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A Brief Biography
Andrew Offenburger is a Ph.D. student of African history at Yale University, and he is Founding Editor of Safundi: The Journal of South African & American Studies (www.safundi.com), a quarterly academic journal published by Routledge.
Andrew earned his M.A. in African Studies through Yale's Council on African Studies (2008) and his B.A. in English from Buena Vista University (1998).
While at Yale, Andrew received a Fox International Fellowship for the 2006-2007 academic year, which enabled him to conduct archival and other primary research at the University of Cape Town. This research culminated in his M.A. thesis on the history and cultural memory of the Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-1857 (www.xhosacattlekilling.net).
Andrew is fluent in Spanish and proficient in isiZulu and French.
He is originally from Des Moines, Iowa. His wife, Maria, is from Corrientes, Argentina.
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