Join the Department of African and African American Studies and the Rose Art Museum for the annual Ruth First Memorial Lecture. Designed as a lecture to promote Black liberation in southern Africa, ...
A few years ago I filed Freedom of Information Act requests for FBI, CIA, and US State Department files held on the murdered anti-apartheid activist, Ruth First. My interest in Ruth First was ...
Ruth First was an icon and historical political figure in South Africa. A famous anti-apartheid activist, her name rings a bell in Kenya because of her leftist ideologies, which were popular with ...
Ruth First, born 100 years ago, was a South African freedom fighter, journalist and scholar who worked against the racist system of apartheid during white minority rule. She was assassinated by ...