This is the first of two episodes based on interviews recorded at the 2019 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: African Ethnographies conference that was held at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa by Sara Rendell and Dina Asfaha from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. In this installment, Sara Rendell interviews Nosipho Mngomezulu, a lecturer at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg whose research focuses on national and transnational youth cultures, nation-building projects in post-colonial societies, and community engaged learning and teaching.
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Producer & Editor: Kyle Olson
Executive Producer: Anar Parikh
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Transition Music: Huku by Sho Madjozi
Intro/Outro Music: "Waiting" by Crowander"
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