Globalisation and New Identities - A View from the Middle, by Peter Alexander, Marcelle C. Dawson, Meera Inchharam tshivenda

Globalisation and New Identities - A View from the Middle, by Peter Alexander, Marcelle C. Dawson, Meera Inchharam tshivendaGlobalisation and new identities a view from the middle brings together 12 ethnographic studies of post apartheid South Africa, which focus on the emergence of new South African identities with both strong local characteristics and powerful global influences. It shows how, in different ways, through adoption, adaptation, avoidance and resistance South Africans are responding to the forces and connections of globalisation. These ethnographies refuse to

Learning to cherish those treasures

Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the US and Algeria in fabricating terrorism to justify a new ‘Saharan front’ in Washington’s War on Terror

A marvelous invitation to anyone with an interest in creativity

I sent most of the scribbles to friends

a local hero of the Resistance

Amagama abalulekile asetshenziswa nsukuzonke

1980 edition

Nyarota fervently believed that his children would know the freedom of democracy that he himself had been denied in colonial Rhodesia before Mugabe became independent Zimbabwe’s first head of state in 1980

The African Union and its Institutions is a particularly timely and welcome addition to the pioneering literature about this young and potentially powerful institution

Criticism has been voiced that government and society are gradually transforming in South Africa

Caroline Young looks at the history and social context of the costumes through stories from the production

After a brief return to Cape Town