Abstract On September 28 and 29, 1998, four years after the first democratic elections in South Africa which brought about the Government of National Unity (GNU) headed by Nelson Mandela, then president of the African National Congress (ANC) and the first African president in a post-apartheid South Africa, a conference dedicated to the African Renaissance was held at the Karos Indaba Hotel in Johannesburg. In 2019, twenty-one years after the convening of the African Renaissance conference, the vice-chancellor of the University of South Africa (Unisa), Prof. Mandla Makhanya, invited the author to his institution to reflect on the historic event. This reflection was a contribution to Prof. Makhanya's African Intellectuals Project (AIP), a platform provided by him to African intellectuals to reflect on the challenges that continue to confront Africans on the continent, and to suggest possible solutions. Prof. Makhanya saw fit that as one of convenors of the African Renaissance conference, the other two being Thaninga Shope and Thami Mazwai, I should reflect on the successes and failures of the African Renaissance project. In this article I reflect on the journey of the African Renaissance project, twenty-one years after the historical African Renaissance conference.

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二十一年后的非洲文艺复兴会议：批判性反思

摘要 1998 年 9 月 28 日至 29 日，在南非首次民主选举产生了由纳尔逊·曼德拉领导的民族团结政府（GNU）四年后，时任非洲人国民大会（ANC）主席和第一位非洲总统在种族隔离后的南非，在约翰内斯堡的 Karos Indaba 酒店举行了一场致力于非洲文艺复兴的会议。2019 年，在非洲文艺复兴会议召开 21 年后，南非大学（Unisa）副校长 Mandla Makhanya 教授邀请作者到他的机构反思这一历史性事件。这一反思是对 Makhanya 教授的非洲知识分子项目 (AIP) 的贡献，他为非洲知识分子提供了一个平台，以反思非洲大陆上非洲人继续面临的挑战，并提出可能的解决方案。Makhanya 教授认为，作为非洲文艺复兴会议的召集人之一，另外两位是 Thaninga Shope 和 Thami Mazwai，我应该反思非洲文艺复兴项目的成功和失败。在这篇文章中，我回顾了非洲文艺复兴项目的历程，即历史性的非洲文艺复兴会议 21 年后。