Dear Mr Sobukwe

Examining Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe's pan-African vision and how it has influenced youth movements in South Africa today

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ID2187062
AuthorsKarabo-Maya Rodwell (0000-0002-7670-2805, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume47
Issue3
Pages288-299
Publication date2024-11-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology Southern Africa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2332-3264 • E-ISSN: 2332-3256
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23323256.2024.2321449
OpenAlexW4403638972
LanguageEN
References cited9

Pan-Africanism is experiencing a resurgence amongst young people in post-1994 South Africa.In this article, I explore how people across different generations interpret the legacy of a critical figure in South African history, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.The participants in this research and I represent a sliver in the changing interpretations of Sobukwe's legacy in South Africa after 1994.I have chosen an epistolary form as the key organising framework to share my ethnographic research, mirroring Sobukwe's own prolific letter writing practice throughout his life.The article presents letters written by two participants in my research to Sobukwe, followed by a response letter from me.This forms a dialogical conversation between me, the researcher, the participants in my research and Robert Sobukwe.The research essay contains elements of auto-ethnography, allowing me to engage closely with how Sobukwe has impacted my own thinking about justice in South Africa.I focus on education, a key tenet in Sobukwe's pan-Africanist vision.The article shows the ongoing erasure of Black liberation fighters from contemporary South Africa and the impact of coloniality in education

Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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