Opinion and Book Reviews Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/category/opinion-and-book-reviews/ Arts and African History Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:53:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Azanian Family Remembering Bantu Biko, Honouring the Elders Who Tend to Our Liberation History with Care https://consciousness.co.za/the-azanian-family-remembering-bantu-biko-honouring-the-elders-who-tend-to-our-liberation-history-with-care/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-azanian-family-remembering-bantu-biko-honouring-the-elders-who-tend-to-our-liberation-history-with-care/#respond Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:53:22 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15110 Friday, 12 September 2025 Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre We, the generation of Black Power Pan-Afrikanist activist-scholars and truth seekers, stand in profound gratitude to the elders and pathfinders who have safeguarded our liberation history with care, courage, and unyielding commitment. In 1995, in direct defiance of the logics of erasure employed by the so-called democratic [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-azanian-family-remembering-bantu-biko-honouring-the-elders-who-tend-to-our-liberation-history-with-care/feed/ 0 The Third Annual Azanian Decoloniality Community Winter School On Art And Black Radical Thought https://consciousness.co.za/the-third-annual-azanian-decoloniality-community-winter-school-on-art-and-black-radical-thought/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-third-annual-azanian-decoloniality-community-winter-school-on-art-and-black-radical-thought/#respond Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:30:34 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15103 The Blackhouse Kollective – Soweto invites members of the media to the third annual BHK Decolonial Winter School, a powerful five-day gathering of scholars, learners, artists, and activists exploring Black Consciousness, Pan-Africanism, and decolonial futures. Taking place from 29 July to 2 August 2025, the Winter School is unlike any ordinary academic or political event. [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-third-annual-azanian-decoloniality-community-winter-school-on-art-and-black-radical-thought/feed/ 0 Heritage and Transmission: A Reading of Sobukwe. https://consciousness.co.za/heritage-and-transmission-a-reading-of-sobukwe/ https://consciousness.co.za/heritage-and-transmission-a-reading-of-sobukwe/#respond Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:05:16 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15086 “l am a simple African man doing my duty,  in my own country in the context of our time.”  AMILCAR CABRAL The history of philosophy is characterized by particular thoughts of philosophers. This implies that by studying the history of philosophy we also study the account of the thoughts of particular philosophers. It is in [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/heritage-and-transmission-a-reading-of-sobukwe/feed/ 0 Western legal philosophy of conquest, the ANC and the ideology of Human Rights in “South Africa” https://consciousness.co.za/western-legal-philosophy-of-conquest-the-anc-and-the-ideology-of-human-rights-in-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/western-legal-philosophy-of-conquest-the-anc-and-the-ideology-of-human-rights-in-south-africa/#respond Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:01:11 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15091 Introduction Before the dominance of the Charterist tradition, as represented by the African National Congress (ANC) as a civil rights movement, 21 March 1960 was celebrated as the day of the Sharpeville Massacre. This massacre of Africans by the Apartheid regime was the most violent expression of settler colonialism in “South Africa”[1]. The uprising, leading [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/western-legal-philosophy-of-conquest-the-anc-and-the-ideology-of-human-rights-in-south-africa/feed/ 0 Biko and the biography of Black people https://consciousness.co.za/biko-and-the-biography-of-black-people/ https://consciousness.co.za/biko-and-the-biography-of-black-people/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:48:16 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15082 At the heart of white settler colonialism is land dispossession which was accompanied by epistemicide. The individual and collective identity of the victims of land dispossession and epistemicide is anchored in the territory they have occupied and exercised sovereignty over since time immemorial. Thus, the history of individual and collective identity is also a political [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/biko-and-the-biography-of-black-people/feed/ 0 Prof Chabani Manganyi, JET’s first CEO https://consciousness.co.za/prof-chabani-manganyi-jets-first-ceo/ https://consciousness.co.za/prof-chabani-manganyi-jets-first-ceo/#respond Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:15:46 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15064 As the first Executive Director of the Joint Education Trust, along side Nick Taylor, Prof. Manganyi became the champion benefactor to support the establishment of the Funda Community College, as we imagine it today, in 1994. As a close associate of Prof. Eskia Mphahlele he contributed towards 1. The building of the new Central Administration [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/prof-chabani-manganyi-jets-first-ceo/feed/ 0 A Heartfelt Gratitude to Dr. Kgafela oa Magogodi for an Inspiring Workshop at the Afrikan Winter Skool at Funda Community College https://consciousness.co.za/a-heartfelt-gratitude-to-dr-kgafela-oa-magogodi-for-an-inspiring-workshop-at-the-afrikan-winter-skool-at-funda-community-college/ https://consciousness.co.za/a-heartfelt-gratitude-to-dr-kgafela-oa-magogodi-for-an-inspiring-workshop-at-the-afrikan-winter-skool-at-funda-community-college/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2024 18:02:45 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15030 On Sunday, June 23, 2024, Blackhouse Kollective and eBukhosini Solutions hosted a transformative Afrikan Winter Skool workshop at Funda Community College. This event, led by the extraordinary Dr. Kgafela oa Magogodi, was a deep dive into the art of storytelling, transcending traditional boundaries to explore history, life, and identity. The workshop aimed to prepare the [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/a-heartfelt-gratitude-to-dr-kgafela-oa-magogodi-for-an-inspiring-workshop-at-the-afrikan-winter-skool-at-funda-community-college/feed/ 0 Thirty years of South African constitutional democracy and the crisis of Black Thought https://consciousness.co.za/thirty-years-of-south-african-constitutional-democracy-and-the-crisis-of-black-thought/ https://consciousness.co.za/thirty-years-of-south-african-constitutional-democracy-and-the-crisis-of-black-thought/#respond Fri, 10 May 2024 10:00:42 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15026 The year 2024 marks the so-called 30 years of constitutional democracy in South Africa. To those who subscribe to this idea, the so-called first democratic elections of 1994 mark the beginning of a nonracial democratic dispensation in South Africa. Reconciliation between blacks and whites through the “entrancing” magic of Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela symbolised [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/thirty-years-of-south-african-constitutional-democracy-and-the-crisis-of-black-thought/feed/ 0 South Africa’s constitutional democracy and thirty years without Izwe Lethu https://consciousness.co.za/south-africas-constitutional-democracy-and-thirty-years-without-izwe-lethu/ https://consciousness.co.za/south-africas-constitutional-democracy-and-thirty-years-without-izwe-lethu/#respond Thu, 09 May 2024 15:01:36 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15022 Jan Van Riebeek once stated in the late 1600s that the Dutch settlers who dispossessed the Indigenous people of their land through “defensive warfare” intend to retain the land. Van Riebeek was affirming without shame “the right of conquest” and laying the foundation of South Africa and white settler constitutionalism which are based on land [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/south-africas-constitutional-democracy-and-thirty-years-without-izwe-lethu/feed/ 0 Cape Independence and “the right of conquest” in South Africa https://consciousness.co.za/cape-independence-and-the-right-of-conquest-in-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/cape-independence-and-the-right-of-conquest-in-south-africa/#respond Thu, 02 May 2024 18:05:35 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15000 ”The white man is coming, and it is he who will rule you, and you will be his servants” ( Chaka by Thomas Mofolo). To fully comprehend the call for Cape Independence, one must have a solid understanding of the long history of the idea and political formation called South Africa. While the evolution of [...]

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