Shamil Jeppie will present at the Seminar in Art and Material Culture of Africa and the African Diaspora on Tuesday, May 3, at 6 pm.
Shamil Jeppie teaches history at the University of Cape Town, where he also established the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project in the early 2000s to research the book culture in Timbuktu and the broader region. The volume The Meanings of Timbuktu (2008; French translation 2011) brought together work by outside scholars, local experts, and collectors and provided many images of individual texts. Jeppie is completing a general introduction to the book provisionally titled Timbuktu: Desert Scholars and Collectors. Apart from this area of work, he has written on aspects of South African urban social history and is involved in Africa-wide and South-South humanities networks. He was educated in Cape Town and Princeton.
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