The Black Colonised & The White Settler Academic

Dr Lwazi Lushaba Culture 2020-09-05 09:34:57

Here I suspect is where we ought to look, for it is where the rain began to beat us. When we do, it will become evident that, twenty-five years after independence, Black people remain excluded from the circuits of knowledge and cultural production in South Africa. Similarly, we have as a logical consequence no role in the determination of our own society’s inter-subjective meanings, and its implicit norms constitutive of social practices.

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Blood Psalms

Television Reporter Culture 2020-09-02 07:47:31

Blood Psalms is an epic series based on ancient African mythology. Currently shooting in the Eastern Cape and Gauteng, Blood Psalms chronicles the rise to power of a fierce teenaged princess, Zazi (Bokang Phelane from Keeping Score, Emoyeni), who battles a world-ending prophecy to navigate her people through ancient curses, long-standing tribal vendettas, and the wrath of the Gods.

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African Contribution to International Relations Theory: An Afrocentric Philosophical Enquiry

Dr. Tshepo Mvulane Moloi Culture 2020-09-02 07:40:37

Political Science, as taught in South Africa, reflected a critical gap of a ‘lack’ (persisting to date) of most insights of ‘black’ Africans. My special interest, was expressly on ‘black’ South Africans (located in Africa or beyond in the diaspora).

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Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South

Special Correspondent Culture 2020-09-01 03:47:23

The exhibition is divided into three areas or worlds. The first is configured around the Fall, a realm where the natural and human worlds meet. The animal-human hybrid figures represent the second world of the exhibition. Hybridity refers to the mingling of species, races or cultures, a crossing of one thing with another.

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New Liberal Party To Replace ANC?

Siyabonga Hadebe Culture 2020-08-31 03:19:05

This opinion piece argues that the time is almost ripe for a liberal party in South Africa, and Herman Mashaba is one of the players who thinks that he is the one to lead the project.

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Celebrating Women in Jazz

Makgotso Nkosi Culture 2020-08-30 05:16:45

The history of jazz music cannot isolate itself from that of women dating as far back as Mbaqanga that had an array of amazing girl bands such as Mahotella Queens, Jabavu Queens, Izintombi Zomoya, Manzini Girls, Dark City Sisters among many others.

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A Review of Retorts to Panashe Chigumadzi’s “Why I am no Longer Talking to Nigerians About Race”

Ajibola Adigun Culture 2020-08-28 04:07:59

It was Fredrich Hayek who said, in his ‘Constitution of Liberty’ – that if old truths are to retain their hold on men’s mind, they must be restated in the language and concepts of successive generations.

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Zoë Modiga, Fela & Kalakuta Queens and Mbuso Khoza @ State Theatre

Special Correspondent Culture 2020-08-28 03:47:40

This heritage month, the South African State Theatre’s (SAST) online programme presents Season 05, which will be headlined by the award-winning Jazz sensation, Zoë Modiga -in a virtual music concert- as well as the culture and heritage enthusiast, and revered musician Mbuso Khoza, performing Amahubo In Concert.

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