Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa

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.