She carries the mic as a spear that pierces through trivial non-committed discourse material. Her music is laced with lyrical content armed with cultural value notions associated with aspects of our nature that supports our humanity. Tribute Birdie Mboweni is an on and off the […]
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It is human nature to take lessons from the previous generation and use their strategies as a way of life. This has been noted within the black society mainly because we have been oppressed as the nation for centuries now. Within the political context, the […]
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“We have encountered a race of red ants” (Kunene p 211) “He reported to the Assembly: my lord the country is infested with bad bugs” (Kunene p 207) “Africans believe in the inherent goodness of man” (Biko) “I give you these elephant tusks. They are […]
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“We take our stand on the principle that Afrika is one and desires to be one and nobody, I repeat, nobody has the right to balkanize our land” – Robert Sobukwe (1959) Post-apartheid South Africa turned 23 years this year and amidst all the festivities […]
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Dr Mama Marimba Ani says our culture is our immune system, referring both to the petri dish culture of microbiology and the social ‘construct’ of culture. Both these concepts describe a type incubator of practices, beliefs, patterns of logic, behaviours and emotional responses of a […]
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This essay discusses the idea that Modernity is the triumph of reason or logos over mythos. It also highlights the fact that this “rampant’ Rationalisation of existence is destructive to the ontologico-metaphysical and epistemologico-legal paradigm of the conquered who is colonised by this Eurocentric view […]
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‘However, the use of the term ‘dis-cover’ implies that the point of departure in this process is the European ego which is a constituent element of the historical event……. The European ego turns the newly dis-covered primitive native into a mere object a thing which […]
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“Even though the captive flesh/body has been “liberated” and no one need pretend that even the quotation mark do not matter, dominant symbolic activity the ruling episteme that releases the dynamics of naming and valuation, remains grounded in the originating metaphors of captivity and mutilation […]
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