Written Out of History: A Conversation with Joel Cabrita
The Africanist Podcast - Un pódcast de Bamba Ndiaye, PhD
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In this episode, historian, Joel Cabrita (Standford University), discusses her recent monograph Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala (Ohio University Press 2023) She explains how a Black South African woman (Regina Twala) was systematically erased from history and from the scholarly works she helped produced. Dr. Cabrita also discusses the issues of positionality, historical erasure, and academic misappropriation as obstacles that continue to impede knowledge production and dissemination.
