BEING-BLACK-IN-THE-WORLD

156pp., paperback, New Edition, Johannesburg, (1973) 2019

Essays, written by clinical psychologist N. Chabani Manganyi in 1973, on what it meant to be black during the apartheid years. This new edition includes a foreword by Garth Stevens, an afterword by Njabulo Ndebele, and notes by Grahame Hayes

"This timely re-publication and thoughtful re-framing of Being-Black-in-the-World is a gift. It honours Chabani Manganyi’s seminal and historic contribution to understanding blackness as embodied and socially embedded, and to thinking about Black Consciousness as a politics of solidarity. It invites intergenerational conversations toward a decolonised world and pays homage to South Africa’s contribution to black radical thought. This text is a must-read." Zimitri Erasmus, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand and author of Race Otherwise: forging a new humanism for South Africa