Neo Lekgotla Laga Ramoupi

University of the Free State | ufs · Department of History

Robben Island Rainbow Dreams offers the first intimate, behind-the-scenes account of the ongoing saga of the making of democratic South Africa's first national heritage institution. In doing so, it draws on the perspectives of historians, architects, visiting artists, ex-political prisoners, residents of the island and a host of heritage profession...

This excerpt is from a chapter in my forthcoming book, Cultural Resistance on Robben Island: Songs of Struggle and Liberation in South Africa. Izingoma Zo Mzabalazo Esiqithini (2023). The article is about Black Consciousness on Robben Island Maximum Security Prison--Alcatraz of the Apartheid State in South Africa; and is published online journal, h...

volume 28 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/agis.

The making – and then breaking – of South Africa’s Robben Island Museum https://theconversation.com/the-making-and-then-breaking-of-south-africas-robben-island-museum-168225

This book uses the author’s decade of undergraduate and graduate training in post-colony universities in South Africa to communicate the contested curriculum. In deconstructing educational training, it calls for an education system that has an African-centred curriculum for the simple reason that our country is on the African continent, is an Afric...

South Africa’s Arts and Culture minister, Nathi Mthetwa, has announced, on 24 February 2021, a number of name changes for towns, cities and airports in the Eastern Cape. For us to understand the decolonising significance of this announcement, the work of the distinguished Kenyan intellectual, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, is useful. In “Europhone or Africa...

You are a white professor, living in Africa; South Africa, to be exact. And you have never been taught by an African professor, lectured by an African and never had a teacher who is African. Is it normal pedagogy? Do you find it absurd or insane when your students, especially African students, asked you: "Why is My Curriculum So White!?"

This chapter focuses on the experiences of the political prisoners of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania on Robben Island maximum-security prison – the Alcatraz of the apartheid state – in southern Africa. It examines the cultural history of songs and the cultural resistance of this group in the southern African liberation struggle with a specia...

This chapter focuses on the experiences of the political prisoners of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania on Robben Island maximum security prison – the Alcatraz of the apartheid state – in southern Africa. It examines the cultural history of songs and the cultural resistance of this group in the southern African liberation struggle with a specia...

A point of departure for us in this chapter are the calls for us Africans to be conscious about ourselves; to liberate ourselves (Biko, 1978); to decolonise our minds (Ngugi, 1986); and to “emancipate ourselves from mental slavery” (Bob Marley’s Redemption Song). Within the broad thematic context of this book, such calls translate into the Africani...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was 24 years old when he enrolled for his Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa at the beginning of 1943. Mandela was the only African in the Law Faculty at Wits and suffered racism from both the white student body and faculty during the years he spent in pursu...

The past twenty years (1994 -2014) of our liberation have disappointed and failed African research and scholarship in South African higher education institutions. In this article I provide examples of how we have failed to transform the higher education sector. The first example is drawn from two fieldwork studies I conducted at the Universities of...

This paper focuses on the indigenous African languages policy in educa- tion debates in post-apartheid South Africa, and provides a policy review of language in education in the past 20 years of liberation in the South Africa. The research problem is that the post-1994 governments of South Africa stated in the Constitution of the Republic of South...