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    • Incomplete histories: Steve Biko, the politics of self-writing and the apparatus of reading 

      Lalu, Premesh (Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 2004)
      This paper gathers together deliberations surrounding Steve Biko’s I Write What I Like as it simultaneously registers the critical importance of the text as an incomplete history. Rather than presupposing the text as a ...
    • Insights and current debates on community engagement in higher education institutions: Perspectives on the University of the Western Cape 

      Bidandi, Fred; Ambe, Anthony Nforh; Mukong, Claudia Haking (SAGE Publications, 2021)
      This study investigated the insights and current debates on community engagement in higher education institutions with specific reference to the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa. The article argues ...
    • Inxeba (The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture 

      Scott, Lwando (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
      This article focuses on the controversy caused by the release of the film Inxeba (The Wound). Inxeba depicts a complex intersection of rites of passage, masculinities, queerness and the relationships between men in a ...
    • Journeys from the horizons of history: Text, trial and tales in the construction of narratives of pain 

      Lalu, Premesh; Harris, Brent (Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 1996-10)
      This article draws inspiration from Jauss's theorisation of the concepts of horizon, reception, and construction. The problem we confront relates to the way we receive, interpret, and apply texts without cognisance of ...
    • Little Amal 

      Lalu, Premesh (José Frantz, 2020)
      When South Africa celebrated Heritage Day this year, Boschendal Estate in Franschhoek provided an ideal backdrop for the first steps of Little Amal, a three-metre puppet created by the Handspring Puppet Company from South ...
    • Looking back 

      Odendaal, André (José Frantz, 2020)
      Professors Patricia Hayes and Premesh Lalu have in this edition of Signals provided useful insight into the importance of theory, history, archives and the humanities in South Africa, and how they can help “assist us in ...
    • Martyrdom, violence, and dignity 

      Brown, Alease (Escola Superior Teologia, 2019)
      This article reconsiders historically based arguments for Christian martyrdom, subjecting the tradition to an analysis suited to liberation of the marginalized. It begins with a description of the historical development ...
    • Memory burns 

      Hayes, Patricia (José Frantz, 2020)
      Among the photograph collections at Mayibuye, especially from IDAF, are numerous contact sheets. The contact sheet was part of the toolkit of the photographer in the time of analogue photography. The contact sheet is ...
    • Memory, oral history and conservation at Robben Island's Bluestone Quarry 

      Lusaka, Mwayi (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      This article is a critical examination of a conservation project on the restoration of the Stone Wall at Bluestone Quarry on Robben Island, a world heritage site. The project attracted different stakeholders with diverse ...
    • Nationalism and exile in an age of solidarity: Frelimo–ZANU relations in Mozambique (1975–1980) 

      Munguambe, Clinarete Victoria Luis (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      This article contributes to our knowledge on the intricate relations between host governments and liberation movements and on the workings of transnational military partnerships in the anticolonial struggles of the 1970s, ...
    • Navigating ethnicity, nationalism and Pan-Africanism – Kimbanguists, identity and colonial borders 

      Vähäkangas, Mika (AOSIS, 2021)
      The Kimbanguists, whose church is based on the healing and proclamation ministry of Simon Kimbangu in 1921 in the Belgian Congo, challenge colonially defined borders and identities in multiple ways. Anticolonialism is ...
    • On uncertainty 

      Taylor, Jane (University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities, 2018)
      There is some uncertainty written into the form of this paper because, while it seeks to use scholarly procedures in engaging with the philosophical questions provoked by Ludwig Wittgenstein's late speculative essay On ...
    • Performing the struggle against apartheid opposing apartheid on stage: King Kong the musical 

      Layne, Valmont Edward (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
      Tyler Fleming’s book provides an account of the first production of ‘King Kong’ — a musical theatre production based on the life of the boxer Ezekiel Dlamini — in 1959. This musical rankled the apartheid state partly ...
    • A “poor man’s pleasure”: The cinema house and its publics in twentieth century South Africa 

      de Almeida, Fernanda Pinto (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
      What do cinema houses have to tell us about the experience ofcollective leisure in early twentieth-century South Africa? Thisarticle considers how the cinema house points to unprecedentedsocial conditions that allowed the ...
    • Religious leaders as agents of Lgbtiq inclusion in east Africa 

      Van Klinken, Adriaan; Bompani, Barbara; Parsitau, Damaris (Oxford University Press, 2023)
      When Ugandan parliamentarians passed a new Anti-Homosexuality Bill in March 2023, they reportedly did so under pressure from, and with the enthusiastic support of, religious leaders.1 In other African countries, too, recent ...
    • The ‘Rough edge of deterritorialisation’: Contemplation 

      van Bever Donker, Maurits (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      To frame this paper, which given its focus on the installation Red should ostensibly deal with a question of aesthetics and technology, with an epigraph that situates the contemplative capacity of a cow alongside the echo ...
    • Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit 

      Lalu, Premesh (University of the Western Cape, 2000)
      This paper deals with cognitive failures and historiographical blind spots in legal and historical representations of the colonised subject. It concerns an archival fragment from the seventeenth century - the suicide of a ...
    • Staging historical argument: History I at the University of the Western Cape 

      Lalu, Premesh (Routledge, 1996)
      This article focuses on the lecture-room debates which have been the central feature of the first-year history course at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) since 1993. The UWC History Department takes the position ...
    • Uncontained and the Constraints of Historicism as Method: A reply to Mario Pissarra 

      Grunebaum, Heidi (Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI), 2013)
      Mario Pissarra’s rigorous and considered critical review of Uncontained: Opening the Community Arts Project archive (2012) marks a significant contribution to starting a discussion that the book and exhibition aimed to ...
    • Understanding refugee durable solutions by international players: Does dialogue form a missing link? 

      Bidandi, Fred (Cogent OA, 2018)
      This study evaluates durable solutions in relation to refugees from East Africa. It particularly focuses on the Great Lakes countries of Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The study is based on the ...