ABSTRACT Premesh Lalu's' In the Event of History'was written in 2000, before the
publication of his first book, The Deaths of Hintsa: Postapartheid South Africa and the Shape …

There's no question that the publication of Premesh Lalu's The Deaths of Hintsa is an event.
A candidate for The Sunday Times's 2010 Alan Paton Prize for non-fiction, 1 and already the …

In 1996, as South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was beginning its hearings,
Nicholas Gcaleka, a healer diviner from the town of Butterworth in the Eastern Cape …

ABSTRACT In The Deaths of Hintsa: Postapartheid South Africa and the Shape of Recurring
Pasts, Premesh Lalu claims to offer a critique of apartheid's colonial past. Emblematic of this …

The article explores the political uses of the memory of the Popular Movement for the
Liberation of Angola's (MPLA's) heroic combatant Hoji ya Henda from the independence of …

If history is always also a product of the imagination, as has been claimed by scholars who
have inaugurated the literary turn in history, how is it that history, as a disciplinary inquiry …

This article analyses the language of memory in Lalonde's Sept Lacs plus au Nord by
applying a semiotic reading to the text, combined with an anthropological and sociological …

Seetsele Modiri Molema's Sol T. Plaatje: Morata Wabo is the first biography of Solomon
Plaatje written in his mother-tongue, Setswana, and the only book-length biography written …

This article reflects on the ways that individuals, communities, and political organizations
sometimes invest in an understanding of history based on their lived experiences or, to …

Abstract" One may make one's own history", said Marx," but not in the circumstances of one's
own choosing". The argument in this paper is that, the production of particular versions of …