Revolting Music

The FHI is gearing up for an exciting set of events in November featuring two young writers from South Africa: Neo Muyanga (website), a composer working on a libretto that reimagines South African protest music for the present, and Khadija Patel (website/twitter), a journalist/blogger writing a history of the Johannesburg suburb Mayfair, as its multiethnic residents negotiate newly Afropolitan identities while battling legacies of segregation.Muyanga and Patel are visiting Duke as fellows in a new international, cross-institutional program for non-academic writers wishing to work in a university setting, jointly supported by WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Econoomic Research) at the University of Witwatersrand and the FHI and the Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke. They have spent the last 5 months at WiSER developing their projects and will spend the final month of their fellowships here in Durham. The WiSER-Duke Writing Fellowships extend the FHI's ongoing partnership with WiSER and support for the annual Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism.This event is associated with their visit.