In episode 8 of the Our Long Walk podcast, my co-host Jonathan Schoots and I speak with sociologist and historian Xolela Mangcu, Interim Director of Africana Studies at George Washington University. Xolela is the author of a major biography of Steve Biko and is currently writing a new biography of Nelson Mandela, due in late 2026. His core insistence is…
Are we suffering from a crisis of imagination?
SEASON 2, EPISODE 8: Xolela Mangcu on Mandela, Biko, the Bunga, and why South Africa needs a new politics of trust
Feb 03, 2026
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