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Call of the wild collector

28 Aug 2020

Walking at ‘botanist pace’ on Mount Terror in South Africa, Dr Ángela Cano likes to stop and smell the succulents. She then measures, photographs...

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One of Sabelo Mlangeni's images going on display at MAA from today

The Longing of Belonging: African photography on show at MAA

13 Jun 2017

A photography exhibition capturing the black South African Zionist community – the most popular religious denomination in the country – opens at the...

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Taskeen Adam and Richmond Juvenile Ehwi

Multiplier effect: the African PhD students who will grow African research

21 Feb 2017

Taskeen Adam and Richmond Juvenile Ehwi are part of a PhD programme that’s enrolling five African students per year for five years, to help train...

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Modern art’s missing chapter

25 Feb 2015

The artworks of black and indigenous peoples – a missing chapter in the history of modern art – is brought into sharp focus in a ‘revelatory’...

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On not forgetting Nadine Gordimer

16 Jul 2014

In this article, originally posted on the CRASSH website, Graham Riach – a PhD candidate in the English Faculty working on South African literature...

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Private collection of Cambridge’s “heretic” bishop goes on show

03 Feb 2014

Letters and publications belonging to John Colenso, a 19th-century missionary who caused outrage for his sympathetic work with Zulus in South Africa...

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South African crime-fiction wave hits Cambridge

20 May 2013

Amid high-profile, real-life murder investigations and growing concerns about public safety, a new breed of crime fiction is sweeping South Africa...

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Artwork by Nondumiso Hlwele

Activist art reflects fight for rights of African AIDS sufferers

22 Jun 2012

A new exhibition launching at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores the psychology and politics of living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa...

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Ostrich Eggs

Egg Cetera #6: Hunting for the world’s oldest decorated eggs

10 Apr 2012

In the final report of our Egg Cetera series on egg-related research, archaeologist Brian Stewart investigates a remarkable technological leap for...

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Danelle van Zyl-Hermann.

The emotional historian?

28 Feb 2012

Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, a Gates scholar with an interest in the emotional history of South Africa, explains why the study of society's sentiments...

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Michael on the banks of the Limpopo River

'Extreme Sleepover #7’ - on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River

28 Dec 2011

In the seventh of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, architect Michael Ramage travels to South Africa to build strength out of...

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Ukwazana Programme posters

Confronting homophobia in South Africa

27 Sep 2011

Cambridge academic Dr Andrew Tucker champions a direct approach to challenging the homophobia that destroys so many lives in South Africa. He has...

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