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Jozi Book Fair 2011 will be held at the Africa Museum, in Newtown, Johannesburg. The Jozi Book Fair has entered into a partnership with Museum Africa, which saw the first edition of the JBF held at Museum Africa. In the words of the curators, Museum Africa is a journey back into the glory years of the Africa continent’s past, when the first civilisations thrived. It is not a revisionist African history written by biased Afrocentric scholars. The journey through Africa’s history visits places like Kemet, now known as Egypt, Kush (Sudan) and Punt (Somalia), which the ancients called ‘God’s country’. Museum Africa is about a time the world forgot; a time very little of the world knows; a rich history with which a generation of black children can identify and correct the record on African history as it has been presented up until now.

Museum Africa’s collection and research focuses on indigenous African cultures, history and archaeology, and linguistics, and the collection of rock art is more than impressive. The collected works of art contain many local artists as well as Pre-Raphaelite and Impressionist paintings.

One of the main displays covers the Treason Trial where more than 150 people who included Nelson Mandela, Albert Luthuli and Walter Sisulu, were charged with treason, with no convictions. The defendants are each portrayed in a display that contains their portrait and a small biographical plaque. Under each portrait is a little red book in which the public is invited to write comments and facts about the person.

Museum Africa provide top-class spaces for exhibitions and events, and Jozi Book Fair has found great synergies with the Museum.

ADDRESS: 
- Newtown Cultural Precinct



OPENING HOURS:
-Tuesday to Sunday - 9:00 to 17:00

Map to Museum Africa: