Professor Chitja Twala, University of the Free State, will lead a panel discussion about the journal of the ANC in South Africa and the graduate student journal, Ufahamu, at UCLA.

Thursday, October 5, 2017
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room 23167, West Classroom
UCLA Young Research Library
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Sechaba was the official organ (journal) of the African National Congress. The journal will be discussed in a roundtable which will include former and current editors (Janice Levi, Madina Thiam and Nana Osei-Opare) of Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies, a publication of Africanist graduate students at UCLA. Sechaba began publication in 1967 by the ANC, Ufahamu in 1970 by the UCLA African Activists Association. Copies of the first publications of both journals will be brought to the YRL room by Ruby Bell-Gam, UCLA Africanist bibliographer.

Chitja Twala is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Free State (UFS). Chitja is currently collaborating with Professor Peter Limb at Michigan State University on a book project on the history of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Free State from 1912 to 2012. As a historian he has conducted extensive archival research and has published widely on the history of the liberation movements with special reference to the ANC. He is the author of six chapters in The Road to Democracy in South Africa: Vol. 4 (1970-1980) and the Road to Democracy in South Africa: Vol. 6 (1990-1996). Chitja has published 62 peer-reviewed articles in local and international journals and collaborated with the leading academics including Professor Leo Barnard (UFS) and Professor Jeremy Seekings at the University of Cape Town. He is an editorial board member of the Journal for Contemporary History and Yesterday and Today.

Cost : Free and open to the public; pay-by-space and all-day parking ($12) available in lot 3.

http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa

Download file: Chitja-Twala-Flyer-10-5-17-final-fz-hgn.pdf

Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, Department of History, Bunche Center for African American Studies, Department of African American Studies, International Engaged Social Sciences Summer Mentorship Program.