Mai Palmberg

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Sweden
Title	Research Co-ordinator
Affiliation	Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden
Email	mai.palmberg@nai.uu.se
Mailing Address	The Nordic Africa Institute Box 1703 SE-751 47 Uppsala Sweden
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: +46 18 56 22 39 fax: +46 18 56 22 90
Websites	http://www.nai.uu.se/
Countries of Specialization	Zambia, South Africa
Research Interests	Co-ordinator of a research project on "Cultural Images in and of Africa". Has written on socialist orientation in Africa, Africa images in Swedish and Finnish schoolbooks, the liberation struggle of Southern Africa, Swedish companies in South Africa, the workers' political role in Zambia, AIDS in Africa, humanism and racism, the Afrikaners as a national minority, new South Africa and the ANC platform, on homosexuality and human rights in Southern Africa, on music and national identity in Cape Verde, and on popular music in Zimbabwe's crisis.
Publications	None on file.
Keywords	humanism ; racism ; human rights ; homosexuality ; identity ; AIDS ; Southern Africa