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How to think in Dark Times

"DO nothing but think" is a philosophical proverb that is much mistakenly attributed to the Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek. Slavoj Zizek only stole and made famous the pithy statement. The generator and originator of the aphorism is a…

Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:48hrs | 3 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena

Decolonising Political Philosophy in Africa

It is the argument of the present piece that in the history of the world Africans have and still can produce, independent of Europe and America, political and economic ideas that can save the world. For this argument to be justiciable, som…

Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena

De-Westernisation towards Decolonisation

Most of what are called African problems today are problems that Europe and America have caused or at least promoted in the continent.Most African problems, including civil wars and genocides, have almost always been found to be linked to …

Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:40hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena

Decoloniality and critical encounters

I found my sorry self in the unenviable position of addressing the Pharisees of quality and standards in South African higher education.The police officers and magistrates of the academy. The Council of Higher Education (CHE) convened the …

Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:23hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena

Joshua Nkomo's ethics of liberation

Since his sad passing away on 1 July 1999 Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's name and life have continued to arrest public attention and imagination at a world scale.As I write the Zimbabwean historian and leading decoloniality theorist Sabelo Ndlovu-…

Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:18hrs | 4 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena

Treachery of African philosophy

One of the unseemly decorations of Western science and philosophy has been, in this century and its many forerunners, its vaunting and chest-beating arrogance.Without a single dot of shame, Friedrich Nietzsche could claim to "philosophise …

Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:27hrs | 3 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena

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Columnist / Cetshwayo mabhena

How to think in Dark Times

Decolonising Political Philosophy in Africa

De-Westernisation towards Decolonisation

Decoloniality and critical encounters

Joshua Nkomo's ethics of liberation

Treachery of African philosophy

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