Published 25 November 2025 in News
GRIP Seminar Series Hosts Dr Moshumee Dewoo: The Creole Communist Codebase of the South African Decolonial Turn
Durham University - School of Government and International Affairs (MHL427)
03 December 2025
16:00 - 17:00 (GMT+0)
The Creole Communist Codebase of the South African Decolonial Turn
Dr Moshumee Dewoo is a Mauritian-born African political historian specialising in feminist decolonial historiography of Global South resistance.
"Did anti-apartheid resistance open the door to liberal democracy in South Africa? Was liberal democracy ever its intended destination?
This talk answers both questions with a decisive no.
It shows that anti-apartheid resistance was never a liberal-democratic project but a Creole communist one. The post-1994 political landscape reflects continuity with that tradition."