A Dance with the Empire: Modiri Molema's Glasgow Years, 1914–1921.

This paper examines Seetsele Modiri Molema's World War I stay in Glasgow during which, in addition to his medical studies, he completed a lengthy argumentative history of African southern Africans. In analysing this vital episode of Molema's life, this paper engages with one of Shula Marks's most substantial contributions to the historiography of the past three decades: the concept of ambiguity as a means of understanding the complex relationship between class and consciousness. Ambiguity characterised Molema's Glasgow experiences, and fuelled the history he wrote during this temporary exile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]