South Africa: The Maftown Book Club and the Day My Prejudices Were Unexpectedly Waylaid

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Three texts helped to form the intellectual backbone of the #FeesMustFall movement. These are the writings of Steve Bantu Biko (I write what I like), Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth) and works by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Mahmood Mamdani, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, among others, on decoloniality.

It was practically a year ago when I bumped into two of my long-lost comrades in Durban attending a Pan African Literary conference in 2019. They immediately seized the opportunity to corner me and invite me to speak at their book club in Mafikeng, hence the name, Maftown Book Club.

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