I have a love-hate relationship with Heritage Day. Beyond the warm and fuzzy feelings of seeing people in different and beautiful outfits representing their heritage…
Posts tagged as “Frantz Fanon”
Videos depicting the senseless murders of unarmed people of colour have given birth to a new social movement, #BlackLivesMatter, while bringing to light a reality…
While there is an exciting movement, especially within neuropsychological disciplines, to highlight the contemporary value of Sigmund Freud’s notion of the unconscious mind, it is…
By Liezille Jacobs and Julian Jacobs Frantz Fanon, often referred to as the psychiatrist who prescribed violence, would turn in his grave at the condemnation…
The Sunday Tribune carried four articles on April 12, 2015 analysing the Rhodes Must Fall debate in the context of transformation in general. Thank goodness…
It is undeniable that Frantz Fanon identifies European, or “white” culture as racist to the core. It is equally undeniable that he affirmed the likelihood…
It was at a girl’s varsity residence room the morning after we had sex that I read, for the first time, Steve Biko’s I write…
The mysterious Mr X has been testifying against the striking miners at the Farlam Commission for the past two months in which he claimed the…
A friend recently posted rare footage of Steve Biko in an interview on German TV on his blog. The week of the 35th anniversary of…