Culture and the National Struggle
Culture and the National Struggle “The point is that, as (Vladimir Ilyich) Lenin pointed out, in every culture there are to be found progressive elements which can be harnessed to…
Culture and the National Struggle “The point is that, as (Vladimir Ilyich) Lenin pointed out, in every culture there are to be found progressive elements which can be harnessed to…
Return to the Source: Remembering Amilcar Cabral “A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of positive…
Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo: South Africa’s Cultural Ambassadors Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a South African male choral group singing in the local vocal styles of a capella music,…
Zenzile Miriam Makeba: Mama Afrika “Honestly, I’m just a little old singer, I am not a politician, I’m not an economist or anything of the sort. I just wish that…
The Power of Telling Our Own Stories We are the stories we are told, and we are the stories we tell ourselves and the world. Your culture is your story.…
Culture is an essential element of the history of a people Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people’s history and a determinant of history, by the positive or negative…
Developing Our Revolutionary Heritage The Programme of the South African Communist Party: “The Road To South African Freedom” says: “The state should encourage in particular the unity of the African…
TELLING OUR OWN STORIES, OUR HISTORY, OUR HERITAGE Storytelling, especially about our history, has always been at the heart of African culture and life. Through song, art, poetry, dance and…
Athol Fugard: The Writer Under Apartheid (Extracts from Kader Asmal’s Sechaba Article) “Without white South Africa realizing what it has done – and on the basis of that realization having…
“WE CHARGE OUR CULTURAL WORKERS WITH THE TASK OF USING THEIR CRAFT TO GIVE VOICE, NOT ONLY TO GRIEVANCES, BUT ALSO TO THE PROFOUNDEST ASPIRATIONS OF THE OPPRESSED AND EXPLOITED.”…