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Routledge Journals is proud to announce the first issue of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies to be published in print and online by Routledge.

Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies

Safundi -- "S" represents "South Africa," "a" stands for "America," and "fundi" comes from the Xhosa verb, "-funda," which translates as "to read/learn."

Safundi is an online community of scholars, professionals, and others interested in comparing and contrasting the United States of America with the Republic of South Africa.

Our journal, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, is the centerpiece of our online community. We believe that analyzing the two countries in a comparative and transnational context enhances our perspective on each, individually. While new comparative research is the focus of the journal, we also publish articles specifically addressing one country, provided the articles are of interest to the comparative scholar. Furthermore, our subject matter is as permeable as any country's border: we will consider research addressing other colonial and postcolonial states in Southern Africa and North America.

Articles that Safundi publishes are academic in nature. Research papers are reviewed as they are submitted. Scholarly essays are welcomed. Any topic may be addressed. We hope to provide our readers with a diverse and insightful collection of articles in each issue.

We publish on a quarterly basis. Our journal is peer-reviewed. Submissions are vetted by the editors-in-chief and the editorial board before they are accepted for publication.

The views expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not of the editors or of Safundi itself.

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April 2001, Issue 05

The Poetics of Politics: Imagi[ni]ng the New South African Nation

By Sabine Marschall
The author investigates how contemporary urban murals of the post-apartheid era contribute to the process of reconciliation and of creating and disseminating a new national identity for South Africa.

Review of Long Night’s Journey Into Day: South Africa’s Search for Truth and Reconciliation

By Ron Krabill
The Oscar-nominated documentary Long Night's Journey into Day provides a compelling view into the impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee on the lives of those who participated in it, both as perpetrators and survivors of gross violations of human rights. What does the film, made by Americans and primarily for Americans, tell us about race relations in the United States and South Africa? The author examines the possibilities and pitfalls of examining the TRC for an American audience.

Access to Higher Education: Race, Resources and Social Exclusion

By Martin Hall
The author outlines the similarities and differences in "affirmative action" decisions in higher education in the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Africa.

Problems in Learning from Traumatic History: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry

By Sara Matthews
The author brings the problem of learning from the past by considering two responses to historical trauma: the trial of Adolf Eichmann and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The author then offers two conceptualizations for thinking about how past trauma might be instructive in our present, and she overviews some of the problems in learning from traumatic pasts.

Michael S. Harper’s Passbook: Africa in Healing Song for the Inner Ear

By Amber Vogel
This essay takes as its starting point the author's interview with the African-American poet Michael S. Harper. The interview -- in which Harper discusses "race rituals," power as a function of the artist, and his own complex connections to Africa -- provides insight into themes of exile, return, and loss threaded through his collection Healing Song for the Inner Ear (1985). Holding particular meaning for Harper are his detention in Soweto in the 1970s and his great-grandfather's work as a medical missionary in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. This essay compares Harper to his contemporary, the photographer Peter Beard, a white American who has lived in East Africa for decades.

The Fulbright Experience: An Incoherent African Perspective

By Keyan Tomaselli
The author informally reflects on his Fulbright experience in the United States.

Comparative Lessons for the Future

By Lynn Huntley
The author describes major global trends that are impacting national efforts to combat racism in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States, and she argues that global manifestations of racism require remedies of commensurate scope.

Academic Freedom in the New South Africa

By John Higgins
The author analyzes academic freedom in South Africa while presenting an argument in support of its continual evaluation. The article is another attempt to suggest that progressive intellectuals can also be interested in academic freedom, and indeed should work to resist its becoming a received idea, either in South Africa or elsewhere.

“Pariahs in the Land of Their Birth in the Search for Identity”: Sol Plaatje and Frederick Douglass

By Peter Midgley
In his book, Native Life in South Africa, Sol Plaatje uses many of the narrative techniques employed by the writers of American slave narratives. This paper compares Plaatje's work with Frederick Douglass' Narrative and explores the similarities and differences in the ways Plaatje and Douglass construct identity.

Gold

By Kristi Bell
The author addresses the socio-economic phenomenon of material objects having the power to hold value and represent the owners' social worth. Finding inspiration in the image of gold itself, the author's intent was to imbue the poem with a sense of the ramifications of investing objects with such power, as they are well demonstrated in the history of South Africa, while showing that human value will prevail over monetary worth.

Other Issues

April 2007, Volume 8, Number 2
January 2007, Volume 8, Number 1
Deterritorializing American Culture, 23
July 2000, Issue 02
October 2000, Issue 03
January 2001, Issue 04
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November 2001, Issue 07
February 2002, Issue 08
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July 2005, Issue 19
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George Fredrickson's White Supremacy , Issue 21
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