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Articles by Ashanti Kunene
Ongoing civil war in SA acknowledged by no one | Cape Argus
Much has been written about the high levels of gender-based violence (GBV) and the brutally visceral manifestations of patriarchy in South Africa. The statistics indicate what has been referred to as an unacknowledged gender civil war. A rape survivor who reports incidents of sexual violence has a mere 8.6% chance of seeing the perpetrator convicted (and is most likely to be retraumatised by police and lawyers who will often treat her like the criminal).
We Cannot Afford To Have Leaders That Do Not Read
At the height of the #FeesMustFall protests in 2015, I remember attending a mass meeting on campus. The sun was blazing hot and we were sitting down in the middle of the street, listening to one of the most prominent student leaders give a speech about the essentiality of violence in the waging of protests. Said student leader quoted Fanon and his chapter on violence to back up his assertion, much to the applause of the students around me.
Let the African youth craft a different space for Africa on the world stage
Africa, for all her diversity, heritage and history has suffered under both colonial and home-grown masters and monsters. From the aspirational heydays of Nkrumah and Sankara; to the inhumane tragedies of Idi Amin; to the compromises of Mandela and Mbeki, African leadership has taken many different forms. What we can all agree on, however is that there is a severe leadership crisis in Africa, one that has existed since colonialism and its malicious legacy.
Africa Must Assert Itself in the Remaking of the World Order
analysis By Tim Murithi & Ashanti KuneneThe chaos that is now engulfing the world has a very Western origin. It would therefore be self-defeating for the rest of humanity to permit the self-same authors of chaos to frame the contours of a new global order. It is now time for the rest of the world to assert its right to remake the next international order.
Op-Ed: Africa must assert itself in the remaking of the world order
The chaos that is now engulfing the world has a very Western origin. It would therefore be self-defeating for the rest of humanity to permit the self-same authors of chaos to frame the contours of a new global order. It is now time for the rest of the world to assert its right to remake the next international order. By TIM MURITHI and ASHANTI KUNENE.
The Illusion of my South African Freedom
There are key events, watershed moments so to speak, that have occurred since 1994 that have, for those paying attention, irrevocably shattered the myth of the rainbow nation; that have exposed the cracks in this illusion we South Africans call freedom. April 27 is celebrated as Freedom Day in South Africa, where we celebrate our first “non-racial” democratic elections that took place in 1994.
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