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"""In 1973, Chabani Manganyi's essays raised provocative questions that spoke to the issues of the time, and to his own unique relationship to them. Such a questioning approach remains essential to exploring being human today. ""--Gerhard Mar�, professor emeritus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and author ""Declassified: Moving beyond the dead end of race in South Africa"" ""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, Johannesburg, and author ""Race Otherwise: Forging a new humanism for South Africa"""

In 1973, Chabani Manganyi's essays raised provocative questions that spoke to the issues of the time, and to his own unique relationship to them. Such a questioning approach remains essential to exploring being human today. --Gerhard Mare, professor emeritus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and author Declassified: Moving beyond the dead end of race in South Africa 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, Johannesburg, and author Race Otherwise: Forging a new humanism for South Africa

In 1973, Chabani Manganyi's essays raised provocative questions that spoke to the issues of the time, and to his own unique relationship to them. Such a questioning approach remains essential to exploring being human today. --Gerhard Mare, professor emeritus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and author Declassified: Moving beyond the dead end of race in South Africa 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, Johannesburg, and author Race Otherwise: Forging a new humanism for South Africa

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N. Chabani Manganyi is one of South Africa's most eminent intellectuals and an astute social and political observer. He has had a distinguished career in psychology, education and in government, and has written widely on subjects relating to ethno-psychiatry, autobiography, black artists and race.

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