Marcus Garvey’s Africa

Late last year I had the opportunity to review College of William and Mary History Professor Robert Vinson’s remarkable new book, The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa. Vinson details both physical and intellectual journeys between South Africa and the United States in the decades before apartheid. His characters […]

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FILM EVENTS / CAPE TOWN AND THE CARIBBEAN

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I’ve blogged here before about the impact of Garveyism on South African cultural and political life, an area ripe for research. Which brings me to “The Prodigal Son,” a film by my friend, director Kurt Orderson. It is an independently produced film that explores the filmmaker’s personal links between the Caribbean and Cape Town. In […]

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