How women's untold histories shaped South Africa's national poet: Keorapetse Kgositsile with US author Alice Walker, 1996. Anacleto Rapping/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesKeorapetse Kgositsile, the South African-born poet who passed away in 2018, lived in exile in the US from 1962 to 1975 and was at the centre of the country’s 1960s and ’70s Black Arts Movement. Informed by his … [Read more...] about How women’s untold histories shaped South Africa’s national poet | The Conversation
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Secret histories of drugs — legal and illegal — in southern Africa | The Conversation
Secret histories of drugs -- legal and illegal -- in southern Africa: ShutterstockIf you want to score heroin in some of the historically black suburbs, or townships, of Johannesburg, South Africa, you need to find yourself a ‘Snyman’. A ‘Snyman’ is a drug dealer. The word is used in tsotsitaal, the creole, urban dialect that emerged during the … [Read more...] about Secret histories of drugs — legal and illegal — in southern Africa | The Conversation
Southern Africa is hobbled by the language and legacy of its histories | The Conversation
Cattle drink water from an almost dry dam in South Africa. The drought in the region is one of a number of troubling issues that remain largely hidden from public sight. Reuters/Rogan WardOne of the many intriguing ideas of the Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, was this: the limits of my language means the limits of my world. Does this explain the failure to see the … [Read more...] about Southern Africa is hobbled by the language and legacy of its histories | The Conversation
