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Professor Eka Ikpe – the director of the African Leadership Centre at King’s College London and professor of Development Economics at the African Public Square Global Edition open debate. Photo: Supplied
AFRICAN PUBLIC SQUARE

Innovation, preparedness and African agency in a multipolar world

African public intellectuals have repeatedly concerned themselves about how African societies can act with purpose and autonomy in a global system that has historically limited…

  • Eka Ikpe
9 min read
People’s hero: A mural depicting Amílcar Cabral who was the foremost leader of the struggle for the independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde from Portugal. (Photo by GUIZIOU Franck / hemis.fr / hemis.fr / Hemis via AFP)
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

How Cabral, Fanon and Freire shaped the struggle against apartheid South Africa — and still inspire

Amílcar Cabral was assassinated 50 years ago today. His thought, which sometimes arrived in South Africa via a circuitous route, speaks to our current crisis with undiminished…

  • Richard Pithouse
8 min read
Anti-apartheid actors protest outside the South African embassy in London. (PA Images/Getty Images)
AMILCAR CABRAL

Whither the arts in South Africa’s permanent crisis? The flawed logic of singling out Nathi Mthethwa

It is the ANC as a whole that maintains a bureaucratic view of the arts, failing to afford it its proper place in society

  • Njabulo Zwane
5 min read
May 06 2020 – Musician and drummer Asher Gamedze at his home in Observatory, Cape Town. (David Harrison)
AMILCAR CABRAL
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Dialectic Soul: Rhythms of reason for revolutionary music

Drummer Asher Gamedze’s approach to making music is through a collective process bringing together not only each band member’s response to ideas but also their skills

  • Gwen Ansell
7 min read