“I think it is obvious, it has been obvious certainly to me for many years that without this intellectual input into the attempt to remake our continent, that we would fail, to remake it…I’m saying therefore that we have great need for progressive scholarship to  assist us to produce this progressive Africa that we need, to meet the challenges that the African continent faces …Let me just mention some of these challenges. For many many decades now, the continent has been saying that we have to address this matter of violence and instability on the continent… ” Thabo Mbeki, UNISA CHS 2014 Summerschool,  more at here