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This page is a summary of: Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa, October 2016, Wits University Press,
DOI: 10.18772/22016109810.
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ASA Podcast interview Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa (1916) - a hundred years on
The African Studies Association partnered with the Africa Past and Present podcast of Michigan State University at the 59th Annual Meeting of the ASA to launch a podcast series from the conference. My podcast interview focuses on the edited volume 'Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present', published in 2016 - a hundred years since the original publication of Plaatje's landmark text. The volume is a compilation of scholarly essays, historical materials, and reflective and creative pieces that explore the place and relevance of Plaatje's foundational book in its historical context and its contemporary relevance,
'Conversing across a century with thinker, author and politician Sol T Plaatje' - article in The Conversation
A new edited volume, “Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present” – edited by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson and published by Wits University Press – reflects the significance of Native Life and its continuing resonances. At the time of its publication Native Life was widely read and even discussed in the South African House of Assembly. It disappeared out of the public eye only to reappear from the 1960s as historians started to chart the history of black South Africans.
Winner of NIHSS Best Edited Collection Award 2018
“This collection of essays focuses on Sol Plaatje’s native land through a multimodal approach thereby allowing readers from multiple disciplines to access and find relevant pieces of the puzzle. This is done in manner which gives the original text a contemporary feel thereby touching on very critical current themes such as identity, discrimination, media censorship, and gender just to mention a few. The essays are well presented and present a balanced critique of the original text. The book comprises of photographs, maps, copies of old newspapers, poems in different languages. This is innovation at its best. This collection couldn’t have come at the right time and touching on issues of student protests, decolonisation of the curriculum, the radical economic transformation, to mention a few.” – Judging panel comment
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