Ntongela Masilela and the New African Movement

Keyan G. Tomaselli is Founder and Co- editor of Critical Arts, and Distinguished Professor, Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also Professor Emeritus and Fellow, University of KwaZulu- Natal, Durban, South Africa.Bongani Ngqulunga is the Senior Executive Director of University Relations, Student Affairs and UJ Sport at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also a member of the University’s Executive Management Committee.Busani Ngcaweni became the Director of the Centre for Public Policy and African Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, in August 2025. From March 2020, he was Director- General and Principal of the National School of Government (NSG) in South Africa. Ngcaweni was previously Head of Policy and Research in The Presidency and served as Chief of Staff to multiple South African deputy presidents and the current president.

• Preface Introduction: Ntongela Masilela and the New African Movement: A Critical Appreciation 1. The Legacy of Ntongela Masilela 2. Ntongela Masilela: A Tribute 3. Light the Candle, Shine the Path to Excavate Ntongela Masilela’s Legacy 4. The White South African Writer in our National Situation 5. “Memory, the Guardian of all Things”: Ntongela Masilela and the Project of Re-membering 6. Tribes Must Go: New African Intellectuals and the Contested Idea of Black Nationhood 7. Depictions of Black Defiance and Sovereign African Personhood in SEK Mqhayi’s U-Don Jadu 8. Ntongela Masilela’s Persistent Historico-Biographical Method: An Uneasy Balance Enabling the Re-reading of Memoir, Contemporary History and Popular Journalism 9. Presence africaine and the emergence of African film criticism 10. Thelma Gutsche: A great South African film scholar 11. Diasporic Identity, Intellectual Nomadism and its African Theorists 12. Come Back Africa and South African film history 13. Response to Ntongela Masilela and the New African Movement: A Critical Appreciation