CONTENTS: Preface p.7

Acronyms and abbreviations p.11

PART I

The ANC and the Struggle against Apartheid in Italy

CHAPTER 1

Studies on South Africa in Italy: A Historiographical Survey

ANTONIO PEZZANO p.17

CHAPTER 2

Italy and Apartheid South Africa: Between Innovation and

Ambivalence, 1976-1990

MARIA CRISTINA ERCOLESSI p.37

CHAPTER 3

The Anti-Apartheid Movement in Italy: Processes, Mechanisms and Heritage

CRISTIANA FIAMINGO p.53

PART II

The ANC in South Africa and Africa: Memories, Histories and

Narratives

CHAPTER 4

Forgetting and Remembering: Whose Struggle History Counts?

NOOR NIEFTAGODIEN p.81

CHAPTER 5

The Botswana Connection: The Re-invigoration of Confrontational

Politics in Thembisa Township, 1979-1990

TSHEPO MOLOI p.107

CHAPTER 6

“It Was Nice, but Life Was Difficult”: The Experiences of Tanzanian Women after South Africa’s Liberation

ARIANNA LISSONI AND MARIA SURIANO p.129

PART III

South African Literature and Art between Home and Exile

CHAPTER 7

Exile and Writing in Apartheid South Africa

ITALA VIVAN p.153

CHAPTER 8

“A Model for Knowledge”: Some Observations on William

Kentridge’s Drawings for Projection

MARIA DE VIVO p.171

CHAPTER 9

Poems of Struggle and Exile

MAKHOSAZANA XABA p.181

PART IV

Italian Archives and Testimonies

CHAPTER 10

South Africa and Italian Support for the Struggle against Apartheid

VINCENZO CURATOLA AND RAFFAELLA CHIODO KARPINSKY p.191

CHAPTER 11

Ubuntu. Reggio Emilia and South Africa: History of a Friendship

MIRCO CARRATTIERI AND GIANLUCA GRASSI p.201

Contributors p.215