Mandela – boundary 2

In Memoriam of Stuart McPhail Hall

Each crisis provides an opportunity to shift the direction of popular thinking instead of simply mirroring the right’s populist touch or pursuing short-term opportunism. The left…must adopt a more courageous, innovative, “educative” and path-breaking strategic approach if they are to gain ground.
–Stuart Hall and Alan O’Shea, “Common-sense Neoliberalism”

Summer 2014: Volume 41, Number 2

Intervention / Mandela’s Reflections

Editor’s Note from Paul Bové:
…We decided to gather responses to Mandela as a political figure. b2 issued a call for very brief papers from several spots on the globe and from different generations. Our contributors have given us reason to feel this attempt was a success.

Preface by Anthony Bogues

Mbu ya Ũrambu: Mbaara ya Cuito Cuanavale / The Cry of Hypocrisy: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Discomforts by Hortense Spillers

The Mandela Enigma by Wlad Godzich

Mandela, Charisma, and Compromise by Joe Cleary

Nelson Mandela on Nightline; or, How Palestine Matters by Colin Dayan

Or, The Whale by Jim Merod

Malaysian Mandela by Masturah Alatas

Mandela, Tunisia, and I by Mohamed-Salah Omri

Nelson Mandela by Ruth Y. Y. Hung

Mandela Memories: An African Prometheus by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Nelson Mandela: Decolonization, Apartheid, and the Politics of Moral Force by Anthony Bogues