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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sparks, Stephen

Titel

Bill Freund (1944–2020)

Ist Teil von

• Africa (London. 1928), 2021-02, Vol.91 (2), p.354-355

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Professor Bill Freund's death in August 2020 prompted a remarkable outpouring of grief within the (now widely distributed) Durban-based left intellectual networks of which he was such a central part. This had something to do with the circumstances of Bill's passing, during the global Coronavirus ‘lockdown’, but it is also a testament to how well-loved and influential Bill has been, even if he personally felt that he did not enjoy the recognition that he perhaps deserved. Freund was no ordinary scholar of Africa. Clicking through his Google Scholar citations is to be immediately humbled by the sheer volume of his scholarly production. But he was not one for slicing his salmon too thinly or opportunistic milking of state publication subsidies: every essay, book review and monograph oozes the erudition, insights and reach of an intellectual giant with a prodigious reading habit.