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The UF Center for African Studies presents a Baraza with Dr. Stephen Davis, University of Kentucky: “Freedom Park and the Concretization of Struggle History in South Africa”

September 4, 2015 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Dr. Steve Davis is assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky and earned his doctorate at UF. His publications include “Struggle History and Self-Help: The Parallel Lives of Nelson Mandela in Conventional and Figurative Biography” in African Studies (2014); “Training and Deployment at Novo Catengue and Jack Simons’ Diaries” in Journal of Southern African Studies (2014); and “The African National Congress, its Radio, its Allies and Exile” Journal of Southern African Studies (2009).

Dr. Davis will speak about “Freedom Park and the Concretization of Struggle History in South Africa” on Friday, September 4, 2015, at 3:30 p.m. in 404 Grinter Hall. A reception will follow.

The fall 2015 schedule of CAS events is now available at: http://africa.ufl.edu/upcoming-events/calendars/. Suggestions for future speakers are welcome.

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Date:
September 4, 2015
Time:
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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University of Florida
404 Grinter Hall
Gainesville, FL United States
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