Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Michael Neocosmos is a Marxist political theorist and emeritus professor in humanities at the university currently known as Rhodes University.
New books by Sudhir Hazareesingh and Jean Casimir offer fresh ways to make sense of the huge significance of the Haitian revolution and its afterlives.
In this book edited by Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn, Johann Peter Salazar and Patrick Anderson, Michael Neocosmos considers Vladimir Lenin’s position on bureaucratic authority.
Ernest Wamba dia Wamba loved to laugh. He combined a lifelong commitment to emancipatory politics with a deep-seated African humanism.
In this second of a two-part series, Michael Neocosmos shows how the politics of liberation moved from being people-centred to becoming state-centred.
This first of a two-part series discusses how street committees, community-organised education and people’s courts challenged the state’s moral authority.
The Transnational Institute in conversation with Michael Neocosmos about power and emancipatory politics in Africa.