The NWU Social Transformation & School of Philosophy and Global Futures cordially invite you to attend the keynote talk by South African High Commissioner, Prof T Madlingozi.
Tsekisho Solomon Plaatje @150: Countering Pariahdom and reclaiming Worldliness.
Abstract:
"This year marks the 150th anniversary of Tshekisho Solomon Plaatje’s birth. Plaatje was not only the first General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress (later the ANC), but also a court interpreter, newspaper editor, political orator, teacher, pamphleteer, translator, and novelist. More specifically for this talk, I will demonstrate that Plaatje was an intercessor and an itinerant between the worlds of indigenous peoples and colonists, and a traveller between the settler colony and the metropole. In this way, Plaatje sought to achieve three main political objectives. First, he aimed to counter the condition of pariahdom he articulated in the opening paragraph of the first chapter of Native Life in South Africa. Pariahdom is a constitutive and foundational settler-colonial condition that confines indigenous people, historically enslaved people, and other oppressed people to lived experiences of unhomeliness, homelessness, rootlessness, namelessness, and ultimately worldlessness." Click here to read more