An Afrocentric Analysis of the Major Incongruities in Jacob Zuma Led ANC : Implications for Other African Nations

In this article, the author uses interdisciplinary critical discourse in its broadest form to analyse the state of then Jacob Zuma led African National Congress (ANC) as a liberation movement cum ruling political party in South Africa. In particular, the author employs Afrocentricity as an alternative contextual lens to identify and tease out the perceived major contradictions that characterised the Zuma led ANC. The central question grappled with in this article is: to determine whether the political and ideological contradictions as displayed by the differing views of the prominent ANC led tripartite alliance represents the emergence or continuity of the real or imagined contradictions in the governing ANC? It is argued in this article that the major contradictions espoused by the leadership of the ANC can best be understood when located within historicity and the context of the elective national conference of the party held in December 2017. Even though this article's historical sensibility forces it to briefly reflect on some of the key historical imperatives before the year 2009, its analysis is located within the Zuma's ANC/ South African presidency.