Making peace in South Africa's transition period, 1992-1994

Created by Elizabeth 6 months ago

Dr Moses Anafu was a significant peacemaker in Natal/KwaZulu in the period 1992-1994, as a leading member of the Commonwealth Observer Mission in South Africa (COMSA) , working with the peace committees under South Africa's National Peace Accord. As the son of a chief he understood traditional dynamics and was able to draw Zulu traditional leaders into positive grassroots peacemaking.  

I interviewed Dr Anafu about his work with COMSA  on 30 December 1913, when he happened to be in hospital following a fall, and wrote up this story in this book, published in 2022: Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa. The National Peace Accord 1991 - 1994.

https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781847013682/peacemaking-and-peacebuilding-in-south-africa/

Dr Anafu told me that he hoped to use the archives in Oxford in order to complete his own research on Ghanaian chiefs. He phoned me about this a couple of years after we met, and I gave him the contact details for the African collections at the Bodleian Library, but I was sorry not to be able to help him further and I did not hear any more. I wonder if that project progressed?  

With best wishes, Liz Carmichael.

Revd Dr Liz Carmichael MBE, St John's College, Oxford, OX1 3JP