Archie Mafeje
Archibald Boyce Monwabisi Mafeje (30 March 1936 – 28 March 2007), commonly known as Archie Mafeje, was a South African scholar and activist. Born in the Eastern Cape, he got degrees from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Cambridge University.[1] He became a professor at universities in Europe, the Americas, and Africa, but spent most of his career away from apartheid South Africa after he was banned from teaching at UCT.[2][1][3] Mafeje was one of many anti-apartheid activists in exile. As an important Pan-African intellectual, he studied African history and anthropology and wrote about the anti-apartheid movement.[4][5] After he died, other scholars wrote books about his work.[6][7]
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.jpg) Mafeje in 1961 | |
| Born | Archibald Boyce Monwabisi Mafeje March 30, 1936 |
| Died | March 28, 2007 |
| Occupation | Activist, professor |
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Archie Mafeje and Hudson Matabese
Archie Mafeje (right) with Welsh Makanda on Adderley Street in Cape Town in 1961
On 15 August 1968, UCT's students descending to the Bremner Building after surrounding Jameson Hall (today's Sarah Baartman Hall)
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The leaders of the Mafeje affair sit-in in consultation. From left to right: Philip van der Merwe, Duncan Innes and Raphie Kaplinsky.
Passport photograph of Ruth First. Photograph taken from The Ruth First Papers Blog
Mafeje and Achille Mbembe (pictured in 2015) disagreed about the concept of Afro-pessimism
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ntsebeza, Lungisile. What Can We Learn from Archie Mafeje about the Road to Democracy in South Africa? (in en). Development and Change 47 (4) (2016). p. 918–936. doi:10.1111/dech.12244.
- ↑ The 1968 "Mafeje Affair" sit-in, 50 years on | Libraries Special Collections (in en). University of Cape Town Special Collections (2018-08-15). Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ↑ Hendricks, Fred. The Mafeje Affair: The University of Cape Town and Apartheid. African Studies 67 (3) (2008-12-01). p. 423–451. doi:10.1080/00020180802505061.
- ↑ Mafeje, Archie. South Africa: The Dynamics of a Beleaguered State. African Journal of Political Economy / Revue Africaine d'Economie Politique 1 (1) (1986). p. 95–119.
- ↑ Lekaba, Frank. Archie Mafeje: An unforgettable African intellectual giant | Pambazuka News. Pambazuka News (2016-03-15). Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ↑ Nyoka, Bongani. The Social and Political Thought of Archie Mafeje (in en) (2020-08-01)NYU Press. ISBN 978-1-77614-598-0.
- ↑ Nabudere, D. Wadada. Archie Mafeje: Scholar, Activist and Thinker (in en) (2011)African Books Collective. ISBN 978-0-7983-0286-9.