Sikelelwa Mashiyi, one of our Master’s students in Anthropology, was the first exchange student to visit the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in November 2018. During her stay, Sikelelwa presented her work on South African Spaza Hip Hop at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies. She also conducted research at the African Music Archives (AMA) at Mainz…

This year has marked the 50th anniversary of the many and varied struggles, protests and uprisings that were led by students and youth across the world in what has become known as “Global 1968”. Throughout 2018 Heike Becker has written about the ’68’ struggles on the African continent. She presented a paper on it in…

Students, accompanied by the Postgraduate Coordinator Dr. Kelly Gillespie, visited four very different museums—the brand new West Coast Fossil Park, the SA Fisheries Museum, the Saldanha Cultural Village, and the !Khwa ttu San Culture Centre—and had a good conversation about the social lives of museums. They stayed at a backpackers in Jacobs Bay, where they…

Kelly Gillespie, who has become a member of the department this year, has recently been invited to join the International Editorial Board of Editors of the journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The journal, which has now been published for over forty years is a key forum for the publication of high quality research in the broad field…