Institute of African Studies
University of Ghana
Accra, Ghana
#FeesMustFall
Tagged under Pan-Africanism Bolivia #Rhodesmustfall campaign, #FeesMustFall, Horace Campbell, Institute of African Studies University of Ghana, 2nd Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Intellectual and Cultural Festival, Colonialism, Imperialism, Pan-Africanism, Kwame Nkrumah, Agenda 2063, Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies
The #FeesMustFall movement raging though most of South African universities has revealed a few vital truths about the revolutionary moment. There are those who fight to retain the old order, on the one hand, and the often violent hordes at the gates agitating for change, on the other.
A strike is a ‘social phenomenon of enormous complexity which, in its totality, is never susceptible to complete description, let alone complete explanation’ (Gouldner 1954:65).
Tagged under Governance Marikana Massacre, COSATU, South Africa strikes, labour movement South Africa, NUMSA, AMCU, #FeesMustFall
The ‘Arab Spring’ and lessons for South Africa’s student movement
Tagged under Democracy & Governance Susan Booysen, Wits University Press, William Gumede, #RhodesMustFall, #FeesMustFall, Arap spiring, sunshine journalism, Tamazight, Democracy Works Foundation, South Africa’s student uprisings, Apartheid, North African uprisings, Moroccan commentator Rachid Elbelghiti, South Africa student movements