, Courts and Law Reporter Food‚ language and tradition of diverse cultures are the essence of the heritage of children born from multiracial families. Mark Andrew Sunners‚ a hip hop producer‚ was born in Liverpool in England from a white…

  • A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find The New York Times 2016-09-21 Carl Zimmer The KhoiSan, hunter-gatherers living today in southern Africa, above, are among hundreds of indigenous people whose genetic makeup has provided new clues to human prehistory. Credit: Eric Laforgue/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images Modern humans evolved in Africa roughly 200,000…

  • The love story that shocked the world BBC News 2016-09-14 When an African prince and a white middle-class clerk from Lloyd’s underwriters got married in 1948, it provoked shock in Britain and Africa. Seretse Khama met Ruth Williams while he was a student at Oxford University. After his studies, he was supposed to go home…

  • Episode 21 w/ Sheila Ruiz, Head of Programmes Blacticulate 2016-03-07 Ade Bamgbala, Host Sheila Ruiz, Head of Programmes, Partnerships and Operations Royal African Society, London, England Sheila Ruiz This was another great episode where Sheila and Mangaliso (her newborn) give great advice on how to create a successful event, the challenges, internship platforms out there…

  • This article is motivated by a concern about the increasing embrace of apolitical and ahistorical notions of racial “mixedness” and “impurity.” It draws on recent examples from the United States and South Africa in order to direct attention to the difficulties of identifying logics that, on the face of it, seem to evade conventional claims…

  • The Myth of White Purity and Narratives That Fed Racism in South Africa The Wire 2016-06-18 Nicky Falkof, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa An apartheid-era sign from South Africa. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The rhetoric of racial purity is full of suggestive terms like illness, weakening and dilution. These…

  • Marrying Black Girls for Guys who aren’t Black Jacana Media October 2013 256 pages 198 x 130mm Paperback ISBN: 9781920601287 d-PDF ISBN: 9781920601294 ePUB ISBN: 9781920601300 mobi file ISBN: 9781920601317 Hagen Engler White guy Hagen Engler had been married to his black wife for a couple of years before he realised he was still a…

  • End of Whiteness: Satanism & Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa Jacana Media March 2016 240 pages 235x155mm Paperback ISBN: 9781431423279 Nicky Falkof, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Satanism and family murder – bizarre responses to fear of change. This book examines the effects that apartheid may…