{"id":19872,"date":"2024-09-10T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?post_type=cu-events&#038;p=19872"},"modified":"2024-09-10T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:00:09","slug":"available-light-omar-badsha-and-the-struggle-for-change-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"cu-events","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/cu-events\/available-light-omar-badsha-and-the-struggle-for-change-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are warmly invited to join us for the upcoming &#8220;Knowing Africa&#8221; Seminar Series event titled <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Available-Light-Badsha-Struggle-Change\/dp\/0821425625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong>, presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/history.yale.edu\/people\/daniel-magaziner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Daniel Magaziner<\/strong><\/a> (Yale). The discussion will be enriched by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/international-affairs\/faculty\/sean-jacobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sean Jacobs<\/strong><\/a> (New School) and <a href=\"https:\/\/wiser.wits.ac.za\/people\/sarah-nuttall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sarah Nuttall<\/strong> <\/a>(Wits).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Event Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong> October 30, 2024<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time:<\/strong> 1:00 PM &#8211; 2:30 PM EST<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We encourage you to <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton-ca.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJAodOitrj8iH9ImXIyPHTvwUsNHF7A8WEjL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>register now<\/strong> <\/a>to secure your spot at this insightful event.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19873 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Available-Light-cover-page-240x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Available-Light-cover-page-240x343.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Available-Light-cover-page-400x571.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Available-Light-cover-page-160x229.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Available-Light-cover-page-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Available-Light-cover-page-360x514.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Available-Light-cover-page-200x286.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/Available-Light-cover-page.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>杏吧原创 the book:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-italic\">Available Light\u00a0<\/span>tells the story of an activist, an artist, a uniquely South African individual, and his community and family across the second half of the twentieth century. Omar Badsha was born in Durban, on the country\u2019s southeastern coast in 1945. His was the third generation of his Gujarati family to call South Africa home. Before he turned five, the country\u2019s white electorate had voted to institute apartheid to strip the rights and privileges of citizenship from most of the population, including Badsha\u2019s Indian community and especially the country\u2019s Black majority. By the time he turned fifteen, nonviolent protest against apartheid had been quashed; by the time he turned twenty, so too had the armed struggle to dislodge white supremacy within the country. The ongoing, resilient, and oft-rebuffed struggle against apartheid was a definitive factor in Badsha\u2019s life. Furthermore, Badsha was raised in a community where art\u2015painting, carving, music, poetry, theater\u2015was inseparable from other values, whether Islamic and conservative or radical and urgently committed. When Badsha struggled in school, he, like his father, turned to art to express what he otherwise had difficulty conveying. Art brought him into contact with people of disparate backgrounds from far beyond Durban. In time, his friendships with other artists helped him refine his voice, first in drawing and eventually in photography, and capture the political ethic by which he strove to live his life and which he shared with similarly committed artist-activists. Daniel Magaziner chronicles how art and politics became intertwined in South Africa and explains what it takes to maintain a critical aesthetic approach to political crises in the past and present. The book tracks the personal and social costs that commitment can incur, while also appreciating how Badsha and others like him have maintained their vision of an equitable, transformed society even today, when the ideals that once animated the South African struggle are on the back foot worldwide.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"u-center-text\">\n\t<p>\n\t\t<a class=\"button__red button__red--solid\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton-ca.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJAodOitrj8iH9ImXIyPHTvwUsNHF7A8WEjL\" target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Register now<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"daevent-type":[],"event-audience":[189,190,191,197],"event-featured":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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