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ArticleTeaching South African History in the Digital Age - Collaboration, Pedagogy, and Popularizing History by Jill E. Kelly & Omar Badsha
Abstract: The digitisation of African materials has made it easier than ever for students to engage with primary source documentation and…
ArticleOmar Badsha: an ordinary South African whose struggles and triumphs offer insights into broader social movements—Sean Jacobs reviews Available Light by Daniel Magaziner
Omar Badsha worked exclusively with available light. His approach to photography mirrored his broader approach to life and politics—a …
Theses and DissertationsAfrapix - Social Documentary Photography in 1980s South Africa by Amy McConaghy
LectureRevisiting Grey Street: Phyllis Naidoo as Historian - Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, University of the Western Cape
Phyllis Naidoo, honorary doctorate, acceptance speech at the then University of Durban-Westville (now University of KwaZulu-Natal - UKZN)
Omar Badsha – Political Activist and Cultural Worker
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ArticleSeeing and Being Seen by Patricia Hayes
Official Document - Conference PaperWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
Culture/Creativity/Communism: cultural expression and South Africa’s communist movement by Judy Seidman This paper opens up the question…
Five Questions with Francis Wilson: The History of SALDRU
Teaching South African History in the Digital Age: Collaboration, Pedagogy, and Popularizing History by Jill E. Kelly, Omar Badsha, History in Africa, Volume 0 (2020)
ArticleOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
This moment’s gaping generational divide, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and…
ImagesStaffrider Vol.4 No.4 Mar 1982 - Women in Azania
Photographs from Biddy Partridge and Omar Badsha of Afrapix featured in Staffrider Magazine Vol.4 No.4 March 1982 - Women In Azania
1985 Year of the Youth Calendar
December 1985 Calendar. Black and white photograph of women dancing, by Omar Badsha.
Newspaper clippingsA Call for Unity in the Arts - interview with Omar Badsha, Student Voice, 7 February 1994
Book shows misery of Inanda by Sunday Times, 5 August 1985
Now everyone’s a voter by Kenny Naidoo, 11 September 1989
Omar focuses on forced removals by Shaun Harris, 4 June 1985
The Hidden History of South Africa’s Book and Reading Cultures
South Africa : The Cordoned Heart Poster
Black and white poster. Second half of title in red letters. Photo of men carrying coffins with flowers in top. Exhibition on 4th March at…
Online bookSouth Africa The Condoned Heart - Twenty South African Photographers, edited by Omar Badsha
Letter to Farzanah
Omar Badsha's first book of photographs, Letter to Farzanah was published in 1979 in commemoration of the United Nations declared…
Imijondolo
Published in 1985, Imijondolo, (the isi Zulu word for a shack or informal housing), is Omar Badsha's second book of photographs. Badsha's…
Interview with Omar Badsha by Marian Nur Goni
An email interview with Omar Badsha in 2009 conducted by Marian Nur Goni for a masters theses. Afrapix: Some Questions Email interview…
InterviewsOmar Badsha interviewed by Mary Marshall Clark, Johannesburg, South Africa, 7 August 1999
ArchiveOmar Badsha fax letter from Alex Harris
LettersCapa letter to Omar Badsha
Omar Badsha letter to Anne Hoy
ArticleNichts Wird Uns Trennen Nothing Will Seperate Us – South African Photography and Apartheid
ArticleOmar Badsha: Placing the Collective Above the Individual
LettersOmar Badsha Letter to Minister Botha, 5 May 1986
Audio and Video'La lutte contre l'Apartheid'
Speeches and Public StatementsOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
We are a few days away from the celebration of one of our national holidays, Heritage Day. The opening of this exhibition of photographs by…
ArticleGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
THE ROOM IS deeply silent, but robustly populated. All eyes are focused on the speaker, who is out of your line of sight. In this 1989…
Artist. Activist. Historian. This man is preserving the past to protect the future (beautifulnews.co.za)
Art is an act of resistance. It asserts our agency. Omar Badsha has identified not only as an artist, but an activist for most of his life…