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Derek Hook

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Derek Hook

Anti-apartheid activist: Robert Sobukwe, leader of the Pan Africanist Congress, in his cell at the prison on Robben Island. Derek Hook and Leswin Laubscher’s book Darkest Before Dawn tells the story of the years after his release. Photo: Getty Images
ACHILLE MBEMBE

Sobukwe and the Red Berets

This is an edited extract from the book Darkest Before Dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Sobukwe

  • Derek Hook
  • Leswin Laubscher
7 min read
DEREK HOOK

Play it again Slavoj

Slavoj Zizek is Western academia’s newest intellectual hero; the <i>enfant terrible</i> of cultural studies, writes Derek Hook.

  • Derek Hook
6 min read

A life of struggle

REVIEW: Frantz Fanon: A Life by David Macey (Granta)

  • Derek Hook
5 min read