Marcus Garvey is Alive in East Africa
[hr] A university in eastern Uganda, named in honour of the pan African giant, Marcus Garvey, seeks, through the philosophy of Afrikology, to reinstate and mainstream indigenous knowledge systems that were distorted by Greece and Rome. At MPAU, writes Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, the common Eurocentric hierarchies that serve to divide, invalidate and marginalise clearly haven’t […]
How Third World Students Liberated the West
[hr] In a twist to mainstream tropes of radical student movements of the 1960s, and their impact on the history of political thought and action, Pedro Monaville argues that the terrains of the Third World, and particularly the history of student movements in Congo, are vital to explore if we are to makes sense of […]
The Picture
By Suren Pillay The picture swayed from side to side like a feather, and then landed face up. Black and white. A boy. No older than 16. The expression in the eyes, the anger, so concentrated. The deep contrast of the grainy image accentuates the boy’s contorted body as he is flinging a petrol bomb, […]
Inaudible I
By Salim Washington and Winston ‘Mankunku’ Ngozi Winston ‘Mankunku’ Ngozi: Ja, well, the Bellow of the Bull [inaudible]. ‘Yakhal’ Inkomo’ is like about the black people in South Africa. [Inaudible]. We had enough, so we were complaining, you know. You see us laughing, but inside it’s not okay. And I couldn’t say that, you know, […]
Giant Steps – from a film by Aryan Kaganof and Geoff Mphakati
By Aryan Kaganof & Geoff Mphakati We’re only preparing you to get to the less hellish part of hell. Heaven, you’re not going! Father Mathias to Lefifi Tladi January 12, 2008 Geoff Mphakati: I managed Dashiki until it was banned and went underground, until some of its members had to leave the country and go […]