Memoirs of a born-free : reflections on the rainbow nation

Abstract

The UJ Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Internationalisation, Advancement, & Student Affairs in partnership with the UJ Library invite you to meet Malaika wa Azania, the author of the book Memoirs of a born-free: reflections on the rainbow nation. About the book: The struggle of the generations before that of the Born Frees was a struggle for political freedom and democracy, and was the foundation for revolution and reform but not the ultimate goal. Malaika contests the notion of the born-free generation when it is a generation that was born in the midst of a struggle for economic freedom and the quest for the realisation of the objectives of the African Renaissance. Now 22 years into a democratic dispensation, Malaika describes her life as having been a struggle to understand the “rainbow nation” and to salvage from it something that renders her free. About the author Malaika Wa Azania, a fierce debater and an activist devoted to pursuing the African Renaissance agenda is the founder of a pan Africanist journal, African Voices of the Left and a columnist for The Thinker magazine. In 2012, Malaika was the branch secretary of the South African Students Congress (SASCO) at Rhodes University in Grahamstown and is currently the Secretary General of the African Youth Coalition, an umbrella organisation of all the youth society organisations throughout the African continent. She is also the director of her own writing company, Pen and Azanian Revolution (Pty) Ltd. Panellists Mr. Kgalema Motlanthe, former Deputy President of South Africa Facilitator: Prof. Tinyiko Maluleke, Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Johannesbur