Name Gabeba Baderoon | ||
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Books The dream in the next body, A hundred silences, Regarding Muslims: From Sla | ||
Gabeba baderoon the silence before speaking
Gabeba Baderoon is the 2005 recipient of the Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry. She was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on 21 February 1969. She currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, and Pennsylvania, USA, and serves as an Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and African and African American Studies at Penn State.
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- Gabeba baderoon the silence before speaking
- Education
- Poetry Collections
- Awards
- Gabeba baderoon on islam in africa
- Gabeba baderoon at vaxjo university
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Education

In 1989 she received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town in English and Psychology. In 1991 she received her Honours Degree in English (awarded in the First Class) from the University of Cape Town BA Honours program. She attained her Master of Arts in English with Distinction at the University of Cape Town in Postmodernist Television (Media Studies) and in 2004 completed her doctoral studies in Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, the same year spending time at the University of Sheffield, UK, as a Visiting Scholar. She also completed her dissertation entitled, "Oblique Figures: Representations of Islam in South African Media and Culture."
Poetry Collections

Awards
