This morning South Africa woke to the sad news of the country’s first two deaths due to Covid-19 as we entered the first day of a 21 day lockdown (later in the day the death toll was reduced to 1 after one deceased’s body tested negative). Some called …
In 2015 and 2016 students at South African universities campaigned under the banner #FeesMustFall for the abolition of tuition fees. It was widely reported that students were pushing for far-reaching change: Twenty-five years after the end of apartheid rule they were calling for the decolonisation of the country’s education …
I arrived in Namibia in the early southern winter of 1990, just over two months after the country’s day of independence. Those were exhilarating times. Wherever I went, Namibians hummed with excitement – the young and the old, urbanites and rural dwellers, the poor and the well-off, those who had …
Me: Okay, so we learn from anthropologists like Appadurai, and others, that critically speaking, globalisation isn’t a one-way street. On the other hand, people often are acutely aware that cultural imperialism is still a reality, right? What about Facebook, Twitter and Co? Aren’t the social media also a …
Steven Robins’ long-term project of tracing his family’s past from South Africa to Berlin and back has recently taken a productive new turn with the opening of an extraordinary exhibition at the Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain Museum in Berlin.
The exhibition, conceived by Stellenbosch University Anthropologist Robins and the …