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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
16 May 2021
Set in the Eastern Cape (South Africa) of the late 1800s, A sin of omission follows the story of a black South African Anglican deacon, Stephen (Malusie) Mzamane, who has to journey to his mother’s rural home to inform her of his elder brother’s death. A sin of omission is one of six titles which were shortlisted for the Walter Scott Award 2020. The author, Marguerite Poland, who spent her own formative years in the Eastern Cape, is the recipient of two national Lifetime Achievement Awards for English literature. A Sin of Omission is the subject of our Library Highlight.
30 April 2021
Rahmane Idrissa wrote an article about the death of Chad’s late president Idriss Déby from a historical perspective for Sidecar, the blog of New Left Review. 'What did France gain in tirelessly propping up a dictator against the aspirations of his people? Such interests are at first sight hard to perceive. They are certainly not economic.'
30 April 2021
Duncan Money and Limin Teh wrote an annotated bibliography for JSTOR Daily about race and the organisation of labour from a global perspective. It charts the global history of race and labour in the early twentieth century, highlighting the complex ways in which race, labour, and imperialism intersect. The article is available open access.
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11 June 2024