Professor Shula Marks

Annie Lennox is an international music star, who first shot to fame as the lead singer of the 80s duo Eurythmics. In 1991, after her split with Dave Stewart, she embarked on a highly successful solo career. She has won a host of awards for her contribution to music including numerous BRIT awards, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Golden Globe. She has always had an active interest and involvement in social issues, from her work with the Homeless charity ‘Shelter’ in 1990, to her performances in 2003 and 2005 at the 46664 concerts in aid of the Nelson Mandela Aids Foundation, to her involvement with the Tsunami Appeal, Comic Relief, Live 8, and the Make Poverty History Campaign.

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Shula Marks is an Emeritus Professor and Fellow of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Distinguished Research Fellow of the School of Advanced Study in the University of London. A former Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, she is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Cape Town and Natal. She has lectured and written widely on South African history, and has a particular interest in the history of health and medicine in South Africa. In 1983 she co-authored a WHO monograph on Health and Apartheid, and in 1994 she wrote a major study on the history of nursing in South Africa, entitled Divided Sisterhood. Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession. Given these interests, she has a passionate concern to help in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS in contemporary South Africa.