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Jonny Steinberg

Jonny Steinberg
Jonny Steinberg is the author of several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africa’s transition to democracy, including Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage. A two-time winner of South Africa’s premier nonfiction award and an inaugural winner of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize, Steinberg was professor of African Studies at Oxford University and currently teaches part-time at Yale and at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) in Johannesburg.


How Nelson Mandela Became a Pop-Cultural Icon Through Music

Jonny Steinberg on Jerry Dammers and How a Famous Concert in the 1980s Brought Mandela New Fame
May 11, 2023  By Jonny Steinberg
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