mini biography Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/mini-biography/ Arts and African History Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:48:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 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 Mini Biography – Mama Dorothy Masuku https://consciousness.co.za/mini-biography-mama-dorothy-masuku/ https://consciousness.co.za/mini-biography-mama-dorothy-masuku/#respond Sat, 16 Feb 2013 20:29:50 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=6044 Dorothy Masuka is an African musical treasure, one of the continent’s all-time greatest vocalists and performers, and one of its greatest and most prolific composers as well. She was born Dorothy Masuku (‘Masuka’ is actually a miss-spelling that originated with the record labels on her earliest recordings) in 1935 in Bulawayo in what is now [...]

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