Afrikaans is very much a black language. The apartheid government’s ploy to construct it as a “white language”, with a “white history”, denied the commonality of the language across race and class.
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The African Union sees Africa as a sealed off geographic entity. Yet it remains remarkably quiet about the many bits of Africa that are geographically part of it but do not consider it their home.
Muslim women are often criticised for their lack of political involvement, but Algerian women have embraced both anti-colonial and feminist movements.
The rise of Islamic State and its declaration of the caliphate can be read as part of a wider story that has unfolded since the formation of modern nation states in the Muslim world.
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Emeritus Professor of Literature and Literary Theory, Department of Afrikaans, University of Pretoria
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Geography, Keele University
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Professor, Lancaster Law School, Lancaster University
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Research Fellow, Cambridge Muslim College & Teaching Fellow, SOAS, University of London
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Research fellow, Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), United Nations University
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Associate research scientist, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor
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Professor of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer, Culture and Media department, Birkbeck, University of London
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Director of African Studies, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Kalamazoo College
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer of Music, Kabarak University
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Research fellow, University of the Free State