Ties that Bind (ePub)

culture.

Franco Barchiesi is an associate professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University, a fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois
Institute at Harvard University, and a visiting research associate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Bridget Kenny is an associate professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She works on labor, gender, and consumption, with specific focus on service work, precarious employment, and political subjectivity.

Daniel Magaziner is associate professor of History at Yale University. He teaches and researches the intellectual history of twentieth-century Africa and the African diaspora. His new book on art education under apartheid, The Art of Life in South Africa, will be published in 2016.

M. Neelika Jayawardane is associate professor of English at the State University of New York-Oswego, and an honorary research associate at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Tsitsi Jaji is an associate professor of English and African & African American Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music and Pan-African Solidarity, an account of how African American music and literature contributed so profoundly to African notions of solidarity in the twentieth century.

Mosa Phadi is completing her doctoral studies at the University of Johannesburg. She is a researcher at the Public Affairs Research Institute affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand.

Nomancotsho Pakade has worked extensively in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex sector in South Africa and is passionate about the narratives of Black African women’s lived experiences. She holds a Master’s in Research Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Molemo Moiloa is a member of MADEYOULOOK is a Johannesburg-based collaborative who work on tongue-in-cheek interventions that encourage a re-observation of and de-familiarization with the ordinary. Their artworks engage daily urban routine, lived, and practiced by people every day.

Nare Mokgotho is a member of MADEYOULOOK is a Johannesburg-based collaborative who work on tongue-in-cheek interventions that encourage a re-observation of and de-familiarization with the ordinary. Their artworks engage daily urban routine, lived, and practiced by people every day.

Frank B. Wilderson III is an award-winning writer, activist, and critical theorist who spent five-and-a-half years in South Africa, when he was one of two Americans who held a position as an elected officer in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid. He worked clandestinely for Umkhonto we Sizwe.