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The Underground Disciple

Hopefully the momentum will grow!

By Ziphozakhe Hlobo, 24 June 2014

“The mindset is that barbarians are backward and inferior and for their own benefit, we have to uplift them and civilize them and educate them and so on. The psychology behind it is kind of transparent, I mean, when you’ve got your boot on someone’s neck and you’re crashing them, you can’t say to yourself ‘I’m a son of a bitch and I’m doing it for my own benefit,’ so you have to figure out a way of saying ‘I’m doing it for their benefit.’ And, so that’s a very natural position to take when you’re beating someone with a club.” – American philosopher, Noam Chomsky, on how Europe colonized Afrika

About two months ago, I became part of a movement called RE Defining Afrikanism, which is a combination of different Cape Town movements, organizations and individuals seeking to…

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Afrikology and Pan Afrikanism

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Remembering Eric Miyeni’s Work – The Only Black …

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I have been re-reading the great work of Eric Miyeni, especially the O’Mandingo series of books, such as The Only Black at a Dinner Party, published by Jacana Media in 2006. The actor, ex-talk-show host and creative director at the Communications company Chillibush, is one of the talented 10th of what one could call the Black intelligencia of Southern Africa.

Although he can’t still be regarded as young, he was among the few real outspoken and cleverly opinionated writer/creative activists of this often perplexed and perplexing country.

Without having to dwell too much on the person, although I would like to celebrate and ventilate the works of many South Afrikans who have directly or indirectly contributed to our freedom of expression, let me turn to a particular article in this aforementioned book.

In the chapter, A Little Politics Perhaps? Why Not?, subtitled Frankly Indian South African, Miyeni touches upon a topic…

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To Zion or Not To Zion? A conversation about AmaZioni Music, Afrocentricity and Political Zionism

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2017 Reading Intentions

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What We Lose: A Novel by Zinzi Clemmons

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About Poetic People

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A profile of an organisation doing great work: MEPHO PUBLISHING GROUP

MJ Bhengu's Intellectual Space

An Abridged Company Profile

Mepho Publishers was founded in 2012 with the sole aim and philosophy to help up and coming authors to get their works, particularly family genealogies, published.

As a self-publishing company, MPG encourages new authors from the disadvantaged background to develop their researched works into family genealogy books, particularly stories that cannot be published by mainline big publishing houses.

Driven by this philosophy, to date MPG has published more than 10 books. A new avenue has developed which requires MPG to change Doctoral theses into personal books of value.

MPG is now getting able to convert books into eBooks, which is a fairly new version of book publishing in this country. This means we are now able to get our books into Amazon and Kindle for the convenience of our clients.

About Mr Bhengu

Mr Bhengu is a published author in his own right. He has, over…

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Ingoma and the death of ego

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Sisonke Xonti’s Iyonde and the death of the South African music press

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