IMPORTANT MOMENTS IN BLACK RESISTANCE HISTORY IN FEBRUARY
This month’s black resistence history series is particularly special as it coincides with what the black world refers to as ‘Black History Month’. February this year marks 97 years since the inception of Black History Month. Black History Month was the initiative of the black thinker, teacher, historian and scholar, Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson author […]
BIKO: A LIGHT IN A TIME OF DARKNESS
Nothing describes and summarises Steve Biko’s brief but sufficient life on earth as does the title of the legendary Alice Walker’s 2007 book, We are the Ones We have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness. While he died at the tender age of 30, he would have turned 79 this coming December. […]
MEC MAILE’S ADDRESS AT THE WINNIE MANDELA PUBLIC LECTURE
“It is an honour to stand before you this evening, on this auspicious occasion of the launch of the Qhakaza: Pain Undefined exhibition curated by one of the most iconic fashion artists of our time, Gift Kgosierileng. This evening, we gather here in memory and celebration of a great revolutionary, Mama Winnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela, whose life and legacy […]