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Sahara Today Workshop, 8-10 September 2011

29 August 2011

The internal social, economic, and political dynamics within the Sahara have been areas of increasing interest for scholars, who have challenged previous views of the Sahara as the no-mans-land between North Africa and “black Africa”. In recent decades the Sahara has once again become a space for political contestations and connections between regions to its northern and southern shores.

The workshop hopes to explore some of the political and other processes at work in the contemporary Sahara, drawing on the expertise of scholars from the region and outside it.
Dates: Thursday and Friday, September 8- 9, 2011. Venue: the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) Seminar room, 4th floor Oppenheimer Institute Building, University of Cape Town.

There will also be a public lecture by Dr. Larbi Sadiki (University of Exeter) on “North Africa between two revolutions” which will take place on the evening of the 8th of September at 6pm at the same venue.

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Calligraphic Africa: A Personal Perspective

15 June 2011

This Tombouctou series, entitled “Calligraphic Africa”, featured an interesting range of conversations.  The most common thread amongst the various talks probably being books.  When I asked Shamil Jeppie about the lecture series he said this was to inform some research he was doing on the book.  What did it mean to me? 

A Mozambican Researcher at the Cape: My experience at UCT

1 June 2011

As a team member of the Northern Mozambique Arabic Manuscript Project at University Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique, I was invited to visit the University of Cape Town through a scholarship sponsored by the Tombouctou Manuscript Project at UCT, to fill an academic program including seminars, methodological classes and English classes during six weeks.