dc.contributor.author | Ndlovu, Morgan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-05-15T07:53:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-05-15T07:53:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ndlovu, M. 2013. Mobilising History for nation-building in South Africa: A decolonial perspective. Yesterday & today, 9:1-12, Jul. [http://www.sashtw.org.za/index2.htm] [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/5126] | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2223-0386 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10513 | |
dc.description.abstract | One of the greatest challenges facing people in the process of becoming South
Africans today is that of building a cohesive national identity out of diverse and
competing national, cultural and ethnic aspirations and identities that were never
imagined as belonging to a single nation-state. This challenge has been made worse
by the fact that the advent of the post-apartheid dispensation came with liberal
democratic values of diversity, tolerance and various forms of freedom such as those
of choice, association and speech. All of these freedoms have brought about an
impediment to the cultivation of the spirit of patriotism, common belonging and
unity among the peoples meant to become South Africans. While a number of
obstacles have been identified in the quest to develop a sense of common belonging
among the peoples who occupy the cartographic space known as South Africa today,
the question of knowledge production and its divisive role in the making of South
Africa has not yet been comprehensively addressed. This gap needs to be addressed
urgently with specific reference to the field of producing historical knowledge
because the manner in which historical events and narratives are imagined and
reconstructed in South Africa today has the potential to constrain and/or enhance
common belonging. This article is a decolonial epistemic perspective on the
production of historical knowledge in South Africa and it argues that a decolonised
historical narrative can possibly lead to the emergence of a cohesive South African
national identity. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University | en_US |
dc.subject | History | en_US |
dc.subject | Decoloniality | en_US |
dc.subject | Nation-building | en_US |
dc.subject | Eurocentricism | en_US |
dc.subject | Knowledge production | en_US |
dc.title | Mobilising History for nation-building in South Africa: A decolonial perspective. | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |