Birth Place of African Journalism

In collaboration with the Rhodes Drama Department and the Journalism Department, the project aims to explore the first black-printed newspapers from the Eastern Cape, namely Izwi Labantu, Umshumayeli Wendaba & Imvo Zabantu. The aim was to capture the essence of the late 1890s in South Africa and to explore the clothing / costuming of black intellectuals such as AK Soga and JT Jabavu within South Africa’s colonial history.