THE LONG SHADOW OF THE LABYRINTH: WHY THE MADLANGA COMMISSION IS THE FORENSIC AUDIT OF OUR UNFINISHED TRANSITION
It is necessary to clarify from the outset: this opinion piece is not written by a political scientist but by a decolonial, Africana scholar. My interest lies not in the mere mechanics of “governance” or the liberal tropes of “good administration,” but in the more profound, more haunting questions of power, continuity, and the persistent […]
REMEMBERING BIKO: RECLAIMING ONTOLOGICAL BLACKNESS AND THE POLITICS OF THE BLACK BODY
The commemoration of Steve Biko demands more than a mere historicist recount; it necessitates an epistemic and ontological excavation into the very foundation of Black subjectivity under Colonialism and Apartheid. Biko’s praxis and philosophy must be apprehended as a radical ontopolitical intervention aimed at reclaiming Black bodies and articulating an ontological Blackness that resists coloniality, […]