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Insurrections III: The Storming
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A Failure of Economic Policy: Lessons from Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation and Dollarization
Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad, Modernism and Post-Colonialism
LURLAP Highlights, April 2015
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2014
Democracy, Land and Liberation in Africa Today: Bridging Past and Present Scholarship
Colonial Linguistics: Knowledges and Epistemes
Negotiating Survival Strategies: Small holder farmers speak out Negotiating Survival Strategies by Janice Busingye
The End of The Developmental State, edited by Michelle Williams
Interviews with Neville Alexander: The Power of Languages against the Language of Power, Edited by Brigitta Busch, Lucijan Busch and Karen Press
Popular Culture … Domestic Violence Legislation: Marrying Research and Advocacy by Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Remember Marikana
Reflections on South Africa’s Agrarian Questions after 20 Years of Democracy
2014 Overview
Prof. Allison Drew: Visions of Liberation - The Algerian war of independence and its South African reverberations
Jacana Media and the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town invite you to the book launch of Mandela's Kinsmen by Timothy Gibbs
African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health: Diseases & Treatments in South Africa by Prof. William Beinart
Articulate While Black: Barack Obama and the Shifting Racial Politics of “Sounding Presidential” in the New America by Associate Professor H. Samy Alim
2013
VISTAS – A project by Raél Jero Salley
TO LET by The Burning Museum Arts Collective
Remembering Neville Alexander – Language, Power and Transformation
Marikana Mineworkers Speak!
Debate – A century on from the 1913 Land Act : Where to from here?
women.object.corpse exhibition
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