Binding the Ties Together: A Reflection on Bernard Magubane and The Transnational Nature of South African Studies

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Notes

¹ I briefly met him once when I was still a graduate student. I wanted to tell him about my own research and express how his work influenced mine own. Instead I sheepishly shook his hand, said hello and quickly exited the room.

² Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic.

³ Magubane, The Ties That Bind, 230.

⁴ Magubane, The Ties That Bind, 239.

⁵ Magubane, My Life & Times, 136.

⁶ Magubane, My Life & Times, 128.

⁷ Magubane, My Life & Times, 130–1.

⁸ Magubane, My Life & Times, 106.

⁹ Magubane, My Life & Times, 123–7.

¹⁰ Magubane, My Life & Times, 137.

¹¹ Magubane, My Life & Times, 111.

¹² Magubane, My Life & Times, 111.

¹³ Magubane, The Ties That Bind, 163.

¹⁴ Magubane, The Ties That Bind, 230.

¹⁵ Magubane, The Ties That Bind, 130.

¹⁶ Magubane, The Ties That Bind, 117.

¹⁷ Azikiwe is quoted at a 1959 gala celebrating the NAACP’s 50th anniversary. See Magubane, The Ties That Bind, 199–200.

¹⁸ The whole scene that is painted by Magubane makes for a fantastic case of global black activism where Paul Robeson, an African American, chairs a black organization based in London “directly” helping black South Africans. See Magubane, The Ties That Bind, 173–4.