Who Is an African? (eBook)

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. MurphreeForeword: Nobuhle HlongwaAcknowledgements ContributorsIntroduction: Who is an African?Roderick R. Hewitt Chammah J. KaundaPART I: RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND CULTURAL IDENTITYThe Changing Salience of Race: Discrimination and Diversity in South AfricaJeremy Seekings, University of Cape Town Cracking the Skull of Racism in South Africa Post-1994Vuyani S. Vellem, University of PretoriaBlack Solidarity Impaled: The Cause of AfrophobiaBernard Matolino, University of KwaZulu-Natal Race, Place and Indian Identities in Contemporary South Africa Goolam Vahed, University of KwaZulu-NatalAshwin Desai, University of Johannesburg Liberating Identifications: Being Black Conscious, Being Non-Racial, Being AfricanNico Botha, University of South AfricaUmuntu Akalahlwa: An Exploration of an African EthicsSibusiso Masondo, University of KwaZulu-NatalPART 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 TransformationRowanne S. Marie, Seth Mokitimi Methodist SeminaryIdentity Construction of African Women in the Midst of Land DispossessionMaserole Kgari-Masondo, University of KwaZulu-NatalRe-enacting “Destiny”: Masculinity and Afrikaner Identity in “Religious” Post-Apartheid South AfricaKennedy Owino, Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary/University of KwaZulu-Natal“Some LGBTIQs Are More Unequal than Others”: Determinants of LGBTIQ Marginality in South AfricaScott 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 AfricaMutale M. Kaunda, University of KwaZulu-NatalChammah J. Kaunda, University of South AfricaPART 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 GesangeboekChristo Lombaard, University of South AfricaRastafari 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-NatalOn Locating Islam and African Muslim Identity within Black/Africana Existential Thought: A PreviewTahir Fuzile Sitoto, University of KwaZulu-NatalUrban Immigrant Pentecostal Missiology: The Case of an Immigrant Zambian Pentecostal Pastor in South AfricaChammah J. Kaunda, University of South Africa Why Read the West? Messianicity and Canonicity within a Postcolonial, South African ContextJustin Sands, North-West University Potchefstroom