Archie Mafeje
South African scholar-activist · Academics · Lived 1937 to 2007 · aged 69
Archibald Boyce Monwabisi Mafeje, commonly known as Archie Mafeje, was a South African anthropologist and activist. Born in what is now the Eastern Cape, he received degrees from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of Cambridge.
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Archie Mafeje and Hudson Matabese in the early 1950s during his years at Healdtown Comprehensive School
Archie Mafeje (right) with Welsh Makanda on Adderley Street in Cape Town in 1961
On 15 August 1968, UCT's students descending to the Bremner Building after surrounding Jameson Hall (today's Sarah Baartman Hall)
Archie Mafeje c. 1972![The leaders of the Mafeje affair sit-in in consultation. From left to right: Philip van der Merwe, Duncan Innes and Raphie Kaplinsky.[51]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Mafeje_affair.jpg/500px-Mafeje_affair.jpg)
The leaders of the Mafeje affair sit-in in consultation. From left to right: Philip van der Merwe, Duncan Innes and Raphie Kaplinsky.[51]
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Mafeje and Achille Mbembe (pictured in 2015) disagreed about the concept of Afro-pessimismAwards
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He became a professor at various universities in Europe, North America, and Africa. He spent most of his career away from apartheid South Africa after he was blocked from teaching at UCT in 1968.
