Mbeki's 'I am an African' Speech: Mobilising Psycho-Political Resources for Political Reconstitution of Post-Apartheid South Africa.
We offer a critical reading of Thabo Mbeki's 'I am an African' speech to illustrate how he foregrounded humaning, namely onto-epistemological recovery, as a key dimension of psycho-political reconstruction. Mbeki's speech, delivered on the occasion of the adoption of South Africa's democratic Consti...
| Publicado en: | African Studies Vol. 80; no. 3/4; pp. 451 - 466 |
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