Kharnita Mohamed and Mohamed Seedat reflecting on Traditions 2: Everyday Lives of African Men, held in Ethiopia on 28-30 November 2011

Here are the anthropologist Kharnita Mohamed and community psychologist Mohamed Seedat reflecting on Traditions 2: Everyday Lives of African Men, held in Ethiopia on 28-30 November 2011. Kharnita Mohamed is a researcher at and Mohamed Seedat is the director of the University of South Africa's Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS). Part of the project Changing Traditions, Traditions is a travelling biennial pitso of the Programme of Traditions and Transformation (PoTT) within the ISHS. Kharnita Mohamed and Mohamed Seedat are being interviewed on their impressions of the pitso and the debates that took place by peace scholar and psychologist Shahnaaz Suffla of the University of South Africa-Medical Research Council's Safety and Peace Promotion Research Unit. Mandisa Malinga edited the pictures. 

Tammy Shefer, scholar of sexuality and gender, at Traditions 2: Everyday Lives of African Men, Ethiopia 28-30 November 2011

Here is a short video clip of sexuality and gender scholar Tammy Shefer, former director of Women's & Gender Studies Department and Deputy Dean of Arts at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. Professor Shefer was a delegate at Traditions 2: Everyday Lives of African Men, held in Ethiopia on 28-30 November 2011, where she spoke on the paper 'Caring for Change'. She was asked to express her reflections on the event by feminist peace scholar and clinical psychologist Shahnaaz Suffla of the University of South Africa-Medical Research Council's Safety and Peace Promotion Research Unit. The video edited by Mandisa Malinga.

Feminist literature scholar Pumla Dineo Gqola, after giving a talk at Traditions 2: Everyday Lives of African Men, Ethiopia 28-30 November 2011

  

Feminist literature scholar and cultural critic Pumla Dineo Gqola

Here is a short video clip of feminist literature scholar and cultural critic Pumla Dineo Gqola, after giving her keynote address at Traditions 2: Everyday Lives of African Men, held in Ethiopia on 28-30 November 2011. Her talk was titled "Feminist masculinities or suicidal men". She is being inteviewed by peace scholar and psychologist Shahnaaz Suffla of the University of South Africa-Medical Research Council's Safety and Peace Promotion Research Unit. Shahnaaz Suffla asks her to imagine a title and other aspects of a novel she would write on African men, if she were to think of writing a novel, for Pumla Dineo Gqola writes short-stories.