Moussa Blimpo

Assistant Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto

Contact: moussa.blimpo@utoronto.ca

Boanuh, David. “The Future of Film-Making in Africa is me.” Filmed in July 2020 at TEDxEastLegon, Ghana. Video, 12:53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brea6PKoEoY

“The future of film-making in Africa is me. How videos and films during early childhood set me up on this path.” David Boanuh is a film-maker using visuals to tell the African story.

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Ozwald Boateng

Fashion House/Fashion designer

London, UK

Contact: 30 Savile Row
London
W1S 3PT

Telephone: +44 0207 437 2030
Email: store@ozwaldboateng.co.uk

Website: www.ozwaldboateng.co.uk

Boehmer, Elleke. Nelson Mandela : The Black Pimpernel. London: Zed Books, 2013. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350254169.

Nelson Mandela, in his incredible transition from one of the world's longest-detained political prisoners to iconic statesman, became an exemplary figure of integrity and moral fortitude. In this fascinating essay, Elleke Boehmer looks beyond Mandela the symbol to reveal the sophistication of his self-awareness, rhetorical style, political astuteness and strategic willingness to perform the roles required of him to achieve his political aim: freedom and equality in South Africa.

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Bohler-Muller, Narnia, Vasu Reddy, Gregory Houston, Maxi Schoeman, and Heather Thuynsma. The Texture of Dissent: Defiant Public Intellectuals in South Africa, 2022.

The Texture of Dissent presents concise political biographies of a myriad of prominent South African public intellectuals who were shaped by the contentious issues of their day. Showcasing the ways in which these individuals were involved in the "political work of social change," the contributors also reflect on the legacy of their defiant thought and action in today's complex environment.

Source: rienner.com

Bolliger, L.  “Apartheid’s African Soldiers: A History of Black Namibian and Angolan Members of South Africa’s Former Security Forces, 1975 to the Present.” PhD thesis, University of Oxford, 2020.

In this study, I examine the history of black Namibian and Angolan soldiers who fought in apartheid South Africa’s security forces during the Namibian war of independence and the Angolan post-independence civil war from 1975 until 1989. I ask how and why these soldiers got involved in South Africa’s security forces, and what the legacies of that involvement have been, in particular for the individual soldiers and their families. Based primarily on black former soldiers’ own accounts, I argue that their experiences deeply disrupt dominant narratives of heroic struggles of ‘national liberation’ against colonial occupation. While scholars have remained almost entirely silent on the histories of African soldiers of colonial and settler armies during the period of decolonization, nationalist narratives have either ignored or denounced them as ‘mercenaries’ and ‘collaborators’. I complicate such portrayals by highlighting the limits and divisions of the wars of ‘national liberation’ in Namibia and Angola. More specifically, I trace the long history of different forms of ‘collaboration’ during colonial conquest and occupation and examine black soldiers’ complex motivations for joining and remaining in South Africa’s security forces.

Source: excerpt from thesis abstract as culled from https://ora.ox.ac.uk

Bollig, Michael. Shaping the African Savannah : From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

The southern African savannah landscape has been framed as an 'Arid Eden' in recent literature, as one of Africa's most sought after exotic tourism destinations by twenty-first century travellers, as a 'last frontier' by early twentieth-century travellers and as an ancient ancestral land by Namibia's Herero communities. In this 150-year history of the region, Michael Bollig looks at how this 'Arid Eden' came into being, how this 'last frontier' was construed, and how local pastoralists relate to the landscape. Putting the intricate and changing relations between humans, arid savannah grasslands and its co-evolving animal inhabitants at the centre of his analysis, this history of material relations, of power struggles between commercial hunters and wildlife, between wealthy cattle patrons and foraging clients, between established homesteads and recent migrants, conservationists and pastoralists. Finally, Bollig highlights how futures are being aspired to and planned for between the increasing challenges of climate change, global demands for cheap ores and quests for biodiversity conservation.

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Bombshell Grenade

Rapper

Zambia

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