USA Africa Dialogue Series - Revealing the Power of Language and Developing Theory from Historical Artefacts

Dear Colleagues, 

I am pleased to share a podcast of a discussion on a piece that is forthcoming in an HSRC Press Collection that is Edited by Professor David Boucher of Cardiff University. The discussion was held at PowerFM, yesterday with the host of #PowerTalk (Lukhona Mnguni). In the discussion we reflect on Chapter 8 of this collection, my piece titled 'Revealing the Power of Language and Developing Theory from Historical Artefacts'. I, here, use music to think about the ways in which Blackness continued to theorise the Fact of Blackness, even as we were excluded from spaces of knowledge production - historically in South Africa. My analysis draws from a Literary Hermeneutics theoretical inclination (borrowing), which allows me to do the work of analysing the two pieces of music selected for the Chapter. This begins, in my humble view, to develop a contextually relevant philosophical methodology that contests the claim that 'we don't know where to start' when thinking about the demands of decolonisation in the discipline. 

Here is the link: https://omny.fm/shows/powertalk-archive/knowledge-bank-revealing-the-power-of-language

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