Comments on: The Contestation Of Ideas https://consciousness.co.za/the-contestation-of-ideas/ Arts and African History Sat, 27 Dec 2014 15:57:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: George Baoley https://consciousness.co.za/the-contestation-of-ideas/#comment-25522 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:59:52 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=5188#comment-25522 What a marvelous piece. One of the best ever in this venue. So much thought.

]]> By: Karabo Mkhabela https://consciousness.co.za/the-contestation-of-ideas/#comment-25519 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:33:15 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=5188#comment-25519 One week before his assassination, in a speech marking the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Thomas Sankara declared: ‘Ideas cannot be killed, ideas never die.’

Till this day his memory is a guiding force for many, especially the ‘wretched of the Earth’(phrase from Frantz Fanon)- The media is indeed an invaluable tool in the contestation of these ideas, but as you mentioned Mr. Sibeko – social media (the internet in general)has given many lay ‘man and intellectuals the same a voice to battle in this “Contestation of Ideas”…

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