Revisiting Ujamaa and the Debate on African Socialism

The limits of intercultural translation and modern scientific thought in building ecologies of knowledge for epistemological reconstruction Submitted in response to the essay question:  Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ book, Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide, is built on three founding principles. (i) What are these principles/ ideas, (ii) related to these principles, what are … Continue reading Revisiting Ujamaa and the Debate on African Socialism

African Philosophy and the Black Radical Tradition

A case study of the Azanian Liberation Tradition as a theory of liberation and practice of resistance Long essay submitted in partial fulfilment of requirements for Module 1 SOC5059F: Theorising Justice from the South Sociology Department, University of Cape Town Abstract African philosophy has necessarily come to be defined in relation to the consciousness of … Continue reading African Philosophy and the Black Radical Tradition