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Thisbook maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. The author looks atthe Black Nationalist thought in South Africa and its genealogy. Colonialmodernity and coloniality of power and their equally sinister accessories, war,murder, rape and genocide have had a lasting impact onto those unfortunateenough to receive such ghastly visitations. Tafira explores a range of topicsincluding youth political movement, the social construction of blackness inAzania, and conceptualizations from the Black Liberation Movement.
List of contents
Introduction.- .1. The Black Nationalist Movement in Azania.- .2. BC and its Fortunes After 1976.- .3. BC in the Postapartheid Era.- .4. Some Considerations in a Youth Political Movement.- .5. Youth Politics, Agency and Subjectivity.- .6. The Social Construction of Blackness in Azania.- .7. The Black Middle Class and Black Struggles.- .8. Culture and History in the Black Struggles for Liberation.- .9. Collaboration, Complicity and "Selling - Out" In South Africa Historiography.- .10. Transference and Re (de) placement and The edge Towards a Postcolonial Conundrum.- .11. The Idea of the Nation in South Africa, 1940 to post 1994: Conceptualisations from the Black Liberation Movement.- .12. Symbols, Symbolism and the New Social Order.- Concluding Remarks.
About the author
Kenneth
Tafira is Postdoctoral Fellow at Archie Mafeje Research Institute, University
of South Africa. He holds a doctoral degree in Anthropology from the University
of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Summary
This
book maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in
1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. The author looks at
the Black Nationalist thought in South Africa and its genealogy. Colonial
modernity and coloniality of power and their equally sinister accessories, war,
murder, rape and genocide have had a lasting impact onto those unfortunate
enough to receive such ghastly visitations. Tafira explores a range of topics
including youth political movement, the social construction of blackness in
Azania, and conceptualizations from the Black Liberation Movement.
