BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.6.4.4//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:79@wrocah.ac.uk DTSTART:20211028T130000Z DTEND:20211028T140000Z DTSTAMP:20211124T122717Z URL:https://wrocah.ac.uk/events/noni-jabavus-words-and-worlds-black-britis h-south-african-literary-pioneer/ SUMMARY:Noni Jabavu’s Words and Worlds: Black British-South African Liter ary Pioneer DESCRIPTION:\n\n \;\n\nNoni Jabavu as editor of New Strand magazine\, 1 961. Photo: Getty ImagesOn Thursday 28th October\, we had the opportunity to learn more about the black British-South African writer Nontando (Noni) Jabavu (1919-2008)\, whose compelling life and work deserve to be better known.Jabavu spoke of being part of ‘two worlds with two loyalties\; Sou th Africa where I was born and England where I was educated’. In additio n\, Jabavu visited and lived in scores of countries during the course of h er eventful and influential life\, writing of ‘the peripatetic print’ of her feet. She worked as a BBC broadcaster\, columnist\, literary editor \, and author of two memoirs\, Drawn in Colour and The Ochre People.\n\ nWith special resonance for the north of England\, Jabavu completed her sc hooling at The Mount School in York in the 1903s where she developed her l iterary and musical talents\, the Quaker connections which had brought her to the UK\, and the shaping of an expansive transnational outlook. Follow ing her schooling and a brief period back in South Africa\, she enrolled a t the Royal Academy of Music before leaving to pursue a career in media\, while contributing to the War effort as a semi-skilled engineer and welder .\n\nOur speakers shone a spotlight on this outstanding figure – the fir st black woman to become editor of a British literary magazine\, The New S trand\, and one of the first African women to gain global literary promine nce – and explored questions of identity\, belonging\, and mobility.\n\n Our event featured leading scholars of black feminist intellectual history : Makhosazana Xaba of the University of Witwatersrand and Athambile Masola of the University of Cape Town\, both in South Africa. It presents too th e archival insights of Charles Fonge of the Borthwick Institute for Archiv es at the University of York and it is chaired by Janet Remmington of the Humanities Research Centre\, also of the University of York\, whose resear ch focuses on black South Africa travel and textual cultures.\n\nMakhosaza na Xaba is an award-winning poet\, writer\, and scholar based at the Univ ersity of the Witwatersrand\, South Africa\, working on a biography of Non i Jabavu as well as an array of literary and translation projects. She has worked for a range of NGOs and media organizations\, spending time in exi le in late apartheid\n\nDr Athambile Masola is a leading writer\, poet\, researcher\, and educationalist\, working as a Lecturer in Historical Stud ies at the University of Cape Town\, South Africa. Widely published in aca demic outlets as well as the press\, her research focuses on black women ’s historiography\, life writing\, and cultural production.\n\nDr Charle s Fonge is the University Archivist and Records Manager at the University of York’s Borthwick Institute for Archives and a keen contributor to SC OLMA (UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa).\n\nDr Janet Remmington  is an Associate of the Humanities Research Centre at the University of Yor k\, with a PhD from the same institution on a black South African literary history of travel. She is co-editor of the prize-winning volume Sol Plaa tje’s Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present (2016).\n\nThe vide o of the event is available here:\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Open Event END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR