Autor: Arianna Lissoni

On 8 January 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, the oldest African nationalist organisation on the continent, celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. This historic event has …

A detailed account of the incredibly influential Soweto Student Uprising of 1976 The Soweto Student Uprising of 1976 was a decisive moment in the struggle against apartheid. It marked the expansion o …

The bantustans – or ‚homelands‘ – were created by South Africa’s apartheid regime as ethnically-defined territories for Africans. Granted self-governing and ‚independent‘ status by Pretoria, they aim …

The bantustans – or ‚homelands‘ – were created by South Africa’s apartheid regime as ethnically-defined territories for Africans. Granted self-governing and ‚independent‘ status by Pretoria, they aim …

This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa’s oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in which the past persists into the present Falling Monum …

Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid interrogates how, in the era of decolonisation, post-apartheid South Africa reckons with its past in o …

On 8 January 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, the oldest African nationalist organisation on the continent, celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. This historic event has …

The Soweto Student Uprising of 1976 was a decisive moment in the struggle against apartheid. It marked the expansion of political activism to a new generation of young activists, but beyond that it i …