Yonela Boya, Author at Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/author/yonela/ Arts and African History Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:13:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Black History Month Presentation – African History and The Need for Reparations https://consciousness.co.za/black-history-month-presentation-reparations/ https://consciousness.co.za/black-history-month-presentation-reparations/#respond Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:56:27 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13346 The context within which we are gathered here today is a Pan Afrikan Nationalist context. We commemorate Black History month not to feel good about ourselves, it is not an exercise to just feel a moments pride at discovering our beautiful ancient history because our present is not so beautiful. That’s just part of it. [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/black-history-month-presentation-reparations/feed/ 0 We must unite now or perish https://consciousness.co.za/we-must-unite-now-or-perish/ https://consciousness.co.za/we-must-unite-now-or-perish/#respond Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:45:16 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13331 “We must unite now or perish… We must recognise that our economic independence resides in our African union and requires the same concentration upon the political achievement.” These are words uttered by ancestor Kwame Nkruma in his speech at the founding of the Organisation of Afrikan Unity (OAU) in 1963. I begin writing this essay [...]

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