Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - BANNED MUSIC, No. 25: Stevie Wonder, “It’s Wrong (Apartheid)”

I agree with Gloria. I have a forthcoming piece in which one of my arguments is that the struggle against apartheid required black South Africans to become more "African," to embrace a divergent menu of pan-African solidarity. In other words, as the denizens of apartheid were trying to de-Africanize and "tribalize" them, black South African activists responded defiantly by moving in the opposite direction. Today, one could argue that some or many of them feel that, with apartheid defeated, they have reached a juncture when they no longer need the organizational, programmatic, and epistemological crutch of pan-Africanism, hence their support, tacit or declared, for Afrophobia.

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 7:42 AM Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com> wrote:

One of the useful organizational and inspirational tools  in the battle against apartheid was pan-Africanism. I suggest that the editors of the planned text "Xenophobia, Nativism ....."  should solicit a chapter on Pan-Africanism and the struggle against 

apartheid. That chapter may focus on the southern African frontline states and their sacrifices, and  their contributions in military and other means. West and Northern African roles in the  pan- Africanist endeavor should also be reflected on.

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On May 24, 2020, at 6:37 PM, 'O O' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:



My most hated word in Afrikaans. Indeed, an original "sin" against an original continent.

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On May 24, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:



In 1985, the South African government banned Stevie Wonder's song "It's Wrong (Apartheid)" because it explicitly condemned the government: "the wretchedness of Satan's wrath / will come to seize you at last / because even he frowns upon the deeds you are doing / and you know deep in your heart / you've no covenant with God / because he would never countenance people abusing."

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbG3zIs4Q4E

 

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