05/06/2025
📚 Post-Reflection: Books, Power & Memory
Yesterday’s reflection still echoes through time.
> “These books are a beauty to read this June. I am also acutely aware of yesterday’s date, June 4th, the anniversary of Ghana’s 1979 June 4th Movement which brought Jerry John Rawlings to power. It was also on that very date in 1989 that pro-democracy activists were brutally crushed in Tiananmen Square, China. Rawlings would go on to become Ghana’s longest-serving leader, ruling for 19 years.”
- A shared reflection by Moleboheng Matli and Adetunji Omotola, 4 June 2025
This shelf now reads like a call to consciousness.
As South Africa moves toward commemorating the youth of 1976 this June 16th, the stories on this shelf offer a deeper lens. Not just into where we’ve come from, but what the youth of today must reckon with. These aren’t just books. They are blueprints, they are mirrors, they are maps. They hold the fire of the past and the fuel for the future.
From the radical rhythms of FELA: This Bitch of a Life to the policy punches of Reforming the Unreformable, this is literature that doesn’t whisper. It roars. It speaks to the youth, the builders, the changemakers of now.
📖 History doesn’t just live in pages. It lives in protest, in policy, in people who choose to remember.
> “This isn’t just reading. This is remembering, relearning, reclaiming.”
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