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- Title
Jafta Masemola's Master Key: Experimental Notes on Azanian Aesthetic Theory.
- Authors
Joja, Athi Mongezeleli
- Abstract
Jafta Kgalabi Masemola is the longest serving (1963–1989) anti-apartheid political prisoner in South Africa's notorious Robben Island. Although Masemola is well known in the struggle narratives, not much has been written about him and his practices as a political organiser beyond biographical and anecdotal narratives. This article considers, with a certain degree of detail, an even more unthought aspect of Masemola's life, his creative productions; in particular, the aesthetic logic that underwrites the master key that he cloned from a bar of soap while jailed in Robben Island. Looking from the vantage point of aesthetic and critical discourse, the article attempts to open up new vistas and interests in Azanian cultural praxis.
- Subjects
ROBBEN Island (South Africa); SOUTH Africa; AESTHETIC experience; POLITICAL prisoners; AESTHETICS; APARTHEID; ISLANDS
- Publication
Theoria: A Journal of Social & Political Theory, 2021, Vol 68, Issue 168, p160
- ISSN
0040-5817
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/th.2021.6816808