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Paul Landau Promoted To Professor

May 15, 2014 History

Paul Landau Promoted To Professor

Professor Landau has been awarded promotion to the rank of Professor in the Department of History.Paul Landau is a historian of Africans in colonial Africa.

Professor Landau has been awarded promotion to the rank of Professor in the Department of History.

Paul Landau is a historian of Africans in colonial Africa. His first book, The Realm of the Word, about a nineteenth century kingdom, was based colonial archives, Setswana letters, and oral traditions gathered in Botswana. His recent book, Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400 to 1948, is a grand revision of the story of South Africa’s politics, tracing Africans’ 20th-century hybrid mobilizations back to pre-colonial forms of alliance and ranking. Currently, Prof. Landau focuses on twentieth-century radicalisms, that of Liberal groups, the African National Congress, the Communist Party, and Umkhonto weSizwe, the Spear of the Nation. The eventual book will be called Spear: Nelson Mandela and the South African Revolution, 1960–64. Prof. Landau is coeditor of the African Historical Review (Pretoria) since 2010, and a Fellow in Historical Studies at the University of Johannesburg since 2011.