Writing African Women Back into History

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In recognition of Women's History Month and in honor of South African Human Rights Day, this event is a conversation with Stanford University Professor Joel Cabrita around her latest book project, Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala. Regina Twala (1908-60) was a South African writer, anthropologist, social worker and political activist who after her arrest in 1952 for anti-apartheid activities went into exile in neighboring Eswatini. There she became involved in the Pan-African and Independence movements, and in 1960 helped establish the Swaziland Progressive Party. A prolific newspaper columnist, Twala wrote scathing critiques of Swati King Sobhuza's autocratic policies as well as the patriarchal traditional culture that stunted women's ambitions and silenced their voices. As an anthropologist, she conducted extensive research on Swati women negotiating social change, but the work remained unpublished. Professor Cabrita explores the political and institutional ircumstances that thwarted Twala's work from taking its rightful place in the intellectual history of Southern Africa.

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English

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United States

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