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Locating 'home': Strategies of settlement, identity-formation and social change among African women in Cape Town, 1948-2000
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)
This dissertation constructs a social history of African women in Cape Town from the vantage point of their varied attempts over the last five decades to map 'home' in the urban setting: in the physical structures of their ...
Popular histories of independence and Ujamaa in Tanzania
(University of Western Cape, 2008)
It is now forty years after the start of African Socialism, or Ujamaa, in Tanzania. This
study examines to what extent Tanzanians still tell their national history in ways which
feature the important themes of social ...
Re-articulating History: Historical Play, Nation, Text .
(University of Western Cape, 2006)
The writing of history in postapartheid South Africa constitutes a crisis for the discipline of history as, I argue, it requires the discipline to confront its role in contributing towards the constitution of the condition ...