The Decolonial Thought

Blacks have yet to project with sufficient confidence, knowledge and authority their perspective of “being-black-in-the-world”.

[Landlesss @PhunyukaBamphet]

An Appreciation: The Uncompromising Fire of Prof. Lwazi Lushaba

To witness Prof. Lwazi Lushaba at the 16th Steve Biko Institutional Public Lecture was not to attend an academic presentation; it was to bear witness to an intellectual insurrection. It was a moment of unapologetic, decolonial clarity that shook the very foundations of the ivory tower.

Prof. Lushaba is not merely a "rebel academic." He is the embodiment of a revolutionary praxis that many in the complicit halls of South African tertiary institutions have long abandoned. He does not critique academia from within, hoping for a seat at its table. He sets the table ablaze, exposing its fundamental rot: its role as a factory for market-ready functionaries rather than a sanctuary for the liberation of the mind. His critique is a devastating indictment of an education system that has perfected the art of producing skilled labor for capital while starving the African soul of its own intellectual sustenance.

His appearance alone was a profound ideological statement. He arrived not in the costume of colonial respectability the suit and tie that signify conformity to a Westernized standard, but as a blue-collar worker. The bushy, unkempt hair and beard were not a matter of style; they were a declaration of war against the politics of respectability that has for too long policed the African intellectual. He stood as a living testament to the idea that knowledge is not the preserve of the well-groomed elite, but the rightful inheritance of the toiling masses. In him, the worker and the intellectual were one.

The audacity of his central thesis was breathtaking. To assert that there is only one philosophy in Azania, Black Consciousness is to perform a radical act of decolonial cartography. He did not argue for its inclusion in a pre-existing, Eurocentric canon. He declared it the canon. And then, with the defiant certainty of a prophet, he made the point that one will not find a philosopher in Azania other than Biko.

This was not an erasure of other thinkers, but a profound statement on the nature of true philosophy. For Lushaba, philosophy is not an abstract, esoteric game for the seminar room. It is a weapon of struggle. It is the systematic articulation of a people's quest for liberation. And in this land, it was Steve Biko who, par excellence, forged the philosophical blade of Black Consciousness. Why, Lushaba scornfully wonders, does academia waste its time trying to justify Biko as a philosopher? To ask for his credentials is to have already conceded to the very colonial logic that Biko sought to destroy. Biko's philosophy is not a thesis to be defended; it is the air we breathe, the struggle we wage.

In a world that demands our intellectuals be docile, market-friendly, and dressed for the part, Prof. Lushaba stands as a beacon of ungovernable thought. He disappointed those who expected a mannequin. What they got was a man. A rebel academic who did not just teach a lesson, but embodied it. He reminded us that the highest calling of the African intellectual is not to interpret the world, but to change it. And that change begins with the audacious, uncompromising, and beautiful act of reclaiming our own philosophy, on our own terms.

Amandla!

[Qhawe @Qhawe___L]

Politics will be death of Africans cos what different ideologies are you holding against being landless, dispossessed, discriminated, exploited, impoverished & marginalized as a people?

[Qhawe @Qhawe___L]

Imagine Chris Hani,Steve Biko,Onkgopotse Tiro & Robert Sobukwe screaming "On a point of order madam speaker" at the top of their lungs all day everyday in the national assembly.

It wasn't freedom that we attained in 1994, it was the death of its quest.

[Lerato Pillay 🇿🇦💎🇿🇦 @LeratoPillayZA]

Somebody wrote: 👇

Two months ago, FNB offered to move me from Private Clients to Private Wealth banking. I was agreeable. But they assigned me a White man as my new private banker and I was unwilling to accept that. I tried to engage the bank about keeping my current private banker, Naledi Moatlanegi, who is exceptionally brilliant and with whom I have developed a good relationship. The bank wasn't prepared to commit to this, and because I was unwilling to be allocated any other private banker, and especially not a White banker, I opted to not take the offer, to remain with Private Clients. When I was on the market for a house, I wanted a Black estate agent and was not disappointed when I found one in Felicia Mabizela. She was extraordinary in her work. For my relocation process, I hired a Black-owned moving company owned by Nicolain Shabangu and her husband Shaun. For the house maintenance work, I have hired Splash Africa, owned by Bonga Masoka. And for my furniture, I am buying from House of Amica, co-owned by Mojalefa Abuti Motalane and his fiance. I am also buying some from a Black manufacturer in Kya Sands.

I have taken the decision that as far as possible, I'm going to spend my money on Black-owned companies. And where the companies are White-owned and workers earn on commission, I want a Black agent. It is actually not morally justified for us as Black people in this country to not spent our money in Black businesses, and then turn around and speak of White monopoly. I don't see how we are going to ensure that Black businesses grow unless we actually invest in them. We must do so not with our politics only, but with our money too. And we must not apologise for it.

[Man’s NOT Barry Roux @AdvoBarryRoux]

You have heard, stop being isiphukuphuku.

[The Decolonial Thought @Manco22]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[The Decolonial Thought @Manco22]

@Nedbank @sangxa Can you also reverse an amount exceeding R500 on the Money app, i have a Clientele debit order of R552.

[Robert Sobukwe @Zimbiri5]

Jafta Masemola once said "I'd rather be a lean and unchained dog, than to be a fat chained dog"
he refused Botha and De Klerk's offer of indemnity in exchange to renounce violence he remained alone in Robben Island and sentence to life, he spent 29 years in prison.

[The Decolonial Thought @Manco22]

https://t.co/EVuDPzXt5h

[Dingane Xolani kamNywabe @dingane_Gatyeni]

I’m going to @azanianfire’s upcoming Space. Will you join too?
Do come through as we change the narrative as the Natives 15:00 namhlanje ❤️🖤💚
#BlackMarketPlace

[Africa rise☉☉ @ukuthulaekhaya]

Your freedom lies in understanding that spirituality,African spirituality is science not only limited to healers etc but its way of living in all worlds of Africans. Its deeper then what the English language can define.

[The Decolonial Thought @Manco22]

@MnqumaMunic1 Is this account still managed

[The Decolonial Thought @Manco22]

I hope they have African literature written in African Language, I once wrote to @BantuBookReview . Which publisher is consistent in promoting our languages by printing literature in our African Languages. Mother tongues are the carriers of ones culture.

[LenkaBula @LenkaBula]

GREAT NEWS🥂💻🥰😜 College of Accounting Sciences @Unisa has registered 13% improvements in ITC Exams (CAs) results🙏From 39% to 52% Nov 2021 @saica_ca_sa can attest to this Of 2002 People who passed ITC 1344= Unisa Students🥰Next Institution produced 354passes CONGRATULATIONS🙏

[Gqr Mjoli-Qubulashe-Nonina @Mag1do]

What if Prof Sobukwe’s wife had said to him:

Yewethu, abantabam abazulala betye inkululeko. Khoyeke indaba zenkululeko uyosebenza wondle abantwana aba? Or Bantubonke’s wife?

The importance of a vision and support.

We don’t honor these women enough…

[TSOGANG VUKANI AMKENI @Tsogang3]

1) I will not eat it unless it's by us.
2) I will not drive it if it's not by us.
3) I will not wear it if it's not by us.
4) I will not drink it if it's not by us.
5) I will not use it if it's not produced by my people.

This is what real, true economic leaders do. Not jokes.

[Africa rise☉☉ @ukuthulaekhaya]

8. Stop stealing from one another.
9. Stop fighting one another.
10. Stop killing one another.
11. Stop using and selling drugs to one another.
12. Stop throwing trash and dirt on the streets and in places where Black people live, work and learn