The discussant will be Prof Catherine Burns (University of Witwatersrand). 

Khumisho Moguerane is a historian at the University of Johannesburg. She is interested in how ordinary people experienced colonial rule and the political and cultural worlds they fashioned along the colonial frontier. She explores how people's everyday struggles for moral reputation informed political identity and contestations for power. In her book Morafe, she shows how one family’s private entanglements shaped our political borders, our nationalisms, and the memories of our past.

“A magnificent achievement that change much of what we think we know about southern African History” (Isabel Hofmeyr)

“Morafe is scholarly and fine-grained yet written with brio and flair … there is nothing else like it!” (Paul S Landau)