Who Is an African?

Roderick R. Hewitt is academic leader for research and higher degrees in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Chammah J. Kaunda is Africa Research Fellow, Senior Research Specialist in Human Development Science of the Human Sciences Research Council (HDS-HSRC), and honorary lecturer in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Foreword: Marshall W. Murphree
Foreword: Nobuhle Hlongwa
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: Who is an African?
Roderick R. Hewitt
Chammah J. Kaunda

PART I: RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND CULTURAL IDENTITY


The Changing Salience of Race: Discrimination and Diversity in South Africa
Jeremy Seekings, University of Cape Town

Cracking the Skull of Racism in South Africa Post-1994
Vuyani S. Vellem, University of Pretoria

Black Solidarity Impaled: The Cause of Afrophobia
Bernard Matolino, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Race, Place and Indian Identities in Contemporary South Africa
Goolam Vahed, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Ashwin Desai, University of Johannesburg

Liberating Identifications: Being Black Conscious, Being Non-Racial, Being African
Nico Botha, University of South Africa

Umuntu Akalahlwa: An Exploration of an African Ethics
Sibusiso Masondo, University of KwaZulu-Natal

PART II: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND SOCIAL COHESION


“I am Born of a People Who Would Not Tolerate Oppression”: The Role of Indian Women’s Movements in Social Transformation
Rowanne S. Marie, Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary

Identity Construction of African Women in the Midst of Land Dispossession
Maserole Kgari-Masondo, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Re-enacting “Destiny”: Masculinity and Afrikaner Identity in “Religious” Post-Apartheid South Africa
Kennedy Owino, Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary/University of KwaZulu-Natal

“Some LGBTIQs Are More Unequal than Others”: Determinants of LGBTIQ Marginality in South Africa
Scott Everett Couper, University of KwaZulu-Natal/Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary

Rituals of Female Solidarity: The Role of Imbusa in Promoting Social Cohesion among Married Women in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Mutale M. Kaunda, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Chammah J. Kaunda, University of South Africa

PART III: RELIGION, PROTEST, AND AFRICANNESS


“Sing unto the LORD a New Song” (Psalm 98:1): Aspects of the Afrikaans Punk-Rock Group Fokofpolisiekar’s Musical Spirituality as Rearticulated Aspects of the 1978 Afrikaans Psalm– en Gesangeboek
Christo Lombaard, University of South Africa

Rastafari Perspectives on African Identities: Lucky Dube’s “Different Colours / One People” in Conversation with Peter Tosh’s “I Am an African”
Roderick R. Hewitt, University of KwaZulu-Natal

On Locating Islam and African Muslim Identity within Black/Africana Existential Thought: A Preview
Tahir Fuzile Sitoto, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Urban Immigrant Pentecostal Missiology: The Case of an Immigrant Zambian Pentecostal Pastor in South Africa
Chammah J. Kaunda, University of South Africa

Why Read the West? Messianicity and Canonicity within a Postcolonial, South African Context
Justin Sands, North-West University Potchefstroom