Great opportunity for researchers examining immigration detention: Edinburgh Uni offering 2 full-time research fellow positions, each 2.5 years either on detention in the US & in Australia. Application deadline 4 August 2023: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… ANZSOC Crimmigration and Border Control Group @BorderCrim

A people without memory are in danger of losing their soul. The past is not dead. It's not even the past. Lest we forgot our Heroes and Heroines who died for Zim during the liberation struggle. Let's protect our legacy by voting for H.E President Mnangagwa and the Second Republic

This morning Dr Joseph Makanda presented his paper titled “South Africa or We Die : Narratives of Irregular Burundian, Congolese, Malawian Mozambican and Zimbabwean Migrants on the Organisation and Structure of Irregular Migration to South Africa.”

You are kindly invited to the seminar titled: "The African Literature Debate". Date: 30 August 2023 Time: 16:00 - 17:00 (SAST) Format: Zoom RSVP on forms.gle/QTTNsV3Ak9atrP… to receive the Zoom details.

I wrote these words when I was first hospitalized for my mental illness 23 years ago, and the kid who wrote this is still helping me now.

We’re being manipulated to think migrants are a threat in order to justify coming out of the ECHR - but this would leave us ALL vulnerable and without protection. And while the targeting and scapegoating STARTS with the most vulnerable it doesn’t end there!!! #bbcqt

Yes 🥺 I’d never been outside of the EC and my mom wanted to show me Joburg for my 9th birthday 😂 We got on a bus, she woke me up at midnight to say Happy Birthday after she had gotten me a toy and some food from the garage we had stopped at. I’ll always remember that birthday

Tsitsi Dangarembga's THE BOOK OF NOT and NERVOUS CONDITIONS have now been translated into Shona. I translated THE BOOK OF NOT into HAKUNA ZVAKADARO while Ignatius Mabasa translated NERVOUS CONDITIONS into KUSAGADZIKANA. The translations were published by House of Books.

Can we talk about how difficult it is to be the first person in your family to receive a Ph.D. Like no one truly understands how academic works. No one understands how you have to publish or not with or without a job. Hiring process. Very little support. It’s not their fault but

The only time I saw Eddison Zvobgo in the flesh I was on my way to Rezende Bus Terminus to catch a bus home on a busy Friday afternoon in 1992. His black ministerial Mercedes Benz was parked near Kingston Bookshop along Kwame Nkrumah Avenue. The late Masvingo Zanu-PF kingpin

Last week I attended the Inaugural Ubuntu/Hunhu Conference at Africa University in Mutare Zimbabwe. Prof.Arthur Mutambara gave the Keynote Address on the 2nd Day of the Conference whose theme was Ubuntu/Hunhu In the 4th Industrial Revolution! His closing remarks were very

African American chattel Slavery & Irish American Indentured Servitude. As Irish Americans became plantation overseers & policemen, Black Americans remained enslaved & subjugated as their unpaid & forced labor would lay the foundation for white American imperialism.

It all started in 1948 when Helen read "The Power of Positive Thinking" by Norman Vincent Peale. She was fascinated by one idea: **Thoughts create outcomes.** She decided to test this. What happened next was beyond belief.

Dave Chappelle's monologue!

Take this as a motivation for the new week

Disprin Only thing we needed👇🏾 but then...

This is Phila Ndwandwe. In 1985, Phila was recruited into the ANC. She became an MK fıghter. 3 years later, she was abducted in Swaziland by Apartheid police. She suffered unspeakable hơrror and was tơrtured, in an effort to turn her into an informer. One always gets the sense

While some Afrikaaners are spreading misinformation, here is what one is doing. Every corporate leader in South Africa can learn a lot from Rassie Erasmus. I know, I keep saying. The man has an almost instinctive compassionate grasp of our history, its complexities and