Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/ Arts and African History Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:40:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 No Humans Involved: US Constitutionalism and the Permanence of Racism https://consciousness.co.za/no-humans-involved-us-constitutionalism-and-the-permanence-of-racism/ https://consciousness.co.za/no-humans-involved-us-constitutionalism-and-the-permanence-of-racism/#respond Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:27:21 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15121 What, then, is “the view from the bridge”? The outlook is grim. For the black people of the world there is no bright tomorrow. The Blacks may continue to live in their dream of singing, dancing, marching, praying and hoping, because of the deluding signs of what looks like victories, still trusting in the ultimate [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/no-humans-involved-us-constitutionalism-and-the-permanence-of-racism/feed/ 0 The Mirrored Stage: Fifty Years of Truth at The Market https://consciousness.co.za/the-mirrored-stage-fifty-years-of-truth-at-the-market/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-mirrored-stage-fifty-years-of-truth-at-the-market/#respond Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:38:39 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15125 A creative movement can only be regarded as a concrete statement of truth when it is exhaustively tried, tested, and cross-examined by history. Even a slight fracture in its foundation raises questions about the integrity of its core. On 11 June 1976—just five days before the Soweto Uprising would forever change South Africa—an institution dedicated [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-mirrored-stage-fifty-years-of-truth-at-the-market/feed/ 0 Afrika for the Afrikans and the end of South Africa https://consciousness.co.za/afrika-for-the-afrikans-and-the-end-of-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/afrika-for-the-afrikans-and-the-end-of-south-africa/#respond Tue, 12 May 2026 16:57:11 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15119 ‘I do not want to South Africa anymore; I want to Azania’ (Makhafula Vilakazi in Words). The deadly resurgence of the ridiculous black-on-black violence that advances white supremacy in South Africa in the form of the so-called xenophobic attacks on fellow Africans is one of the powerful indictments against the poisonous idea of South Africa. [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/afrika-for-the-afrikans-and-the-end-of-south-africa/feed/ 0 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 Sabbatical: A Mother’s Scorn, a Daughter’s Descent, and the Ghosts of a Nation’s Past https://consciousness.co.za/sabbatical-a-mothers-scorn-a-daughters-descent-and-the-ghosts-of-a-nations-past/ https://consciousness.co.za/sabbatical-a-mothers-scorn-a-daughters-descent-and-the-ghosts-of-a-nations-past/#respond Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:24:16 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15097 Diprente, it seems, isn’t content with mere entertainment; they’re excavating the raw nerve of South African society with Sabbatical, a film that grips you by the throat and refuses to let go. Forget your predictable narratives of aspiration; Karabo Lediga’s latest offering is a searing indictment of ambition untethered from morality, a brutal examination of [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/sabbatical-a-mothers-scorn-a-daughters-descent-and-the-ghosts-of-a-nations-past/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 A telling tale that keeps giving https://consciousness.co.za/a-telling-tale-that-keeps-giving/ https://consciousness.co.za/a-telling-tale-that-keeps-giving/#respond Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:59:40 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15077 Storytelling is one of the most intricate and thickest tentacles of soft power. It maps and drives the compass of the mind into a labyrinth flurry of thought, expression, emotion, stimulation and a direction. A host of writers and authors have told stories that speak to the listener and readers in variable forms, tiers and [...]

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