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Papers by Dawne Curry

African Studies Review, Jul 20, 2022

and her contributors have expertly critiqued films featuring this ethnically, linguistically, and... more and her contributors have expertly critiqued films featuring this ethnically, linguistically, and politically diverse continent of Africa in all of its allure, mystery, and excitement. Africa takes center stage as the authors debate, dissect, and deliver the goods about the images that Hollywood creates and perpetuates about Africa.

Journal of West African history, 2016

Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2012

During a routine and highly secretive recruiting trip in South Africa’s Northwestern Province act... more During a routine and highly secretive recruiting trip in South Africa’s Northwestern Province activists Simon “Bafana” Mohlanyaneng1 and David Ramusi approached 15-year-old Solomon Baloyi, who was on his way back from attending a soccer match in rural Jonathan. The operatives planned to extend Alexandra’s theatre of operation by gauging the interest of this fertile ground. Their chances were optimized by the schools being closed. The student uprising had swept the nation into an orgy of violence and protests. Pupils had taken to the streets, as they had no classes to attend, so Bafana seized this opportunity to impress upon Baloyi that he should join the armed struggle as many of his own colleagues had done.

Following the student uprising, concerned parents wanted to find something for students to do bes... more Following the student uprising, concerned parents wanted to find something for students to do besides wander the streets, so they, along with the Alexandra Liaison Committee (ALC), founded the Thusong Youth Centre in 1979, the year of Alexandra’s reprieve.1 Therapy was needed because according to Thusong employee Beauty More, “We didn’t know a person was traumatized …. In the olden days we viewed things such as counseling, as a white thing. We as Blacks, we didn’t have those skills of saying if a child was chased by the police there must be a trauma on that child.”2 Parents took physically unhurt children to mean that they had no problems or suffered from any ailment because “the children were safe.”3 One parent who asked for anonymity; explained; My child was fifteen years old at the time of the uprising, and suffered from nightmares and barely slept after he saw one of his friends shot. He would wake up trembling. I didn’t pay attention to this at first so I sent him to Thusong, because his grades got bad, and he started acted funny and doing those things that children do. So, they got him drawing pictures of what he saw. He drew pictures showing how his friend died. Most of the pictures showed hippos. This taught me a lot about what he was going through. In the beginning, all I cared about was that he was safe.4

Safundi, Jan 2, 2018

This paper examines the ideology of Cecilia Lillian Tshabalala who spent 18 years in the United S... more This paper examines the ideology of Cecilia Lillian Tshabalala who spent 18 years in the United States from 1912 to 1930. Within two years of returning to South Africa, she founded the self-help group, the Daughters of Africa in 1932. Tshabalala used the Daughters and the widely read newspapers-Bantu World and Ilanga laseNatalto define, construct, and diagnose the African nation she found materially and socially wanting upon her return. Tshabalala's experience abroad and her exposure to African-American women's clubs and her participation at the annual Chautauqua conferences in upstate New York provided the platform for her to conduct her own social service gospel in segregated South Africa. This essay, which argues that religion served as Tshabalala's antidote to all the social ills plaguing the African nation, traces the evolution of her ideology by discussing how she was in conversation with African-American and South African male movements, and also women on the African continent. In 1940, at a meeting in Pimville, Soweto, a crowd of educators assembled to hear Cecilia Lillian Tshabalala, founder of the Daughters of Africa (Amadodakazi aseAfrika) speak on her first visit to the township. Tshabalala discussed the Daughters' formation and its goals, explaining that upon her return from the United States, where she lived for 18 years (1912-1930), she "found [her] nation suffering like a piece of overcooked corn" and "had known then that she I had to do something to rebuild it. " 1 It had seemed to her that African-Americans "were neither advanced nor succeeding, " in spite of the fact, as she explained, that "the Negro woman in the States ha[d] ... followed the ... example of her older sister (Africa) with haste unequaled. " 2 These observations spurred Tshabalala on to start a female organization. Fourteen years after Charlotte Maxeke had started the Bantu Women's League KEYWORDS

The American Historical Review, Oct 1, 2018

Journal of World History, 2021

In 1971,65-year-old shoemaker and barber Jackson Banyeni received a notice to vacate his property... more In 1971,65-year-old shoemaker and barber Jackson Banyeni received a notice to vacate his property from Alexandra’s governing and policing authority, Peri-Urban Areas Health Board (Peri-Urban). Peri-Urban gained control in 1958, when it replaced the Health Committee1 that had managed the township’s affairs since 1916. Charged with the responsibility of ending gang rule,2 and conducting pass3 raids, Peri-Urban consisted of African and White police officers who enforced law and order throughout the township.4 Peri-Urban was also empowered with banishment orders, which longtime activists Reverend A. A. Tanci and Azikwelwa (We Will Not Ride!) bus boycott leader Dan Mokonyane received in 1960.

African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, 2015

African American Studies Center, May 19, 2005