v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Walter Rodney (23 March 1942 – 13 June 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian, political activist and preeminent scholar, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980. Born into a working-class family, Walter Anthony Rodney was a very bright student, attending Queen's College in the then British Guiana (now Guyana), where

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4  Introduction The emergence of the post-1994 South Africa is characterised by processes aimed at shaping a 'new South African' consciousness that will give the South African nation an identity for the future. This process has entailed generally, the perpetuation of " images, stereotypes, silences and underlying ideologies" (Mesthrie; 1994;

South Africa's Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba, Mamma Africa, lived in enforced exile for 31 years. Since her return to South Africa in 1990 she has become known as an unstoppable great- grandmother. Miriam Makeba, also known as Mamma Africa was born in 1932 in South Africa. She was named Zenzifrom the expression “Uzenzile” (You only have yourself to