N Chabani Manganyi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4506266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Chabani Manganyi |
| GIVEN NAMES | N Chabani |
| FAMILY NAME | Manganyi |
| SIGNATURE | MANGANYI N C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Being Black in the World
Being-Black-in-the-World, one of N. Chabani Manganyi's first publications, was written in 1973 at a time of global socio-political change. The Black Consciousness movement had emerged in the mid-1960s and the African continent was throwing off its colonial yoke. In South Africa, renewed resistance to the brutality of apartheid rule would detonate in the Soweto uprising led by black school children three years later. Publication of Being-Black-in-…
On becoming a psychologist in apartheid South Africa
Clinical Psychology training is an arduous journey wherever in the world one pursues it. However, in apartheid South Africa, the experience of becoming a psychologist held its own unique challenges, especially if you were a person of Colour. This article chronicles some of the barriers and hurdles that I had to overcome in order to train as a psychologist in a country where it was almost not expected that Africans could train as clinical psycholo…
Making History's Silences Speak
An interview with South African biographer, psychologist, and life writing theorist N. C. Manganyi, University of Pretoria, 5 March 2002
Political Violence and the Struggle in South Africa
This book provides a unique perspective, at once scholarly and fully engaged, on the political violence in South Africa during 'The Time of the Comrades' in the mid-1980s. The work of a group of socia
Thoughts about Death and Dying in an African Sample
The attitudes toward death and dying of 163 Xhosa-speaking respondents living in Transkei, South Africa were assessed by means of semi-structured interviews. Eight aspects of death were studied: personal death, death of others, the right to know about one's impending death, preferred length of life span, preferences for manner of dying, and place of death, euthanasia, and suicide. A number of critical factors in the formation of attitudes were re…
Exiles and Homecomings
Black Consciousness, Soweto, and Revolt in South Africa
Studies on Albinism in the South African Negro I. Intellectual Maturity and Body Image Differentiation
Twenty-eight South African Negro albinos have been tested for intellectual maturity and body image boundary, characteristics and a comparison made with carefully matched normally pigmented controls. The albinos were found to be more intellectually mature than the controls but the control group showed slightly more diffuse body image boundary differentiation than the albino group.
On becoming a psychologist in apartheid South Africa
Clinical Psychology training is an arduous journey wherever in the world one pursues it. However, in apartheid South Africa, the experience of becoming a psychologist held its own unique challenges, especially if you were a person of Colour. This article chronicles some of the barriers and hurdles that I had to overcome in order to train as a psychologist in a country where it was almost not expected that Africans could train as clinical psycholo…
Exiles and Homecomings
Studies on Albinism in the South African Negro I. Intellectual Maturity and Body Image Differentiation
Twenty-eight South African Negro albinos have been tested for intellectual maturity and body image boundary, characteristics and a comparison made with carefully matched normally pigmented controls. The albinos were found to be more intellectually mature than the controls but the control group showed slightly more diffuse body image boundary differentiation than the albino group.
Black Consciousness, Soweto, and Revolt in South Africa
Exiles and Homecomings
Political Violence and the Struggle in South Africa
This book provides a unique perspective, at once scholarly and fully engaged, on the political violence in South Africa during 'The Time of the Comrades' in the mid-1980s. The work of a group of socia
Thoughts about Death and Dying in an African Sample
The attitudes toward death and dying of 163 Xhosa-speaking respondents living in Transkei, South Africa were assessed by means of semi-structured interviews. Eight aspects of death were studied: personal death, death of others, the right to know about one's impending death, preferred length of life span, preferences for manner of dying, and place of death, euthanasia, and suicide. A number of critical factors in the formation of attitudes were re…
Making History's Silences Speak
An interview with South African biographer, psychologist, and life writing theorist N. C. Manganyi, University of Pretoria, 5 March 2002
On becoming a psychologist in apartheid South Africa
Clinical Psychology training is an arduous journey wherever in the world one pursues it. However, in apartheid South Africa, the experience of becoming a psychologist held its own unique challenges, especially if you were a person of Colour. This article chronicles some of the barriers and hurdles that I had to overcome in order to train as a psychologist in a country where it was almost not expected that Africans could train as clinical psycholo…
Being Black in the World
Being-Black-in-the-World, one of N. Chabani Manganyi's first publications, was written in 1973 at a time of global socio-political change. The Black Consciousness movement had emerged in the mid-1960s and the African continent was throwing off its colonial yoke. In South Africa, renewed resistance to the brutality of apartheid rule would detonate in the Soweto uprising led by black school children three years later. Publication of Being-Black-in-…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Biography (2 works)