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Writing South Africa Now is a collective of research students and scholars dedicated to celebrating the South African literary landscape.

University of Cambridge
Joined November 2012
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Statement from University of Cambridge in support of Lola Olufemi @CUSUWO in reaction to today's media coverage.
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Don't take the Telegraph story on Cambridge at face value - check out @PriyamvadaGopal twitter feed and thread below. The knee-jerk racism and fabricated outrage/drama in the Telegraph and Daily Mail today are outrageous and on par for them xitter.gq/PriyamvadaGopal/status…
Thread. I hadn't seen the Telegraph cover, hrrifically racist and false. Let me now release some snippetes from my convo with the journalist. Thank god for my rule that all interviews must be written.
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Please RT: Registration now open for our first @cultcommwar workshop @RAIOxford on 10 Nov. Free & open to all! bit.ly/2ihZd02
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Pls RT Job Opportunity: Research Associate @kclgeography -Disconnected Infrastructures & Violence Against Women #VAW hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS…
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Thread. Actual Classics of International Struggle/Anti-Colonialism to make up for misleading &selective ones Please contribute. 1. Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth 2. Aimé Cesaire Discourse on Colonialism 3. CLR James The Black Jacobins
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Make sure to check this out, from 16/10 @ St John's Chapel THE BLACK CANTABS PROJECT EXHIBITION shar.es/1VSqsx
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The @MakingBritain #IndiaInBritain exhibition has just gone up at London Bridge Pier come and find us there over the next week.
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Co-curated by CMLC director @LaraFeigel, Melancholia now @ KCL's Inigo Rooms. Free, every day except Mondays til 10th Dec.
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Do you have a PhD in Urban Studies or a related field? The last day to apply for @USPUofT's 2 year CLTA is Nov. 1: bit.ly/2yiTnSV
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CAFF is delighted to be sharing with you this year's programme! 16 years screening African films for Cambridge... fb.me/60aFIMyWs
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Delighted to announce Dr @GrahamRiach has won the 2016 Ranger Prize - read his article here pllqt.it/7L7bRd
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Recent Postdoc? We're recruiting now for the Smuts Research Fellowship in African Studies! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/15041/
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Tonight at 6pm - 'Bittersweet: Legacies of Slavery & Abolition in Manchester'. facebook.com/events/10207518… @MAGlearning @UoMNews @Tiwaniart
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September 12, 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the murder of Bantu Stephen Biko in police detention. We remember: chimurengachronic.co.za/
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The traumas we assume refugees leave behind end up being part of daily life in America: buff.ly/2eYXfAI @TempleUnivPress @DukePress
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If you love a syllabus but hate a campus, here is the perfect list for you to read along vicariously this semester. ow.ly/yfoK30f1uUB
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Join our team! Opportunity for Managing Editor - application deadline coming up in a week: africainwords.com/2017/08/17…