Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦
@drayeshaomar
Senior Lecturer @WitsPolitics | British Academy International Fellow @SOASpolitics |@TheoriaE |Intellectual History | Comparative Political Theory| M&G 200 YSA
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#OTD 60 yrs ago #RivoniaTrialists were given life sentences Sir Stadlen's🎦"Life is Wonderful: #Mandela's Unsung Heroes" tells the incredible stories On #MandelaDay2024 📽️ Film🗣️Q&A w.Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦,GuyFred & A to the S 📍Union Chapel London 18 July 18.30 🎟️ bit.ly/ucmandela
Honourable Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 is duly elected President of the Republic of South Africa during the National Assembly of the 7th Parliament. #7thParliament
Friends of Birzeit University Fobzu supports the right to education and its role in the creation of a free and flourishing Palestine. As a Fobzu fellow for 2024 academic scholars Mezna Qato, Abdel Razzaq Takriti عبدالرزاق التكريتي and professors from universities in Gaza have educated us on the ongoing
You might think you know Marx and his work, but you won't really know either till you read Bruno Leipold's new book Citizen Marx. One of the few books that delivers on everyone of its promises—and then some! press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
This week on The Briefing Room with David Aaronovitch - bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… - expert analysis from David Everatt Wits School of Gov Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 Rohan Venkat Louise Tillin. Listen at 4pm today on BBC Radio 4 and on BBC Sounds
Next Wednesday, 17 July, join us at Wits University for an exciting discussion on researching elections in Africa with two brilliant scholars, Gabrielle Lynch & Michael Wahman. They'll be talking elections and research methods, and it promises to be a great discussion! Wits Politics
I wrote a short essay on Iran's recent presidential election for New Left Review's Sidecar newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/… #IranElection2024 #iran
An incredible service of thanksgiving in celebration of South Africa’s 30 years of democracy at Westminster Abbey, London today. With moving remarks by HE Minister: International Relations and Cooperation and renditionsof Shosholoza, Nkosi Sikele’ iAfrika and Uxolo (by Todd Matshikiza).
Huge thanks to Africa Is a Country for the chance to write about how anti-colonial propaganda writers engaged with their audiences - and, of course, for the excuse to solve some of Maya Angelou's old puzzles...
READ an EXTRACT | A new look at Rick Turner’s political philosophy is News24’s Book of the Month for August news24.com/life/books/ext… via News24 🇿🇦 John Sanni Christine Hobden Prof Lawrence Hamilton 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 🇧🇷 🇮🇳 Gideon van Riet 🇿🇦 Laurence Piper
#OTD 1962 #NelsonMandela arrested at Howick, starting 27yr jail term. A pivotal moment in struggle history On #MandelaDay, in collab Union Chapel London & Union Chapel Church we invited Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 A to the S & GuyFred to reflect on learnings fromSir Nick Stadlen's📽️. More in blog 🔗⬇️
Great to see this chapter in print from the new volume on Rick Turner. Wits Politics SOAS Politics
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi has a new article exploring the first translations and reception of Antonio Gramsci into Persian published in South Atlantic Quarterly: tinyurl.com/2shxu3j7
Hey all! Luke Lavender and I have organised an ECR political theory grant writing workshop in London in October (funded by PSA Political Thought specialist group). Location TBA, but the eventbrite below will have all information on as soon as is possible! Please do come along! eventbrite.co.uk/e/networking-a…
in the new issue of Radical Philosophy I review Hagar Kotef, Adam Shatz, Mahmood Mamdani and Jonny Steinberg with an eye on how they think about the place of violence in the dismantling of settler colonialism radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/how…