Europeans Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/europeans/ Arts and African History Fri, 10 May 2024 11:05:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 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 Tigritude: Of the Souls and Spiritual Strivings of Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor https://consciousness.co.za/tigritude-of-the-souls-and-spiritual-strivings-of-aime-cesaire-and-leopold-senghor/ https://consciousness.co.za/tigritude-of-the-souls-and-spiritual-strivings-of-aime-cesaire-and-leopold-senghor/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:07:15 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15003 “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces” (Wole Soyinka, 1964) The Newtonian equation that for every action there is a reaction is not just an axiom in classical physics. It also applies in the so-called social sciences and humanities. French colonialism and imperialism are the condition of possibility for the emergence of the [...]

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