Tasks of the African Progressive Movement

Abstract: I would like to insist that the task to achieve the fundamental social transformation of our Continent – its renaissance – belongs to the African people as a whole

Order and disorder : exploring the implications for Africa

Abstract: We need that reconstruction of that progressive voice. Without it we are not going to be able to take advantage of this new opening against unipolarity

Nigeria Presidential and National Assembly Elections:25 February 2023

In line with the provisions of the 2018 Revised Commonwealth Guidelines for the Conduct of Election Observation in Member Countries, the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, constituted an Observer Group for the 25 February 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections in Nigeria, following an invitation from the Chair of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).The Commonwealth Observer Group was led by His Excellency Thabo Mbeki, former President of the Republic of South Africa, and comprised 16 other eminent Commonwealth citizens. A staff team of 11 from the Commonwealth Secretariat provided technical support to the Group

Without the blanket of the land: agrarian change and biopolitics in post–Apartheid South Africa

This paper connects Marxist approaches to the agrarian political economy of South Africa with post-Marshallian and Foucauldian analyses of distributional regimes and late capitalist governmentality. Looking at South Africa’s stalled agrarian transition through the lens of biopolitics as well as class analysis can make visible otherwise disregarded connections between processes of agrarian change and broader contests about the terms of social and economic incorporation into the South African social and political order before, during and after Apartheid. This can bring a fresh sense of the broader political implications of the course of agrarian change in South Africa, and helps contextualise the enduring salience of land as a flashpoint within South Africa’s unresolved democratic transition

Africa must unite : an imperative of our time

Abstract: I believe that the fundamental question we must consider, critically, as we celebrate the OAU@50, is - what have we done over half-a-century to advance towards the achievement of the objective of African unity?

Globalisation, the African Renaissance and Sustainable Development: The challenge to African Intellectuals

As Africans, we are faced with the urgent challenge of ending poverty and underdevelopment on our Continent. This is a massive task that will take us some time to accomplish. The first objective we confront in this regard is that we must ourselves take on the responsibility to answer the question - what are the ways and means that we must adopt to ensure that we achieve these objectives! It is the poor themselves who must answer the question - what should be done so that their poverty comes to an end permanently. They must themselves be responsible for the answers to this question so that they recognise the obligation to themselves to take such actions as may result from the answers they will have provided themselves. (Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: 2002 1: 49-60

Oliver Tambo : a great giant who strode the globe like a colossus

Abstract: I am immensely privileged that I had the opportunity to interact with and learn many lifelong lessons from Oliver Tambo during the 31 years from 1962 until he passed away in 1993, which encompassed many of the years when OR led our movement during some of the most critical moments in its history

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1 ‘Special attention will need to be given to the compelling evidence that the country has a critical shortage of mathematics, science and language teachers, and to the demands of the new information and communication technologies.