
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…
Masilo Lepuru is an African philosopher who teaches philosophy at the University of South Africa, Department of Philosophy and literature at the University of California, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. Lepuru also works as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg. He has also worked as a Research and Teaching Associate and law lecturer at the Wits School of Law. Lepuru is a Researcher and founding director of the Institute for Kemetic and Marcus Garvey Studies. His research interests are broad and include African philosophy, Jurisprudence, the Black Radical Tradition, African history, literature, South African history, and politics. He has a number of publications which appear in peer-reviewed journals both domestically and internationally. He has presented several conference papers and published numerous opinion pieces in South African newspapers such as Independent Online and Sowetan.
Afro-pessimism and its counterpart in the Black Radical Tradition, Critical Race Theory have been subjects…
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