Rikus van Eeden
Rikus van Eeden is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy and literary studies at the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Studies (CLIC), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he works on the AFROPRESS project funded by the European Research Council. AFROPRESS is an interdisciplinary research project studying periodicals from Sub-Saharan Africa published between 1918-68. His own research focuses on the interaction between periodicals and power in South Africa and Uganda. He is currently researching periodicals in the archive of the South African Treason Trial (1956-1961) and in the archive of censorship reports. He is interested in how relative outsiders, even antagonists, understood the periodical form (contrasting this with their engagements with the book form) and in understanding the affordances provided by the periodical form for editors and writers in dealing with their political antagonists.
Journals presented by Rikus van Eeden
New Youth was the magazine of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, based in Johannesburg. It forms part of the broader print ecosystem of the Congress movement in the 1950s. Most of the articles in the magazine appear under pseudonyms like Spartacus, Johnny Youngman, and Leftie, though the names of TIYC members like Moosa ‘Mosie’ Moolla […]
The Young Democrat was a small magazine produced in Johannesburg around 1956 by “a group of girls and boys, ages ranging from 10-14 years” who “disagree with the Government and believe that Peace, Freedom and Equality should reign”. This homespun and informal little political magazine was ‘roneoed’ (stencil duplicated), part typewritten, part handwritten, and hand-illustrated. […]