Cet article examine le concept néo-Gramscien d'hégémonie en étudiant ce à quoi fait allusion l'auteur lorsqu'il se réfère à des couches multiples d'hégémonie qui existent et agissent les unes sur les autres. De plus, une analyse empirique du rôle du parti communiste sud-africain (PCSA) dans le paysage politique post-apartheid sera menée pour élucider les points thé...

The purpose of this article is to (re)introduce Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed to the study of contemporary African societies. Widely accepted as foundational work in the field of critical pedagogy, it is argued that Freirean scholarship and analysis is also useful in examining the top-down manner in which 'development' is currently being implemented on t...

This article examines the SACP and its role in contesting the hegemonic project of neoliberalism in the post-apartheid period (1994-2004). I discuss the Party's written attacks on neoliberalism, support for the Congress of South African Trade Union's (Cosatu's) campaigns against privatisation, the formation of the Young Communist League (YCL), and the current campa...