Andile Mngxitama of the BLF (left) and Julius Malema of the EFF (right) As of 2019 we know of two political parties (one of them being a major political entity) […]
For those readers unfamiliar, the EFF are the third largest political organization in South Africa. It is a troublesome organization, with its members often resorting to violence at perceived injustices. […]
If the story of their registration is true, BLF (Black First Land First) leader Andile Mngxitama, accompanied by a handful of supporters including BLF spokesperson Lindsay Maasdorp, registered at the […]
Mimetic Desire and Conflict Rene Gerard (1923-2015), a very influential French historian, philosopher, and literary critic, forwarded the concept of mimetics, the idea that what people desire derived from observing […]
Graham Ward, born 1955, is a theologian and Church of England priest who is the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University. He has formerly been the Chaplain, Fellow and […]
In The Communist Manifesto, German theorist Karl Marx (1818-1883), the father of Marxist theory, explained that history of society is a history of class struggles, a constant collision between the […]
The following conflicts and battles, all of which were led by the prophet Muhammad himself, are the major, important ones in the history of early Islam. They are important for […]
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was an English philosopher of science (considered the father of the scientific method) and essayist, sometimes credited as being the first in the tradition of British empiricism […]
In 628 AD, the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah was drawn up between Muhammad and the Quraysh tribe of Mecca (also the tribe of whom Muhammad was born into). The Quraysh were […]
This post is a follow on from our previous article The Importance of Engaging Hegemonic Masculinity in which we briefly looked at several reasons why it is important to think […]
