Guest Commentator

Andile Mngxitama

Andile Mngxitama is a land activist and a Pan Africanist from South Africa. He is co-editor of a forthcoming volume entitled, Biko Lives - Conversations and Contestations. Click here to contact Mr. Mngxitama.

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Guest Commentary

The South African Presidential Debate: A Market Taliban Versus A Populist Taliban

By Andile Mngxitama Guest Commentator

Developments around the presidential succession debate in South Africa have brought to the fore, at least on the analytical plain, two main contending forces. These forces are symbolically represented in the persons of President Thabo Mbeki on the one hand and his former Deputy Jacob Zuma on the other. For lack of a useful coinage,…

Developments around the presidential succession debate in South Africa have brought to the fore, at least on the analytical plain, two main contending forces. These forces…

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Guest Commentary

Mamdani the Darfur Genocide Denialist?

By Andile Mngxitama Guest Commentator

Has Mahmood Mamdani the pre-eminent African scholar become an Arab supremacist apologist? A careful reading of his much circulated, “The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, and Insurgency”, provides more than enough evidence to suggest that this great progressive thinker has succumbed to the charms of tribe and perhaps religion. Mamdani employs strange logic, dubious…

Has Mahmood Mamdani the pre-eminent African scholar become an Arab supremacist apologist? A careful reading of his much circulated, “The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War,…

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