There has been a lot of confusion regarding the application of Pan-Afrikanism, Black Consciousness as well as the principles of Ubuntu in the public domain in Southern Afrika lately. I would like to take us to the very foundations of these terms, philosophical ideas, and ideals and their uses and abuses in the post-apartheid era […]
Black to Basics: Black Consciousness, Power and Pan Afrikan-isms
Statement on Transition of Mocholoko Zulumathabo
MEDIA STATEMENT ON THE PASSING OF THE GREAT MOCHOLOKO DR, ZULUMATHABO VUSUMUZI LEFALAMANG ZULU (1961-2024) It is with a deep sense of loss that we announce the passing of the great Mocholoko, Dr. Zulumathabo Vusumuzi Lefalamang Zulu (62). Mocholoko was born on 17 August 1961 in Johannesburg, Azania (South Africa). From an early age, he […]
Statement on Transition of Mocholoko Zulumathabo
We’re Starting a Book Club in Centurion, GP
Sanibonani Zakhamuzi Zase Mzansi Afrika. Lesi Yisimemo Sokuhlanganela Ukufunda Izincwadi Ezilotshwe Ngaba Nsundu Kuphela. Nakhu Okungokwethu! This is a very special invitation to our very first Story Weavers Club to be held at Thatchfield’s Black Woman owned Bootlegger Coffee Company. Our first selection for this revolutionary bookclub initiative is none other than Nthikeng Mohlele …We […]
We’re Starting a Book Club in Centurion, GP
Commemorating June 16 Together
On the 16 of June 1976, intrepid yet frustrated South Afrikan youth defied apartheid laws and decided to stand up for their rights to Self Determination. The 16 June Uprising was against oppressive language laws as well as the entire racist system that forced Afrikan people into subservient positions. The youth said, they’ve had enough. […]
Commemorating June 16 Together
iTape YeZizwe 2
All of it has been haunting
It hurt to make
It hurt to sleep
To be able to drown in shallow forgetting
Some are more capable than others
Look at me breaking and remaining unbroken
I am an expletive
Aren’t I
Straight from the tongue of the almighty
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Afrikology, Kingdoms and Youth
“The absolute equality of races, physical, political and social, is the founding stone of world peace and human advancement. No one denies great differences of gift, capacity, and attainment among individuals of all races, but the voice of science, religion and practical politics is one in denying the God-appointed existence of super-races or races naturally and inevitably and eternally inferior.” – W.E.B. Du Bois, during the Second Pan-African Congress in London, 1921
Songs In The Chi of Love
Stories Set To Music: 1/11/2018
The original version of this story appeared around 2018-2019 and began with this quote from a Blood Orange song, “I can be the only one / but do you even want me to …”; the point was to highlight the highs and lows of romantic love as well as the perils of infatuation with material objects or possessions. It was really first written as meditation or a note emerging from the inspiration of music. As I am re-writing this from the original handwritten copy, it may not appear exactly the same as the earlier versions.
Even when people can no longer afford anything, somehow they can still afford to Love. There is no denying that like all aspects of living or existence, Love can be excruciating and if unhindered, can also bear the most terrorizing effects. People who for some reason feel unloved…
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A New World Emerges Glistening
“None of us can control every situation we find ourselves in. What we can control is how we react when things turn against us. I have always seen failure as a challenge to pull myself up and keep going. A struggle is only one step in the long path we walk and dwellinjg on it only postpones the completion of our journey. Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times.” – Wangari Maathai, Unbowed, One Woman’s Story
“Real and sustainable economic empowerment aims at evening out the spread of wealth across the demographic spectrum and not to perpetuate its skewing. The implicit mandate of any government anywhere is to economically empower the citizenry.” – David Magang, Delusions of Grandeur, Paradoxes and Ambivalences in Botswana’s Macroeconomic Firmament
We need new creation stories. We need stories without queens, kings, serfs and imaginary monsters or…
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Sekhmet session 2
The Underground Disciple 