Africa Past and Present: Episode 52

Episode 52 of Africa Past and Present — the podcast about African history, culture, and politics — is now available at: http://afripod.aodl.org 

In this episode, Hlonipha Mokoena (Anthropology, Columbia Univ.) talks about her new book: Magema Fuze: The Making of a Kholwa Intellectual (2011). Mokoena discusses the rise of a black intelligentsia in 19th- and early 20th-century South Africa through the remarkable life of Fuze, the first Zulu-speaker to publish a book in the language: Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona (1922) / The Black People and Whence They Came (1979).