ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Pitzer College — a private, undergraduate, coeducational college of the liberal arts and sciences — is consistently ranked among the best such colleges in the country. Located in Claremont, California, a suburb about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, Pitzer is an intimate college backed by the resources of The Claremont Colleges. Blending classroom instruction with fieldwork, Pitzer engages a student's mind, heart and spirit by integrating educational resources on campus, abroad and in the local community.
Pitzer offers a curriculum that spans more than 40 major fields and focuses on interdisciplinary, intercultural education with an emphasis on social responsibility and community service. Founded in 1963, Pitzer College offers a comprehensive curriculum in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences leading to the bachelor of arts degree.
Pitzer College celebrates cultural diversity and intercultural understanding. Students of ethnically diverse backgrounds come from all parts of the United States, as well as from nearly 20 other countries.
Pitzer College has wholeheartedly financially supported me over the last decade or so (1995-2005) in the construction of this website. This unwavering support continues in the present. For this I am truely grateful.
AUBREY MONDE MASILELA is one of three brothers who follow after me. He is two years younger. After him follows another brother who is a General Manager of a Bank in Pretoria , Basuke, who is four years younger than me. Finally there is the baby of my family but the toughest of us politically, Temba, who is eight years younger than me and is presently the principal adviser to the Minister of Social Development in Pretoria . Monde has always been a tough competitor, triggering for decades nightmares in me. When we were in High School in exile in Kenya in the 1960s at Upper Hill School (former Delamere Boys School ), he forced me to retire from playing soccer. He was so good that at the age of sixteen that the Kenya Soccer Federation wanted him to try out for the national team but he could not since we were not citizens. Also in High School Monde chased me from the Sciences into the Humanities because he was excellent in Chemistry and Physics. He obtained a medical degree from the University of Nairobi Medical School in the middle 1970s. He spent about three to five years working in small hospitals way out in the countryside. He came to Chicago in 1980 or 1981 to obtain a higher degree in Internal Medicine. He worked for sometime at the huge Cook County Hospital in Chicago for about a decade. Presently he works in a private hospital in Fayetville in North Carolina . Monde has given me approximately $25,000 over the years towards the construction of this website . I'm privileged to have such a great and close family. My Mother deserves all the credit for all of this for sure, especially after my Father died in Kenya in 1968. But I must admit that I'm startled that my brother actually knows how to dance or is he merely pretending!
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TECHNOLOGY AT PITZER COLLEGE
JOANNE ZHANG has been involved in the construction of the NEW AFRICAN MOVEMENT website from its inception. In a real and true sense, she is the author of it as I am. That is the reason from time to time she vetoes certain things I propose to do. These denials have made the website better and stronger, and even more beautiful. She provides computer related support to using technology in teaching and research to all Pitzer Faculty. Consequently, concerning the construction of this website, she has provided the design structure of the interface as well as the scanning of the archival material. She was born in China . She obtained an M. A. degree in Education from the University of Canberra in Australia . She received another M. A. degree in Instructional Technology from California State University in Los Angeles . Joanne Zhang is an extraordinary intellectual force behind the construction of this project. It needs no stating that without her incredible assistance this undertaking would not have been possible.
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HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE
ISABEL BALSEIRO is a Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Harvey Mudd College , which is one of the consortium of six colleges to which Pitzer College also belongs that form the Claremont Colleges. Her several research trips to South Africa have enabled her to obtain on my behalf archival material that has been instrumental in the construction of the website. She has also photocopied for me important books that were available only in obscure small libraries located in remote areas of South Africa. Even more memorable, she obtained for me pictures of the great South African cultural historian of film, Thelma Gutsche. For this assistance I'm profoundly grateful. She has edited a literary anthology called Running Towards Us: New Writing from South Africa (2000). We co-edited together a book called To Change Reels: Film and Culture in South Africa (2003). She was educated at Barnard College and at New York University . Here areas of expertise are the following: Contemporary Writers and Filmmakers of Africa and South America ( Latin America ); Cultural and Race Studies; and Film and Postcolonial Studies.