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1936–2007
Archibald Boyce Monwabisi Mafeje(30 March 1936 – 28 March 2007), commonly known as Archie Mafeje, was a South African anthropologist and activist. Born in what is now the Eastern Cape, he received degrees from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of Cambridge.
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It is competition for this type of access which propels African Governments towards a one-party state.
Proto-nationalism which was primarily concerned with political domination by aliens, without relating it to its modal foundations since the end of the 19th Century.
In Africa, because of colonialism, an artificial gap has been created between our institutional education in philosophy and the traditional philosophies of our societies.
The whole thing is so superficial. The students talk about this university autonomy business. But do they think they can have a free university in a society that is not free".
Afrocentricity could be regarded as a methodological requirement for decolonizing knowledge in Africa, or as an antidote to Euro-centricity through which knowledge about Africa could be filtered.
meta-ationalism, which is a result of disillusionment with proto-nationalism and of an appreciation of the changing modalities of imperialist domination.
If Marxism is a universal scientific theory, how does it overcome its own syntactical as well as semantic limitations? How does it relate, methodologically, to vernacular languages, understood in the analytical, political sense?
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