Thabo Mbeki Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/thabo-mbeki/ Arts and African History Thu, 02 May 2024 18:18:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 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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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/tigritude-of-the-souls-and-spiritual-strivings-of-aime-cesaire-and-leopold-senghor/feed/ 0 Suggested Reading Material For Young Africanists by The Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute https://consciousness.co.za/suggested-reading-material-young-africanists-by-the-thabo-mbeki-african-leadership-institute/ https://consciousness.co.za/suggested-reading-material-young-africanists-by-the-thabo-mbeki-african-leadership-institute/#respond Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:08:54 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=7797 from http://thabombekiafricanleadershipinstitute.blogspot.com Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute (TMALI)   The following books are by recommendation of former President and Patron of TMALI, Mr Thabo Mbeki as a means to empower properly, to act as conscious activists for the victory of the African Renaissance, the African youth must learn the habit and discipline of reading, asking questions and daring [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/suggested-reading-material-young-africanists-by-the-thabo-mbeki-african-leadership-institute/feed/ 0 My problem with the “I am An African” speech https://consciousness.co.za/my-problem-with-the-i-am-an-african-speech/ https://consciousness.co.za/my-problem-with-the-i-am-an-african-speech/#respond Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:52:48 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13744 A critique of the speech made by Thabo Mbeki on behalf of the African National Congress in Cape Town on 8 May 1996, on the occasion of the passing of the new Constitution of South Africa. I find this to be a disturbing poetic rendition of mixed up subservient statements and eloquently expressed notions, dancing in a [...]

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