...John Higgins Duke University Press 2000 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 103 of 237 Academic Freedom in the New South Africa John Higgins Recently, I...

...Abdulkarim Mustapha Constituting Negative Geopolitics: Memoriality and Event in The World and Africa (1946) Abdulkarim Mustapha In certain political and intellectual circles, it has now become more amenable to engage in reflection on...

...Anthony Bogues Duke University Press 2007 South Africa: On Becoming an Ordinary Country The Landing It was July 2006, and as the flight from London began to touch down at Cape Town International Airport, a flood of political memories returned. April 1994 was the South...

...Paul A. Bové Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013. Tony Bogues, a member of the boundary 2 Collective, was in South Africa, watching the endless coverage of the news and of Mandela’s life. Bogues had met Mandela during his time with the Jamaican government of Michael Manley, and he has spent...

...Ahmed Jdey History has its own laws and its own tricks. Dictators, who are inherently antihistorical, do not realize it; yet humanity, in its rich and exciting trajectory, continues to instruct the great dictators and despots of the world about the force of history, in Africa as well as Asia, in...

... well as the confluence of left forces into the Alliance of the Socialist Forces. The dialogue explores the spirit of defiance and the regeneration of social connections in the Egyptian movement, situates the current struggles in the context of the politics of Egypt and the geopolitics in North Africa...

... the “Cold War,” Mandela’s imprisonment focused much of the world’s attention on the authoritarian racial system in South Africa—apartheid. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the white settler coun- try, the Union of South Africa, became independent. By then, South Africa was a...

...Joe Cleary © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Mandela, Charisma, and Compromise As the cases of Ireland, Algeria, Palestine, and South Africa will suggest, settler colonies vary widely in history and circumstance, but the problems of decolonization in such formations are...

... carrying an infirm friend to the voting station in Usuthu, in the Natal Province of South Africa, on April 26, 1994. Their determination and hope was galvanized by Mandela. Those images and the inspired hope that fed them had stayed with me until the day when that “Mandela moment” came to North...

...Ruth Y. Y. Hung © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Nelson Mandela F. W. de Klerk is the first president of South Africa whom I knew from TV and remembered. As it turns out, he became the last in the long list of white presidents of South Africa. It was late 1989; I was ten...

... from ten years ago—there to undo the longue durée of the color line of caste—and he agreed. I quote myself, then: Two girls, between eleven and fifteen years of age, show me what they are being taught in primary school. It is a piece about South Africa. They have absolutely no clue at all...

... third part turns to Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of History and Encyclopedia of Philo- sophical Sciences for his general—and generally bleak—account of black Africa. The fourth part turns to a strange passage on Africa and the Africans in Hegel’s ‘‘Philosophy of Naturewhere I see something...

...Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 2 Parts of this article have been published in the Standard (Kenya); and the Sunday Independent (South Africa). © 2014 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 2014 Mandela Memories: An African Prometheus2 I first met Mandela in 1991 in Johannesburg, at the offices of the...

... boardwalks floating over colonies of horseshoe crabs, shields that wag the spines of their tails. For school projects we softened and shaped the bodies of Africas in clay’s oily colors. I laid yarn in the sea to trace the voyage of Vasco da Gama, rolled long clay...

...: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Diop, Boubacar Boris. Africa beyond the Mirror. Trans. Vera Wülfing-Leckie­ and Caroline Beschea-­Fache. Oxfordshire, UK: Ayebia Clarke, 2014. Donoghue, Michael E. Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone. Durham, NC: Duke...

... successful boycott against apart- heid South Africa. Ted Koppel hosted Mandela on June 21, 1990, just four months after his release, at City College of New York in Harlem for a con- boundary 2 41:2 (2014) DOI 10.1215/01903659-2685989 © 2014 by Duke University Press Dayan...

... professor at the Center for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Between 1989–1992, he was special assistant to the late prime minister, Michael Manley, of Jamaica and was a common- wealth observer to the 1994 election in South Africa. Susan Buck-Morss­ is distinguished...

... United States, 1978–2008.” Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. She has worked extensively in South Africa and Southeast Asia, and is the author of numer- boundary 2 43:1 (2016) DOI 10.1215/01903659-­3340877 © 2016 by Duke University Press 252 boundary 2...

... media. She is the author of “Orientalism on the Threshold: Reorienting Heroism in Late Imperial Russia” in boundary 2 and a forthcoming collection of translations of Azeri plays. Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. She has worked extensively in South Africa and...

... 2006 Contributors Anthony Bogues is professor of Africana studies at Brown University and a distin- guished fellow at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is also a visiting professor of intellectual history and political theory at the Center...