The
Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University (UHURU) will host one of South
Africa’s most potent contributors to the analysis of modern politics, Prof
Achille Mbembe. He will be delivering a public lecture on Wednesday (6 August
2014) entitled: "Non-racialism and the New Native Question in South
Africa"
“Prof
Mbembe is one of the few intellectuals in South Africa who is deeply familiar
with modern social theory and philosophy, particularly with what is termed
‘continental philosophy’. He was
educated in France and publishes regularly in that country,” said the Director
of UHURU, Prof Michael Neocosmos.
“Moreover
he is precisely concerned with Africa, not as the place of ‘the other’, but as
our own place with all its problems and all its extraordinary history and
people. Who better to begin the new term
under the auspices of UHURU?,” he added.
