Southern Africa Seminar Working Papers

We are pleased to place online a selection of working papers presented at the Southern Africa Seminar Series. These represent exciting work-in-progress from new and established scholars. Please note that all papers included here are not to be cited without permission from the author.

1. Joel Cabrita, Everyday Literacy: How Handwriting and Printing Presses Make Power in the South African Nazaretha Church' , paper delivered at Southern Africa: History, Culture and Society Seminar Series, SOAS, 4 December 2009.
2. Ian Macqueen, 'Black Consciousness in Dialogue: Steve Biko, Richard Turner and the ‘Durban Moment’ in South Africa, 1970 – 1974' , paper delivered at Southern Africa: History, Culture and Society Seminar Series, SOAS, 4 December 2009.
3. Busani Mpofu, ' 'The Urban Poor and the 'Rebuilding' Programme in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 2005-7 ,paper delivered at Southern Africa: History, Culture and Society Seminar Series, Birkbeck, 26 February 2010.
4. Paul Jenkins, 'paper_Jenkins, paper delivered at Southern Africa: History, Culture and Society Seminar Series, Birkbeck, 26 February 2010.
5. Lizzy Attree, AIDS and the City -- Shared Spaces of Infection , paper delivered at Southern Africa: History, Culture and Society Seminar Series, Birkbeck, 30 April 2010. 
6. Tom Lodge, Sharpeville and Memory , paper delivered at Southern Africa: History, Culture and Society Seminar Series, Birkbeck, 9 December 2011.
7. Rachel Ibrick, The Time of Mourning: The Politics of Commemorating the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda , paper delivered at Southern Africa: History, Culture and Society Seminar Series, Birkbeck, 9 December 2011.