Cecil John Rhodes: British Empire Hitman

In the maiden chapter, Zondi opens with a pedagogic overview befitting of an editor who goes out of his way to channel the direction of the “protracted process” (Pp. 6) of engaging issues of an “African archive” (Pp.7). Zondi’s Chapter 1 built upon the useful foundation and tone, already set by Ethiopian scholar Mammo Muchie, in the didactic foreword.

“I won’t forget the day the sun came shining in!”, so sang internationally beloved South African musician and cultural activist Hugh Masekela and in the four years since his passing the Hugh Masekela Heritage Foundation has continued to hold high the torch of his biggest legacy obsession, “to show Africans, and the world, who the people of Africa really are”.

Where this prevention-focused approach would prove ineffective, the focus would then have to be on the most effective methods for disaster relief interventions, taking into account natural (physical) as well as socio-economic factors.

Scholarship on Black Consciousness in the so-called post-apartheid South Africa is not as prominent as its counterpart within the Congress tradition. The fundamental reason for this is the hegemony and pervasiveness of whiteness and its aversion to the Black Radical Tradition.

It is never an easy thing to disturb the narrative. Courageous artistry, in a world that demands conformity, requires a unique, distinct level of confidence in one’s creative journey.

A city that is as unpredictable as it is calm-as erratic as it is tranquil. Voetsek I love you Jozi, we all tell this cement heartbeat as it pours new life into our dreams and occasionally threatens a sudden cardiac arrest to our ambitions. Voetsek I love you Jozi.