http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/2011/08/sbu-zikodes-presentation-at-fanon.html
S’bu Zikode’s Presentation at the Fanon Colloquium, Rhodes University, July 9, 2011
(rough transcription)
The idea that shack dwellers can think and that Abahlali can sustain its autonomy has created a crisis. There is a price to be paid for such thinking, for such autonomy.
The university is slowly opening spaces for grassroots organizations and some of us have fought hard for a relationship of equality between grassroots organizations and the university. We appreciate that Nigel Gibson has brought Fanon into conversation with us, with our struggle and our thinking. The conversation has been very rich and also difficult. We speak of Fanon from our own working environment. What hasn’t been covered in these 4 days is that Fanon was an activist, committed to daily work with people, talking with people.

