Arrogance of Power

Dr Xolela Mangcu is an internationally respected analyst, author and commentator often quoted in South African media. Based at the University of Cape Town, he is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. Mangcu has written weekly columns for the Sunday Independent, Business Day and the Weekender, and is a guest analyst for the BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera. He has authored and co-authored eight books, the most recent the topselling Biko: A Biography, which was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award and the Recht Malan Award. The book was also published, to acclaim, in the US and the UK. The Sunday Times has called Mangcu 'possibly the most prolific public intellectual in South Africa'. Peter Vale, professor of humanities at the University of Johannesburg described him as 'the most interesting, certainly the most engaging voice amongst the new generation of public intellectuals in South Africa'.