IFAA and Surplus hosted Professor Josephine Noward, the daughter of legendary investigative journalist Henry “Mr Drum” Nxumalo. Now resident in the USA, Norward’s body of work is described as ‘grounded in issues of social inequality in education, health care, and housing.’ Amongst her achievements, is an interdisciplinary documentary on investigative journalism in South Africa in the 1950s. The film was selected as a finalist at the World Film Festival 2017.
Her memoir, Honoring My Village, tells the personal of a black South African woman born into the apartheid system and raised in a poor community that struggled for survival, depicting her journey from those origins. The attendees to this forum were attracted by her connection, through her father, to a particular aspect of South Africa’s social history, as seen through the eyes of a specific black generation familiar with Drum Magazine.
This event prefigures a series of Social History Forums that IFAA will roll out in the 3rd quarter.
Book Launch: ‘Honoring My Village’ by Josephine Norward
