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Roderick R. Hewitt is academic leader for research and higher degrees in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Chammah J. Kaunda is Africa Research Fellow, Senior Research Specialist in Human Development Science of the Human Sciences Research Council (HDS-HSRC), and honorary lecturer in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Foreword: Marshall W. Murphree
Foreword: Nobuhle Hlongwa
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: Who is an African?
Roderick R. Hewitt
Chammah J. Kaunda
PART I: RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
The Changing Salience of Race: Discrimination and Diversity in South Africa
Jeremy Seekings, University of Cape Town
Cracking the Skull of Racism in South Africa Post-1994
Vuyani S. Vellem, University of Pretoria
Black Solidarity Impaled: The Cause of Afrophobia
Bernard Matolino, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Race, Place and Indian Identities in Contemporary South Africa
Goolam Vahed, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Ashwin Desai, University of Johannesburg
Liberating Identifications: Being Black Conscious, Being Non-Racial, Being African
Nico Botha, University of South Africa
Umuntu Akalahlwa: An Exploration of an African Ethics
Sibusiso Masondo, University of KwaZulu-Natal
PART II: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND SOCIAL COHESION
“I am Born of a People Who Would Not Tolerate Oppression”: The Role of Indian Women’s Movements in Social Transformation
Rowanne S. Marie, Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary
Identity Construction of African Women in the Midst of Land Dispossession
Maserole Kgari-Masondo, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Re-enacting “Destiny”: Masculinity and Afrikaner Identity in “Religious” Post-Apartheid South Africa
Kennedy Owino, Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary/University of KwaZulu-Natal
“Some LGBTIQs Are More Unequal than Others”: Determinants of LGBTIQ Marginality in South Africa
Scott Everett Couper, University of KwaZulu-Natal/Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary
Rituals of Female Solidarity: The Role of Imbusa in Promoting Social Cohesion among Married Women in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Mutale M. Kaunda, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Chammah J. Kaunda, University of South Africa
PART III: RELIGION, PROTEST, AND AFRICANNESS
“Sing unto the LORD a New Song” (Psalm 98:1): Aspects of the Afrikaans Punk-Rock Group Fokofpolisiekar’s Musical Spirituality as Rearticulated Aspects of the 1978 Afrikaans Psalm– en Gesangeboek
Christo Lombaard, University of South Africa
Rastafari Perspectives on African Identities: Lucky Dube’s “Different Colours / One People” in Conversation with Peter Tosh’s “I Am an African”
Roderick R. Hewitt, University of KwaZulu-Natal
On Locating Islam and African Muslim Identity within Black/Africana Existential Thought: A Preview
Tahir Fuzile Sitoto, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Urban Immigrant Pentecostal Missiology: The Case of an Immigrant Zambian Pentecostal Pastor in South Africa
Chammah J. Kaunda, University of South Africa
Why Read the West? Messianicity and Canonicity within a Postcolonial, South African Context
Justin Sands, North-West University Potchefstroom
This important book serves as a pedagogical tool for students of religion, African studies, race relations and gender studies and is ground-breaking, not only in terms of the quality of the essays but also in the scope of the issues that it addresses. . . . It opens up new horizons in respect of what it means to be an African and is undoubtedly a "must-have" for every scholar of African thought, identity and philosophy as well as those engaged in interdisciplinary research on and in Africa.
— Journal of Theology for Southern Africa
The issue of race has been a driver of such seismic political events as Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as US President. South Africa provides a microcosm where the question of race can be interrogated in a uniquely concentrated way. We therefore all stand to benefit from the penetrating analysis offered by Hewitt and Kaunda in this ground-breaking volume.
— Kenneth R. Ross
South Africa is a daunting place where the consequences of colonialism/coloniality pulse intensely. To listen to these authors, learn from them and think with them is a must! The result? A necessary decolonization of our minds and a desire for justice! With this book I was reminded of Albert Memmi: “revolt is the only way out of the colonial situation."
— Cláudio Carvalhaes, Associate Professor of Worship, Union Theological Seminary - New York City
This project makes an immense contribution to our resolute quest to be African universities in a context of accelerated transformation to comprehensive justice and responsible freedom for all on our continent and globally.
— Nico Koopman, Stellenbosch University
This book candidly unpacks and interrogates important contemporary issues such as race, xenophobia, gender, sexuality, social cohesion, poverty, inequality, human rights and more in post-apartheid South Africa. These issues are also enunciated in key South Africa’s institutional legal and policy frameworks such as the Bill of Rights, Human Rights Commission, Gender Commission, White Paper 3 on Transformation of Higher Education and National Development Plan 2030. Though the book is contextualised in the pre and post 1994 dispensation in South Africa it is relevant to many countries that have gone through colonial oppression especially in the global south. The strength of the book lies in its empirical foundation, contribution from a diverse range of scholars with leadership expertise in different academic, research and administrative fields such as religion, theology, sociology, political science, gender and sexuality, historical humanities, and philosophy making it a truly cross disciplinary scholarly work. The book also addresses indirectly the elusive concept of African scholarship, curriculum decolonisation and transformation in South African Universities. The book in this regard contributes immensely towards current trends and debates in South Africa’s higher education and the healing of a previously and racially polarised society. The book will potentially find appeal in a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Therefore, I add my voice to endorsing the book Who Is an African and invite scholars, professional practitioners and students from within and outside South Africa and across disciplines to engage with the issues and debates presented herein.
— Stephen M. Mutula, University of KwaZulu-Natal