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Why and how we should talk about race We need a framework drawn from a constellation of contributions By Yacoob Abba Omar - 07 April 2021 The author believes there are several dimensions to the issue of race and privilege. Image: 123RF/ LIGHTWISE This article is not about former Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib and the use of the “N-word”. Pan-African thinking pioneer WEB du Bois declared in 1900 that “the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the colour line”. Twelve decades later the problem persists, and will persist until we have overcome the legacies of slavery, colonialism and apartheid. To understand why, we need to acknowledge the different dimensions of race. There is the historical, including the transatlantic slave trade initiated in 1526 by the Portuguese and the April 6 1652 landing of Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape, followed by the colonisation of most of the world by European powers.

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