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Excavating memory: Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson, here pictured in Ethiopia, celebrated black culture and taught a generation of black intellectuals to think, and laugh, the authors remember. (Photo: Courtesy of Jill Bradbury)
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

In the castle of Bheki Peterson’s care

A master of anecdotes, the late Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson raised a generation of black thinkers

  • Mapule Mohulatsi
  • Zuko Zikalala
  • Thobile Ndimande
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