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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
7 min read
Target: Looters and arsonists attacked Mobeni during the unrest. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP)
DECODING

Encoding and decoding social unrest: A semiotic analysis of the ‘Zuma protests’

Labelling the protestors as looters denies the political consciousness of those living in precarity, it unconscionably encodes a criminal stereotype over the poor and erases any…

  • Ayub Sheik
5 min read
Majority rule: Zimbabweans struggled for many years to achieve majority rule peacefully, but faced with a white minority determined to hold on to privileges, the armed struggle became the only option. (Basler Afrika Bibliographien)
1980

Soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionary: Marley and the birth of Zimbabwe

The iconic concert to celebrate independence in Zimbabwe would prove to contain a warning

  • Percy Zvomuya
10 min read