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Gabeba Baderoon
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“I enjoy the reading and thinking as well as the discussion and exchange that an academic life involves. I love the smell of old books and newspapers in libraries and archives, and the possibility of original ideas that emerge from long hours in a quiet place.”
Gabeba Baderoon (born 1969) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catching up with Gabeba Baderoon". Research Penn State. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
“I love the creativity that emerges from a university community. Working at Penn State with my colleagues and students feels like being exposed to a constant series of illuminating ideas and opportunities for creative collaborations.”
Gabeba Baderoon (born 1969) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catching up with Gabeba Baderoon". Research Penn State. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
“I love reading and visiting museums and galleries, which is also part of my work. Talking with friends over a home-cooked meal is my favorite way to spend an evening.”
Gabeba Baderoon (born 1969) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catching up with Gabeba Baderoon". Research Penn State. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
“I hope we will have developed partnerships and cooperative relations with scholars in other parts of the world, especially in the Global South. For me, such pooling of intellectual and material resources will generate new and necessary ways of engaging with the world's challenges.”
Gabeba Baderoon (born 1969) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catching up with Gabeba Baderoon". Research Penn State. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
“In August 1996, while I was a Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town, I was struck by a series of news stories in South African newspapers in which the visual and verbal imagery seemed to me highly distinctive. I kept a collection of clippings and eventually these became the basis for my PhD on images of Islam. In the course of my studies, I conducted archival research into colonial-era paintings, newspapers and popular cultures in South Africa, and read these in juxtaposition with contemporary literary representations of Islam. This trajectory of images across two centuries became the material for a theory about representations of slavery and Islam in South Africa.”
Gabeba Baderoon (born 1969) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catching up with Gabeba Baderoon". Research Penn State. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
“They say God laughs when we make plans: He's watched me trace my path away from war-scarred foreign lands, Where AIDS cases and unmarked graves are common as grains of desert sand, Where solemn bargains for slaves are made each day by neighbouring clans; Where I grew up. Soon as I left the womb, I was running; There was always something to escape, be it Ebola Or just that drunkard driving that Range Rover, Racing over potholes, ten shots from being sober... That was me; ever escaping, Hoping, praying and close-shaving, Evading nature's worst and Mankind at its most perverse; No helping hand to rescue me, I was the perfect refugee - See, Ive been arrested, beaten, Seized by police for no reason, Always fleeing by my teeth's skin, Till leaving, Coming to Heathrow, And finding work, and peace, and love With running no longer in my blood.”
Gabeba Baderoon (born 1969) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gabeba Baderoon". Badilisha Poetry Exchange. Archived from the original on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2025.