Speech to the Science Graduation Ceremony of the University of Witwatersrand, 2008
Good Evening. I will use my own life history tonight to argue that it is your duty as scientists never to allow good science to be used for bad purposes. You have a moral duty. You know the difference between good and evil. You must do your best to ensure that your science has good outcomes for […]
Three Men, A Fence & A Dead Body
Sean O’Toole travels to the northern reaches of Limpopo where South Africa meets Zimbabwe. The border fence, once dubbed the snake of fire because of its lethal charge, is no longer live but remains a living monument that delineates ‘here from there’. The fence #1 You forget the heat. I am back in Musina […]
A Fieldguide for Female Interrogators
by Coco Fusco (illustrations: Dan Turner) This graphic story previously appeared in print in Chimurenga 15: The Curriculum is Everything. Available here. Images copyright ©2008 by Coco Fusco. Reprinted with the permission of Coco Fusco and Seven Stories Press.
The Way Back Home Article
The Way Back Home On the death of a close relative, Niq Mhlongo discovers that regardless of where life, love or circumstance takes you, at the heart of the matter of where you will return is the place from which you came. Where there’s no will, there’s no way to reconcile the dead and the […]
Graveyards, monuments and African Studies
by Nicole Sarmiento. “I have argued that the problem with this course is the result mainly of what the course team left out of the course, not of what they included in it. My critique is mainly what they did not teach, not about what they did teach.” – Mahmood Mamdani, “Is African studies to be […]