G rateful as I am for the clarifications that John Guillory has brought to our decades-old disagreement over the relationship between scholarship and politics, there are “just one or two small points, ...

Antonio Gramsci was not a professional philosopher. His intellect was refreshingly situated within an inherent bias towards the common people, the ‘subaltern’ classes, particularly the working class.

“Africa’s problem is not that it is traditional; it is that it has failed to modernise its traditions.” – Ali A. Mazrui. Thirty years after the fall of apartheid, South Africa finds itself trapped in ...