[Marxism] Remembering Soweto; thinking of Nigeria

[Baba Aye]

It's thirty three years today since Hastings Ndlovu, Hector Pieterson and
twenty one other children were mowed down by the hat-filled bullets of the
apartheid state machine, in the South Western Township (Soweto) of Orlando,
which had produced the Mandelas, and Sisulus then in prison. Their crime was
refusing to be taught with what Desmond Tutu described as "the oppressors
language" in line with the Afrikaans Medium Decree of 1974. Over 500 persons
were to be shot dead or never to be seen again from the violence that rocked
the apartheid enclave for days after this. It was actually the beginning of
the end of the apartheid regime as within and outside the country the
visible "fire in Soweto, burning all my people" (as Okosun rightly sang)
became a clarion for action.

see more here:

http://www.nigerianmuse.com/articles/remembering-soweto-thinking-of-nigeria


-- 
Baba Aye

Global Labour University, Unicamp
solidarityandstruggle.blogspot.com
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