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.