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Relevance and Commitment: Apprentices of Freedom
Nadine Gordimer writes this insightful paper on the key concepts of "relevance" and "commitment" in relation to black and white writers. She argues that black writers write from their communities and have daily lives which are embedded within relevant contexts. So too, their commitment to black liberation is innate. She suggests that white writers ought to break out of white value systems and a false consciousness to create relevant art and to openly admit that their experience as being white is of a different order to being black. These are the imperatives which both black and white writers face. The whole aim of art, in its attainment of truth and essence, requires the white writer to attain a true consciousness so that both black and white writers may work for the same end.
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Role of Culture in the Process of Liberation
Culture and liberation are intimately related. Life, according to the authors, is a process of struggle to reach higher levels of civilisation, a process in which art is deeply embedded. The struggle against Apartheid and different forms of colonial violence is one which is intertwined with culture and artistic expression. Even once equality is reached within society, a further cross-pollination of cultural ideas and forms will occur leading to a richer, popular and more universal culture.
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Role of the Black Writer in South African History
The black writer holds a key position in liberating South Africa. Richard Rive believes that black writers personalise individual experience and that this plays a role in showing what society was, what it is and what it is heading towards. Rive argues that black writers owe allegiance to their own writing, their society and to their humanity.
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Shades of Change ticket and flyer for Medu play with a portrait of Bochana Mokwena, artwork by Judy Seidman.
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Original solidarity file folder for Botswana orientation center, Gaborone, designed by Judy Seidman (Medu).
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What is a progressive song? In this paper entitled "Song and Struggle", Muff Andersson argues that musicians (primarily lyrical musicians) should write songs that "keep the cogs of the struggle moving on". This can be done through writing progressive songs or ensuring that a communities' consciousness is reflected in a song and its ideas.
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Southern African Cultural Workers Unite Against Apartheid
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A sticker by Thami Mnyele for culture and resistance festival , Gaborone, 1982.
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Southern African News Round-up
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Cover design for SANRU by Judy Seidman on behalf of Medu. Flyer published by Botswana Orientation Centre in Gaborone, Botswana.
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