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What is called xenophobia in South Africa is a consequence of neo-apartheid social relations and poses a major concern to all those preoccupied with Pan-Africanism and liberation and decolonisation politics. This book shows that what is called xenophobia, which in fact is intra-black racism practised by people of the same colour, is not a postcolonial aberration. Rather, it has its roots deep in colonial interstices. Thus, to understand this phenomenon it is theoretically and politically proper to comprehend the machinations of colonialism and how it produces certain kinds of subjectivities which endure into the postcolonial. It is also proper to understand the postcolony and contradictions and abnormalities engendered during colonialism which continue to persist. The continued particularisms like white anti-black racism, black-on-black-racism and tribalism demand a serious indictment of the postcolonial dispensation and show the pitfalls of decolonisation.
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Tafira, H.K. (2018). Postscript. In: Xenophobia in South Africa. African Histories and Modernities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67714-9_9
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