Black South African Intellectuals and the Question of Colonial Modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23629461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Khwezi Mkhize (0000-0001-5047-0535, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 149-165 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | African Literature in Transition : Volume 3 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781009622318.010 |
| OpenAlex | W4415448653 |
| ISBN | 9781009622318 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Newspapers were essential to African engagements with the problem of colonial modernity in South Africa. This chapter focuses on Tiyo Soga’s writings in Indaba and how they inflected the discourse of the nation with an assemblage of African experiences. Nontsizi Mgqwetho’s praise poems in Umteleli are also considered for the way they combined publicness with an emphasis on the ethical bonds tying the (female) poet to the utterance of truth. The chapter highlights the connections between print, gender and the preservation of the conscience and memory of the people.
Colonial period · Colonialism · Islam · Modernity · African cultural and philosophical studies · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
|---|