The Arrogance of Power
South Africa's Leadership Meltdown
Published on 1. September 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-624-07077-1 (ISBN)
Description
Dr Xolela Mangcu has earned a reputation as one of South Africa's most vibrant and engaging public voices. This new book is a collection of his columns written for local and international newspapers over the past fifteen years. Vivid, polemical and poignant, it records the initial excitement - and growing disillusionment - of a leading black intellectual about post-apartheid government, notably the administrations of Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, and the growing realisation that achieving real liberation in South Africa will require an even longer struggle than he had once believed.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Capetown
South Africa
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
407 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-624-07077-1 (9780624070771)
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Person
Dr Xolela Mangcu is an internationally respected analyst, author and commentator often quoted in South African media. Based at the University of Cape Town, he is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. Mangcu has written weekly columns for the Sunday Independent, Business Day and the Weekender, and is a guest analyst for the BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera. He has authored and co-authored eight books, the most recent the topselling Biko: A Biography, which was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award and the Recht Malan Award. The book was also published, to acclaim, in the US and the UK. The Sunday Times has called Mangcu 'possibly the most prolific public intellectual in South Africa'. Peter Vale, professor of humanities at the University of Johannesburg described him as 'the most interesting, certainly the most engaging voice amongst the new generation of public intellectuals in South Africa'.