Michael Schmidt is an award-winning, best-selling African non-fiction author with six books published and another four in the pipeline.
With a career spanning 35 years, he is the ...view moreMichael Schmidt is an award-winning, best-selling African non-fiction author with six books published and another four in the pipeline.
With a career spanning 35 years, he is the author of several monographs and innumerable journal and newspaper articles, with a focus on global subaltern (especially anarchist movement) history and politics, human rights, artistic freeddoms and transitional justice, and African affairs including in the military, space tech, and maritime environments.
His last book, Death Flight: Apartheid's Secret Doctrine of Disappearance (Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2020), detailed for the first time the operations over 1979-1987 of an ultra-secret Special Forces unit which murdered hundreds of anti-apartheid detainees and dumped their bodies in the ocean from light aircraft, Argentine-style.
He is a 2009 Fellow of the Academic Leaders’ Programme at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, a 2011 Fellow of the International Institute for Journalism (IIJ), Germany (since absorbed into the Deutsche Welle Akademie), a 2011 Clive Menell Media Fellow at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy at Duke University, USA, and a 2017 Fellow of the inaugural Arts Rights Justice Academy (ARJA) at Universität Hildesheim, Germany.view less