Jacob Dlamini (author)
Jacob Dlamini is a South African journalist, historian and author. He is currently an associate professor of history at Princeton University.[1]
His first book, Native Nostalgia, presents a nostalgic account of his own childhood under apartheid. His second book, Askari, which won him the 2015 Alan Paton Award, looks at how black people were coerced into collaborating with the apartheid forces.[2]
Dlamini was a researcher at the University of Barcelona, a Ruth First fellow at Wits University and received a doctorate in history from Yale University. He was political editor at the Business Day newspaper, and a columnist for both that paper and the now defunct The Weekender.[3]
List of works
- Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle. Jacana Media. 2014. ISBN 978-1-4314-0975-4.
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Awards and honors
- 2015 Alan Paton Award[4]
References
- ^ Patel, Ushma (16 October 2015). "Board approves 17 appointments to Princeton faculty". Princeton University. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
- ^ Davis, Rebecca (5 December 2014). "Betrayal chronicles: The agonising case of Apartheid's black collaborators |". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
- ^ "Jacob Dlamini". Open Society Foundations. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ^ Jennifer (27 June 2015). "Damon Galgut and Jacob Dlamini Win the 2015 Sunday Times Literary Awards". Books Live. Retrieved 2015-06-28.
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