Remembering Chris Hani, 30 years since his murder
02 April 2023 - 00:00
In his new book, Out Of The Dark Night: Essays On Decolonization, the redoubtable political theorist Achille Mbembe quotes a disturbing vignette from the exalted German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: “The peculiarly African character is difficult to comprehend, for the very reason that in reference to it we must give up the principle which naturally accompanies all our ideas — the category of Universality...
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