South African author Maxine Case discusses Miriam Tlali and Bessie Head, two former South African women IWP participants. She then gives a brief history of apartheid and closes by stating that she is grateful for the efforts of authors such Tlali...
Brij Maharaj is professor at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal. Dr. Maharaj is South Africa's premier scholar in the areas of the geography of social justice and geography of public policy. He has been invited by the Department of...
Newspaper articles about Nile Kinnick's last football season at the University of Iowa, his subsequent football awards, his participation in the 1940 All Stars game, his Iowa speaking tours, and his enlistment and training in the U.S. Naval Air...
Niq Mhlongo's talk is titled "Still Searching for the Gleam: The Unreal Realities of Joburg City in a Post-Apartheid South African Novel," referring to Johannesburg's lure into fantasies of comfort, convenience, pleasure, and fortune, and discusses...
A TRIUMPHANT LIFE: Helene Scriabine never imagined she would see her Russian homeland again, but thanks to Glasnost the UI professor emeritus is returning to see work begin on a film inspired by her life. -- ENVIRONMENT BECOMES A HOT ISSUE: The...
Peace; War; Defeat; Great Britain -- Military relations; Great Britain -- Politics and government; Great Britain -- Territories and possessions; Great Britain -- Autonomy and independence movements
Peace; War; Great Britain -- Territories and possessions; South Africa -- Politics and government; Great Britain -- Autonomy and independence movements