Thisbook maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. Tafira explores a range of topicsincluding youth political movement, the social construction of blackness inAzania, and conceptualizations from the Black Liberation Movement.
KennethTafira is Postdoctoral Fellow at Archie Mafeje Research Institute, Universityof South Africa. He holds a doctoral degree in Anthropology from the Universityof the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Introduction.- .1. The Black Nationalist Movement in Azania.- .2. BC and its Fortunes After 1976.- .3. BC in the Postapartheid Era.- .4. Some Considerations in a Youth Political Movement.- .5. Youth Politics, Agency and Subjectivity.- .6. The Social Construction of Blackness in Azania.- .7. The Black Middle Class and Black Struggles.- .8. Culture and History in the Black Struggles for Liberation.- .9. Collaboration, Complicity and “Selling – Out” In South Africa Historiography.- .10. Transference and Re (de) placement and The edge Towards a Postcolonial Conundrum.- .11. The Idea of the Nation in South Africa, 1940 to post 1994: Conceptualisations from the Black Liberation Movement.- .12. Symbols, Symbolism and the New Social Order.- Concluding Remarks.
