Thirty years of South African constitutional democracy and the crisis of Black Thought
The year 2024 marks the so-called 30 years of constitutional democracy in South Africa. To…
Author Masilo Lepuru
Masilo Lepuru
My name is Masilo Lepuru. I am an African-centred researcher and a Pan-African thinker. I am interested in African philosophy, history and literature. My writings are influenced by Garveyism and its pursuit of a race-first Pan-African revolution to create a new African world order. I am also interested in the study of South African history and political thought such as the Black Consciousness of Biko and Pan-Africanism of the likes of Sobukwe. However by biggest interest lies in the political philosophy of Anton Lembede. Lembede's Africanism is my passionate philosophical interest at the moment. I am also a researcher and founding director of the Institute for Kemetic and Marcus Garvey Studies (IKMGS). My research interests are broad and include African philosophy, Jurisprudence, the Black Radical Tradition, African history, literature, South African history, and politics.
South Africa’s constitutional democracy and thirty years without Izwe Lethu
Jan Van Riebeek once stated in the late 1600s that the Dutch settlers who dispossessed…
Cape Independence and “the right of conquest” in South Africa
”The white man is coming, and it is he who will rule you, and you…
The Sharpeville Massacre and the myth of “Human Rights Day”
In 1983 a book entitled “The rise of Azania: The fall of South Africa” by…
South Africa and the pitfalls of solidarity: A case of Israel and Palestine
“The biggest mistake the black world ever made was to assume that whoever opposed apartheid…
The Sharpeville massacre and the persistent problem of white settler colonialism in “South Africa”: A Dialectical Analysis
There is a dialectical relation between colonisation and decolonisation. This dialectical relation is dyadic and…
The problem of Afrikan politics and the danger of white politics in South Africa
One of the significant benefits of an Afrikan-centred study of European thought and behaviour is…
Tigritude: Of the Souls and Spiritual Strivings of Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor
“A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces” (Wole Soyinka, 1964) The Newtonian equation…
The International Court of Justice ruling and the war in Palestine: An Afrikan lesson
The recent outcome of the International Court of Justice regarding the Israeli war against Palestine…
Tsietsi Mashinini and the decline of Black Power in “post-Apartheid South Africa”
The 27th of January marks the birthday of Tsietsi Mashinini who in terms of South…
The poverty of Black Constitutional critique and the libidinal economy of South Africa
“I do not want to rainbow without bread, I do not want to hate Cecil…
The Lost Intellectual Orphan
The Lost “Intellectual Orphan” of the ANC: A Review of Radebe, M.J. (2022). The Lost…
The ideology of Human Rights as a Eurocentric enterprise
Conquest, the ANC and the ideology of Human Rights in South Africa Prior to the…
Afrika month celebration and the outstanding issue of liberation
The historical context of the celebration In 1963 the Organization of African Unity decided to…
Heritage and the Madness of the Rainbow Nation
“How indeed would a living understanding come to those, who have fled knowledge of the source?”…
Notes on the Azanian Tradition Today: Towards the restoration of Lembede’s Africa for the Africans.
The hegemony of the Congress tradition in the so-called post-Apartheid South Africa as inscribed in…
Notes on a Prolegomenon of an African Revolution: Towards Radical Garveyism
All revolutions and counterrevolutions are premised on some kind of a social and political ontology.…
South Africanism 2.0 and Operation Dudula
“You in the castle of your skin, I the swineherd” (Derek Walcott) The great John…
How they mistook the map for the territory: The trouble with Afro-pessimists
Afro-pessimism and its counterpart in the Black Radical Tradition, Critical Race Theory have been subjects…
South African non-racialism and its discontents
The resolution of the national question is one of the conditions of possibility for the…