At a time when it is becoming all too clear that Black suffering takes centre-stage – even in the midst of a worldwide pandemic – there ought to be something that inspires an awakening, a revival, in the otherwise collective unconscious. Something that helps one realise that something has gone terribly amiss in the Black community, and that something ought to be done. This is the function Vuselela seeks to serve. It bemoans the dearth of Black Consciousness and Pan-Africanism in our engagement with the World, and seeks an ideological revival.
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Passage from Can Themba's The Urchin
Macala suddenly felt in the mood for the jargon of the townships. The near‐animal, amorphous, quick‐shifting lingo that alarms farm‐boys and drives cops to all branches of suspicion. But it marks the city slicker who can cope with all its vagaries.✏
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One of my faourite philosophers
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