Africa

South Africa

University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

sophias@iafrica.com; fgmss@rs.uovs.ac.za

Department of History
University of the Orange Free State
P.O. Box 339
Bloemfontein
9300
South Africa

phone: +27 - 51 - 401 2330
fax: +27 - 51 - 5224119

South Africa

Environmental history, specialising in the history of environmentalism in
South Africa, and the environmental struggles that surround multinational
oil companies' involvement in Africa.

Teaching at undergraduate and post-graduate levels:
Pre-colonial and colonial Africa; the social, political, economic and
environmental challenges of independent Africa; the land issue in South
African history; the history of the anti-apartheid movement (1948-1990);
democratisation in South Africa; the environmental impact of apartheid.

P. Steyn and A. Wessels, "Environmental non-governmental contributions to
the global environmental movement, 1962-1992" in Journal for Contemporary
History 24(2), December 1999, pp. 96-113.

P. Steyn and A. Wessels, "The roots of contemporary environmental and
non-governmental environmental activities in South Africa, 1654-1972" in
New Contree 45, September 1999, pp. 61-81.

P. Steyn and A. Wessels, " '(S)hell in Nigeria'? - Ken Saro-Wiwa en die
stryd van die Ogoni" in Journal for Contemporary History 23(2), December
1998, pp. 81-100. [Ken Saro-Wiwa and the struggle of the Ogoni]

environmental history ; South Africa ; environmental struggles ; Ken Saro-Wiwa ; independent Africa.