Building race relations beyond the grave in South Africa: Reflections on the legacy of Maurice Webb the Quaker
Key information
- Date
- Time
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1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Library
- Room
- E17
About this event
Professor R. Simangaliso Kumalo, of the University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, will give a critical analysis of the work of Maurice Webb.
Webb was an English migrant who moved to South Africa in 1920 and joined the struggle for the end of colonisation and apartheid, leaving a tremendous legacy of building race relations. Webb was influenced by his faith as a Quaker to work for the equality of human beings in a society that emphasised racial inequality. His legacy lives on at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the United Theological College in Harare Zimbabwe.
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About the speaker:
Professor R Simangaliso Kumalo is Dean of the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg and Director of the Centre for Constructive Theology in Southern Africa.
His research focus is on Religion and Governance, Religion and the Environment, Church and Politics and Public Theology and the Social History of Methodism in Southern Africa. He has written six books and over 60 chapters in books and academic journals and is currently carrying out research for a new publication on Maurice Webb.
