Pope Zille speaks her truth: Go woke stay broke
22 May 2021
Political is personal: Helen Zille’s latest book details her lived experiences, which our reviewer would rather read in an autobiography. (Skyler Reid)
REVIEW: #StayWoke Go Broke by Helen Zille (Obsidian Worlds)
A few years ago, I wrote in this paper that, on the basis of her autobiography, Helen Zille seemed to be that rarity an honest politician. Having read her new book, #StayWoke Go Broke, I wonder if that was a correct assessment.
I don’t think she’s dishonest about her views, however mistaken, but her way of unpacking the issue of “woke” politics amounts, I think, to a kind of intellectual dishonesty or, at the very least, it’s so selective and prone to over-generalisation and polemical simplification that it can only be seen as deliberately skewed argument.
ST VINCENT AND THE Grenadines (SVG) has lost one of its most talented sons, a true patriot, and an individual who made a herculean contribution to the development of this country. Such is the conclusion of the President of the Caribbean Court of Justice(CCJ), Justice Adrian Saunders, who was speaking on the life of fellow son of the soil, the late Queen’s Counsel, former Attorney General and public figure, Parnel …
Steve Biko Centre to participate in MuseumFutures Africa project
Covid-19
The Steve Biko Centre in Qonce, Eastern Cape is one of six African museums selected to participate in the MuseumFutures Africa project.
MuseumFutures Africa is a Pan-African project established to support the conceptual development of museums throughout the African continent. Spearheaded by the Goethe-Institut and a team of practitioners from the art and museum fields, the project was conceived in the culmination of a series of ‘Museum Conversations’ in 2019, as a means of mobilising museum-driven processes of innovation, transformation and adaptation.
The staff at the Steve Biko Centre are honoured to be participating in the MuseumFutures Africa project. As we are a relatively new museum, the process of engaging with more experienced institutions will help us improve both our museum and our ways of thinking in the heritage sector. Connecting with other museums on the continent provides amazing opportun
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ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t need your Kemetic principles, your 42 Laws of Ma’at, your Hebrew Israelite doctrine, your Christianity, your Islam, your Black Supremacist ideologies, your Pan-Afrikan studies, or your Pro-Black teachings to be a conscious person. I was already conscious before I joined your
Pro-Black platforms on YouTube and Facebook. I was already conscious before I was introduced to some of you black supremacists in my social networks. My consciousness does not involve
having only knowledge of ancient black civilizations, and their religious and spiritual systems. My consciousness expand beyond religion and spirituality. Because I reject your Pan-Afrikan and Pro-Black ideologies does not make me anti-Black. I don’t need you to tell me I’m Black. I don’t need you to tell me I’m a Moor. I don’t need you to tell me I’m Kemetic. I’m don’t need you to tell me I’m Hebrew. I don’t need you to tell me I’m Christian. I don’t need you to tell m
May 5, 2021
Following his constellation of vitriolic falsifications of the historical records about the violent occurrence on April 14, 1979, in Liberia, the accidental senator for Montserrsado county Darius Dillion has refused to retract his disgraceful statement and apologize for polluting the historical pages with frightening inaccuracies. His intransigence is intentional and well thought of as it is aimed at achieving his grotesque, partisan wet dream of discrediting the progressive forces and desecrating their struggle. Furthermore, his refusal to offer mea culpa, bordering on Napoleon complex and Olympian arrogance, has elicited a slew of brilliantly sharp polemics from the camp of the progressive forces, particularly from the ranks of radical students and stalwart veterans, predominantly a new generation of progressive elements unfazed by the vicious revisionism of class enemies of the Dillion type. People like Darius Dillon are known to us becau