We Tweet What We Like: Steve Biko and Dr. Frances Cress Welsing| Lindiswa Jan

We Tweet What We Like: Steve Biko and Dr. Frances Cress Welsing| Lindiswa Jan Art and Humanities Institute. Black Consciousness: In 1970, Afrocentric African American psychiatrist, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, published her seminal essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy). Following after and on the footsteps of Algeria’s Frantz Fanon in blackContinue

The Black Madonna and Child: Africa’s Precious Jewels| Critical Reflections-Lindiswa Jan

The Black Madonna and Child: The Precious Jewels of Africa| From Critical Reflections to Lindiswa Jan Global Africans: Not many African people know that the American statue of liberty and the Senegalese statue of African renaissance are actually modelled from a historical fact about the African woman and child (The Black Madonna and Child). TheContinue

African Cultures and Modernisation, What Is Not Said| Lindiswa Jan

African Cultures and Modernisation, What Is Not Discussed| Lindiswa Jan As North Korea is facing pressure from its enemies and oppositions, not many people understand that culture is power. To have a culture is to have power over your identity and destiny. Nigeria is a culture-rich African country hence the attacks from Boko Haram. ItContinue

The Ancestral Land For Return| Lindiswa Jan

The Ancestral Land, For Return| Lindiswa Jan It is now common knowledge that the South African land was annexed and stolen from African people. It serves no purpose to twist or hide this truth. It should be returned and redistributed to Africans without compensation. There are many uses Africans need the land for. When ourContinue

Building Black Families, For Black Economies| Lindiswa Jan

Building Black Families, For Black Economies| Lindiswa Jan The family unit is the most important aspect of the economy. Advertisers sell their products to segments of the family –and others sell to the entire family. How family is structured and managed matters a lot. It is important to know who manages it. And children areContinue

From Granaries To Royalties, The Case Of Lesotho| Lindiswa Jan

From Royalties to Commoners, The Case Of Lesotho| Lindiswa Jan It has become common place to see the African desponded and running around calling for the government to provide certain services. To be a protestor is all that she knows. She is always stationed as though she is waiting for something. She is in transition,Continue

Enough Purging For The Day| Lindiswa Jan

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History Leaves Marks in Stones| Lindiswa Jan

In 2016 I visited my childhood home, the farm I was born and raised in, in the Karoo region of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It had been 20 years since I last set foot at the farm. My last departure there was in 1994, thereafter, my life and dreams at the farm faded outContinue

The Identical Politics of Black Womanhood in Three Colonies: South Africa, Australia and America| Lindiswa Jan

When I first watched the Rabbit-Proof Fence, in 2004, I never imagined that I will know about Nina Simone when I returned for my studies at the University of Cape Town. I was a young adult at the beginning of my early 20s. My dream was to be a Chartered Accountant and live happily everContinue