Dr Mamphela Ramphele’s book begins with an angry young man, and a Sepedi phrase: “Mabu a u tswitswe” – “The soil has been stolen.” The young man who spoke these words, Ramphele informs her readers, had no need to explain them or elaborate on his meaning; his idiomatic call to arms in defence of the land spoke for itself
Es'kia Mphahlele is one of the doyens of African literature. Throughout Africa, Europe and the United States of America he has played a major role in the development, teaching and promotion of African literature. He has written autobiographies, criticism, works of fiction, poetry, plays and essays.
In October 1972, Steve Biko was employed by the black division of the Study Project of Christianity in Apartheid Society (SPRO-CAS), which had its office in the same building as the South African Student Organization (SASO) at 86 Beatrice Street, Durban. American political scientist Gail M.
The Kenya School of Laws, Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, is in South Africa at the invitation of the National Heritage Council and O.R Tambo District Municipality to speak at the Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture to celebrate the centenary of Mandela.
Professor Mahmood Mamdani, a global authority on decolonisation, delivered this year’s TB Davie Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, 22 August 2017, at UCT's New Lecture Theatre on Upper Campus. His lecture, titled Decolonising the Post-Colonial University, cut to the heart of debates that are still raging across South Africa’s higher education institutions.
Professor Desiree Lewis of the Women & Gender Studies Department at University of the Western Cape gave a talk on “African feminisms” at the 'African Psychology, African Feminisms, African Studies, Black Psychology, Black Studies and Black Feminisms Break Bread Symposium' on 8 June 2018 at UCT. Prof.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) is a humane period piece but not at all a permanent narrative fiction. I first (and, until now, last) read it when it was published and I was eighteen. More than sixty years later, I have gotten through it again but only just. Its humane sentiments remain admirable but