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I am a second year graduate student in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of Louisville. My particular interests in South Africa lie in anti-apartheid activism, women’s movements, and community organizing. I am especially…

I am a second year graduate student in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Louisville. For the last two years I have worked with the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research and, as a result have become very interested in racial…

My name is Jyler Donovan and I am recently graduated from the University of Louisville with a Bachelor of Arts in Women's and Gender Studies and Pan African Studies. I am most excited about learning how to be a global global citizen! I am excited to…

My name is Amina Ahmed and I am a senior at the University of Louisville. I am a student of History, with a special focus and interest in African Studies. During this trip I hope to actively engage and contribute to the development of cultural…

In both graduate school and her professional role, I live, reads, and writes for social change.  I dig learning about social justice and social movement history and the many brave people that have stirred up change.  While in South Africa I am most…

I came to South Africa conditioned by a concern with discerning the influence of Gandhi on the national liberation struggle in the country. Since I was from India, Gandhi was my primary link in interpreting the rest of the world, as I discovered his…

All of my time in South Africa so far has been spent thinking about conciousness, the mind, and the ability of people to colonize and/or decolonize their thinking. Meaning, why do people in this present moment in South African culture approach the…

The ways people are suspicious of one another around here is phenomenal. Not in a good way, just in an absolutely devestating and facinsting way. Everywhere on the street, in Observstory where we are staying, people look at you like you are an…

       Tonight was an important night in demonstrating the important connections between the classroom and the larger world. Last semester, our class discussed the life of Sarah Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman who was sold into slavery and whose body was…

There are fences everywhere. High fences with large gates, on businesses, houses of all sizes, apartment communities, and hotels. Some appear innocent enough, made of decorative wood. Other fences are more obvious in communicating their message: …