8 Umoja Center as a Continuation of the Pan- Africanist Tradition in the Present Context

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Foreword iv
4. Preface vi
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Professor Ntongela Desmond Joseph Masilela – A Profile xiv
7. Photo Gallery xvii
8. 1 Writing in the Latter Years of the ‘Interregnum’ Period and the ‘New South Africa’ Era: An Introduction 1
9. 2 Issues in the Historiography of South African Literature 19
10. 3 Historical Problematics in Black South African Literature 30
11. 4 Black South African Literature from the Sophiatown Renaissance to the Black Mamba Rising Movement: Transformations and Variations from the 1950s to the 1980s 37
12. 5 Language as a Cultural Issue in Africa Today 52
13. 6 A Moment of Reflection on the Occasion of the 11th Commemoration of the June 1976 Uprising 59
14. 7 The Political Forms and Cultural Processes of a Particular South African Exile 64
15. 8 Umoja Center as a Continuation of the Pan- Africanist Tradition in the Present Context 78
16. 9 What was the New African Movement? A Conversation with Sandile Ngidi 84
17. 10 What was the H. I. E. Dhlomo Center for African Intellectual History? Mbukeni H. Mngubi Interviews Ntongela Masilela 139
18. 11 The Return of Mazisi Kunene to South Africa: The End of an Intellectual Chapter in our Literary History 143
19. 12 Africa in America and America in Africa: The Politics of Cultural Reciprocity 152
20. 13 The Transatlantic Connections of the New African Movement 164
21. 14 A Cavalcade of Artistic Forms in Contemporary South Africa 263
22. 15 A Fated Intellectual Snapshot of a Disappeared Literary Generation 276
23. 16 The Historical Significance of China for South Africa in the Second Decade of the 21st Century 294
24. 17 Foreshadowings in the Making of an ‘African Renaissance’ 305
25. About the Editor 315
26. Index 316