AFRICAN LITERATURE AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORIES, reflecting on Ntongela Masilela's work

324pp., illus., paperback, HSRC Press, Cape Town, 2024

ISBN: 9780796926739

A collection of scholarly essays by South African intellectual historian and Marxist scholar Professor Ntongela Masilela (1948-2020). 

"Each essay is edited and introduced by the volume editor. They contain Masilela's most significant writings and illuminate the essence and breadth of his gifted mastery of scouring the archive to build intellectual connections between disciplines, epistemologies, epochs and historical figures. Through this craft he provided a theory of what he called the New Africa Movement - a breakthrough in the reading and rereading of South Africa and the diaspora's intellectual history." from the back cover

Busani Ngcaweni is Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, Research Fellow in World Economics at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Visiting Professor at the China Institute at Fudan University (Shanghai). He has worked as Director-General of the National School of Government since March 2020 and Deputy Director-General and Senior Policy Analyst in The Presidency since 2005. His books include Liberation Diaries Volume 2: Reflections on 30 years of democracy in South Africa; Nelson R. Mandela: Decolonial ethics of liberation and servant leadership (co-edited with S.J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni) and We Are No Longer at Ease: The struggle for #FeesMustFall (co-edited with W.M. Ngcaweni).