Walter Rodney, The Dar es Salaam School and the Current Situation

by Dani Wadada Nabudere, 2006

Walter Rodney made a significant contribution to the African academy, the Pan-African revolution, and human emancipation. This was fully demonstrated in his activist commitment to the cause of the liberation of the people of Africa and those of African descent in the Diaspora and it is this achievement that has brought us here together to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his cowardly assassination in 1980. It is also this commitment that gives us an opportunity to revisit these important historical events on our continent, the African Diaspora and the world at large.

A review of Jacques Depelchin's, 'Silences in African History: between the syndromes of discovery and abolition'

by Professor Martin Legassick
History Department
University of the Western Cape

The last time I saw Jacques Depelchin I drove him (together with Ibrahim Abdullah) around the townships of Cape Town. We drove along a road bordered by shacks in Khayelitsha and Jacques commented "this is worse than anywhere I have seen in Africa." Some of those shacks were the so-called QQ section of Khayelitsha which, along with a number of areas in the Cape Town metropolis this last winter, rose in revolt at the lack of delivery of services and housing, putting up barricades of burning tyres to close the road that Jacques and I had driven on, and throwing their garbage across the road.

Our Dar Moment

Race and Education Roundtable, Rhodes University, July 2011

Nigel C. Gibson (Click here to read the version of this talk published in the Mail & Guardian)

1. What will be our Dar moment?¹

 In a recent commencement speech Saleem Badat, the vice chancellor of Rhodes University, called on graduates to put their knowledge and expertise to work “for the benefit of society at large” through “ethical conduct, impeccable integrity, visionary endeavour, selfless public service and commitment to people and responsibilities.”