Black Consciousness and the Reconstitution of the World
Belonging and Constitution in South Africa
Black Consciousness and the Reconstitution of the World
Belonging and Constitution in South Africa
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Drawing on Africana political thought, black existentialism, and settler colonial and indigenous studies, Madlingozi advances a decolonial approach to debates over the strivings of historically colonised and enslaved people for 'home.'
With a focus on South Africa, Madlingozi explores strivings by impoverished black communities to constitute an inclusive polity in which citizens 'stand together' and belong affectively and materially. If settler colonial constitution-making shattered the socio-cultural worlds of indigenous peoples, producing 'native' pariahdom, homelessness and worldlessness, the original impulse of anti-colonial struggles was Mayibuye iAfrika or to Return/Re-member/Resurrect Africa. This demands re-constituting 'South Africa' on the spiritual, social and material planes and constitution-makers undergoing processes of disalienation, rebirth, and of returning from liminal worlds. Only then might they contribute to 'African renaissance,' creolising national consciousness, and nation-becoming towards pluriversality.
Madlingozi offers positive models in Es'kia Mphahlele's Afrikan Humanness, Steve Biko's Black Consciousness and Abahlalism, which, unlike the borrowings of early twentieth-century African leaders from New World W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, drew from but ultimately transcended ideas of the Négritude and Pan-African movements.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Original Sin in the Constitution of South Africa
Chapter 2: The Constitution Legacy of Pan-Africanism: Potentiated Double Consciousness or Racial Melancholia?
Chapter 3: Afrikan Humanness and the Reconstitution of the Spiritual World
Chapter 4: Black Consciousness and the Reconstitution of the Social World
Chapter 5: Abahlalism and the Reconstitution of the Material World
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| Published | 29 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 1 |
| ISBN | 9781538143605 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Global Critical Caribbean Thought |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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