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A Modest Request . . .

Anyone out there have between $16,000 and $19,000 lying around that they want to use to fund me to participate in “The Changing Face of South Africa: World Leaders Forum,” which would avail me of the chance to rub elbows and exchange ideas with Desmond Tutu, FW DeKlerk, and other prominent South Africans? Fund two trips and we’ll go together. The FPA will get great material out of it, so really this is a selfless request driven solely by my desire to put the best product possible out there . . .

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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