THERE has arisen an extensive discourse, and partly, literature, which speaks of the "end", the "decline", the "crisis", the "decay" or at worst the "death" and, if anything, the "dearth" of African civilisation all mired in the loss of humanity.
However, despite the high sounding alarms that have been heralded in these discourses, one looks in vain for an analysis of the basic factors and processes underlying the socio-cultural, economic and political chaos obtaining across the entire continent of Africa as having given impetus to the brutality, murder and abuse we have witnessed in these past weeks in South Africa.
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