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About the Lecture
As a consequence of the negotiated settlement and the crisis of ANC rule, South Africa finds itself in a polycrisis of extreme poverty, inequality and a myriad of deep seated socio-economic problems causing increasing misery for the black working class. Some have even labelled South Africa as a “failed state”.
South Africa’s post liberation crisis situation is similar to other countries in the region and world. Professor Kelley will share an analysis and draw lessons from his vast knowledge and experience of several countries’ after liberation.
Please join us for the Annual Abdulhay Saloojee lecture and discussion on Post-liberation Politics and the Struggle for Democracy. The lecture will be delivered by Robin D.G. Kelley.
- DATE: Thursday 14 September 2023
- TIME: 18h00 for 18h30
- VENUE: UCT, Cape Town
Robin D.G. Kelley is a U.S.-based scholar of History and Black Studies whose work focuses on black internationalism, Left movements, political economy and culture. His published works include Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. He also co-edited Walter Rodney, The Russian Revolution: A View From the Third World. Robin has described himself as a Marxist surrealist feminist and is currently Professor of U.S. History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Prof Kelley on Cape Talk and Radio 786
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