Janet Remmington

Blue Humanities, the subject of our first special issues, is a deeply intersectional field. Check out these inspiring projects from Oceanic Humanities for the Global South, a research institute which combines creative practice with scientific research.

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📢 Call for Senior Editor: #DigitalHumanities on our growing broad scope open access journal Cogent Arts & Humanities ✨ Apply by 23 November 2025 👇
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How Nollywood films help Kenyan housemaids make sense of their lives The films discussed by the women I interviewed served as commentaries on the social costs of poverty on the family. This is a popular Nollywood theme.

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Great Conversation Africa piece by Solomon Waliaula, editor of Journal of African Cultural Studies, on the role of Nollywood narratives in everyday lives

Front cover of a newspaper called "The Friday Paper". The cover image is a drawing of the central Johannesburg skyline showing skycrapers and beanth the skyscapers are horizontal layers of pastel-coloured rock.

The people behind @thecontinent.org have launched a new paper focused on South Africa called @thefridaypaper.bsky.social and the cover story is about gold and Johannesburg's new gold mine.

You can read it for free here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

“New African” Culture and Black Sociopolitical Life in Early to Mid-Twentieth-Century South Africa AbstractThis chapter explores the contours and complexities of “New African” ideas, culture, society, and politics in twentieth-century South Africa. It wa

Just published online, my chapter on cultural and sociopolitical developments, c1900-c1950, in the Oxford Handbook of South African History. A long journey to getting this out, but voila. Published in hardback in Apr ‘26.

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Travel as activism: 6 stories of Black women who refused to ‘stay put’ in apartheid South Africa The stories of six South African women who travelled to fight for workers and for women’s rights, and risked it all.

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Just out in the Conversation Africa:

My take on moving to be free. A study of black working women in apartheid who “travelled to gain ground for the greater cause of freedom, while discovering new versions of themselves along the way.”

Dar es Salaam and the excellent Mashariki Literary and Cultural Studies Conference. Great to be part of the writing workshop and to reflect also on a decade (& slightly more) of the innovative journal Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.

A reminder that @libbyapp.com gives you free,legal access to fab mags eg New Yorker, Empire, etc & high quality journalism in other languages 💯

Calling historians and all interested readers: Johannesburg and Cape Town launches at @exclusivebooks.bsky.social and Book Lounge.

The prominent Molteno family with multiple impacts on South African politics, social life and culture.

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Just out in @sajournalofscience.bsky.social: my review of Publishing from the South by Wits Press. Fascinating multi-authored read about the life and times of a distinctive university press and the broader dynamics of publishing from the global African South: sajs.co.za/article/view...

🚀 Research integrity is a global challenge requiring community-driven solutions. Join us April 8 as Joy Owango (TCC Africa) discusses the Africa Research Integrity Initiative and its role in ethical research practices. 🌍🔬
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ORCID: Still Persistent, Still Independent In this blog post, we reflect on the progress we’ve made at ORCID, and how we've remained true to the vision set forth in our earliest days.

In a world where political shifts disrupt the research landscape, ORCID's mission remains steadfast.

Our commitment to supporting researchers and their work is unwavering.

Read more on our latest blog: info.orcid.org/orcid-still-...

Great news, yes, yes, yes, @noosarowiwa.bsky.social’s Black Ghosts wins the @stanfordstravel.bsky.social award. Had the privilege and wonder of interviewing her about the book for @africa.theconversation.com. Have a read x2! theconversation.com/black-ghosts...

Delius, Chewins & Forssman urge us to 'turn South African history upside down': rather than a story starting at the Cape in 1652, they use archeological & multiarchival evidence to situate SA in a 1000-year history beyond the Limpopo & Indian Ocean.
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Simon Gush, “Worker Leaving the Factory, Maseru 2014”, 2014, slideshow. Courtesy of the artist and Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg. https://circulationsconference.wordpress.com/

JSAS 50.3 includes a Part-Special Issue 'Circulations in Southern Africa & Beyond through Artistic Practice', bringing historical, artistic & curatorial voices to debates on immigration & xenophobia in South Africa & to the historiography on circulations.
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Excellent @orcid.org board meeting in Munich reaffirming the mission to connect research & researchers, providing free unique identifiers for all contributing to scholarship and innovation around the world. Such a well run, focused organization and vibrant inclusive global community.

What's Trump's beef with South Africa? Trump has accused South Africa of "human rights violations" and a land grab. The South African government has hit back.

Trump has accused South Africa of "human rights violations" and a land grab. The South African government has hit back.

Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...

ATTENTION: ALL JOURNAL EDITORS.
Have the courage that Jocalyn Clark and Kamran Abbasi at the BMJ have displayed here.
Call all this out for what it is. And then refuse to comply.

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Book review: Zakes Mda’s subversive take on Lesotho’s traditions Set in the music wars of Lesotho, the new novel by the South African author tells of a wandering minstrel whose hit song leads to his downfall.

Illegal mining in South Africa is one of the themes in @zakesmda.bsky.social's brilliant novel Wayfarers' Hymns. Here's a review by @lizzyattree.bsky.social -> theconversation.com/book-review-... via @africa.theconversation.com #Stillfontein

In preparing the article I found Mahvish Ahmad's discussion of the musāfir in Dilip Menon's edited volume on Southern concepts (@WitsPress & @Routledge books) particularly apt and generative –and valued the discussions at @JIAS_UJ.

Delighted to publish on black women's activist travel during apartheid in the Decolonial Turn special issue of Studies in Travel Writing. Thank you to the Hakluyt Society conference, excellent guest editors Natalya Din-Kariuki & Guido van Meersbergen and anonymous reviewers.

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Activist travel and decolonial worldmaking: black women trade unionists on the move in and beyond apartheid South Africa The defiant everyday and further-afield travels and articulations of anti-apartheid black women trade unionists in making and changing worlds form the analytical focus of this article. The article ...

Shining a light on the activist travel of black women trade unionists in and beyond apartheid South Africa. My article just out: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Upends conventional takes on travel, foregrounding hardwon, unglamorous, costly personal and political mobilities.doi.org/10.1080/1364...97

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Stimulating AfOx interdisciplinary Insaka. The provocations and inspirations of exploring infrastructure building of different kinds — the built landscape and the constructs of archives. Thank you Rehema Msulwa and Tinashe Mushakavanhu.

Much to get stuck into, shaking off the spruce needles….

Total joy—never dull!—interviewing the unstoppable Noo Saro-Wiwa. Deep dive into lives of Africans in China as explored in her stunning new travel book: Black Ghosts (Canongate).

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Thank you The Conversation Africa & Charl Blignaut.

Piece just out, thx to Mail & Guardian & @JCharlesLeonard. Explores anti-Rhodes activism and its symbolism then and now. Extract from broader essay on ‘Olive Schreiner, Race and Black South Africa’ in @SAModernism’s new exciting book (Edinburgh Uni UP). mg.co.za/friday/2023-... #RhodesMustFall