Radinaledi Patrick Mosiane
Title: Decoloniality in African Literature within a Colonialism of a Special Type (CST) discourse: A critique of the Source.
Radinaledi Patrick Mosiane is a senior public servant and development practitioner with the government of the Republic of South Africa, having qualified with a Master’s in Public and Development Management and multiple other qualifications with the University of the Witwatersrand.
He was born in Ikageng, Potchefstroom, in the former Western Transvaal, and was a member of the Congress of South African Student (COSAS) in the 1980s. Owing to detentions and constant police harassment, he left Potchefstroom and completed his matric with the Braamfontein-based Inter-Church Tuition Project of the Witwatersrand Council of Churches.
Radinaledi Patrick Mosiane is also an African Literature graduate with the University of the Witwatersrand and an Alumni of Johannesburg based Khanya College, jointly established by the SACC and the South African Catholic Bishops Conference. He is attached to the Potchefstroom-based Rutanang Book Club and the Tlokwe Heritage Institute, the latter being a non-profit organisation established for the preservation, documentation and interpretation of historical events, iconic personalities and cultural heritage of black people within the Tlokwe-Potchefstroom constabulary.
He has written two books, “Love and Hope in times of state capture” and “A Path to Personal Freedom”, both published in 2018). Whereas the latter is a motivational text, the former is an anthology consisting of almost 70 poems written and compiled over a period of time. He is still a member of the ANC, and occasionally writes and publishes commentaries on its draft policy documents and other government and development matters either for publication or private circulation.
His latest project, tentatively entitled “Speak On, Memory: A conversation with my brothers”, is at an advanced stage and include articles by veteran local activist, and will be published within the aegis of the Tlokwe Heritage Institute.
