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May 31, 2016

Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North

As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and formal racial segregation. Thi...

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Muntu Myeza
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May 27, 2016

Muntu Myeza

President and General Secretary of SASO, Robben Island political prisoner, Secretary General, Publicity Secretary and Pr...

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May 27, 2016

Apartheid The United Nations and the International Community: A Collection of Speeches and Papers E. S. Reddy

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May 27, 2016

United Nations and the African National Congress: Partners in the Struggle against Apartheid E. S. Reddy

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May 27, 2016

Biographical Notes on Indians in South Africa, August 1966

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May 26, 2016

Inside Robben Island (Part 1) by Thami Mkhwanazi, 14 August 1987

MY YEARS ON THE ISLAND Part One: The University behind locked doors April 1980. The Susan Kruger, a tiny Prisons Servi...

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May 26, 2016

Breyten Breytenbach writes to the editor of the Daily Maverick on vanishing UCT artworks and blank minds, South Africa, 11 April 2016

Please allow me yet again to react to the spasms of abject annihilation of sense, meaning and self-respect being played ...

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May 26, 2016

The purpose of the Archie Mafeje Annual Memorial Lecture by Sehlare Makgetlaneng (Pambazuka News), 31 March, 2016

Professor Mafeje contributed enormously to the concrete understanding of the African socio-political and economic situat...

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May 26, 2016

Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Amilcar Cabral

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May 26, 2016

Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral (Monthly Review Press Classic Titles)

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May 26, 2016

From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi: Our Embassy Years during Genocide by Ambassador Robert and Kathleen Tobin Krueger

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May 26, 2016

The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah by Ama Biney

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May 26, 2016

How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde: A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths(The Guardian), 24 May 2016

In a calm morning in March 1968, a shipment carrying the latest Korgs, Moogs and Hammond organs set off from Baltimore h...

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May 25, 2016

German Philosophy 1760-1860 The Legacy of Idealism by Terry Pinkard

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May 25, 2016

Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity (Jewish Lives)

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