Frantz Fanon
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Africa’s voice and power must be underpinned by dignity
For many African public intellectuals such as Steve Biko, Leopold Senghor, Kenneth Kaunda, Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah, political independence represented more than the…
‘Isitha Sabantu’: The new frontier for anti-colonial theatre
A powerful reflection on how Isitha Sabantu channels Fanon’s radical thought into a deeply political, emotionally resonant theatre of resistance and remembrance
The Intensity of beginning
In this unorthodox piece, a lover of Beyoncé, Busi Mhlongo, Brandy and Miriam Makeba, reads the artistic contributions of Nina Simone and Zoë Modiga through the lens of Frantz…
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
Thandiswa Mazwai’s technologies of resistance
Bringing together the traditional and the modern, Thandiswa Mazwai is taking her new album Sankofa to the world
South Africa and Namibia: Why liberation movements fail when they come to power
The ruling elites have demonstrated that they are less interested in democracy than they are in pursuing self interests and the retention of power
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…
Brace yourselves for a new Cold War
Africa is again becoming the stage for the proxy wars of foreign powers
The judicial kidnapping of Julian Assange
Britain’s high court showed no hesitation in sending Julian Assange to his death, living or otherwise.
The Portfolio: ‘neuf-3’ — a public art project in Saint-Denis, Paris
The ‘neuf-3’ art project, curated by Riason Naidoo, aims to pay tribute to the African communities of Saint-Denis — and of Paris
Lewis Nkosi and All the Things We Could Be by Now if We Were Free
The focus of a new book on Lewis Nkosi is his plays rather than his tsotsi-like critiques
Making sense of the South African ‘volcano’
Three texts through which to understand current unrest in South Africa – by Slavoj Žižek, Frantz Fanon and Alan Paton
The ANC is a postcolonial disappointment
How Frantz Fanon’s dire predictions about the postcolony are coming true in South Africa
‘Speaking like falling’: Centring ukhoko’s tongue
Through her praxis, Kholeka Shange interrogates the marginalisation of African languages in the academy
Sol Plaatje and the antinomies of writing against ‘South Africa’
The renowned author’s foundational anti-colonial work deserves more than a dogmatic reading