Towards Overcoming the ‘Human Rights and Terrorism’ Quagmire of the Overdue Existence of Guantánamo Bay Detention Centre: Considering Es’kia Mphahlele’s ‘African Humanism’ Philosophy as part of Pursuit of Prospective Solutions 

Abstract

From the geographic location of the misleading social construct, presented as the post-colonial African State of South Africa, this paper will seek to explore prospective solutions in reference to the undesired existence of Guantánamo Bay Detention Centre, sited in Cuba. The proposed method to be herein utilized in this paper, is the ‘conceptual analysis’ method, as derived and explained in Johann Mouton’s text entitled ‘How to Succeed in your Master’s & Doctoral Studies (2012:175)’. The latter method is aimed to be employed, when considering Es’kia Mphahlele’s ‘African Humanism’ Philosophy and its possible insights, predominantly within this conference’s proposed sub-theme of ‘Human Rights and Terrorism’. The make-up of this paper, will be divided into three sections. The first section will ‘introduce and provide some background details, about Guantánamo Bay Detention Centre and Es’kia Mphahlele’s ‘African Humanism’ Philosophy, both for context purposes. Building upon the latter section, the second section will seek to both explore and interrogate some of the factors that command attention, e.g. how International Law ‘was’ and ‘continues’ to be abused by the United States of America (USA), as observed in the ‘Platt Amendment’ of 1901. Findings from the latter two sections, will be addressed in the third section of this paper, in order to guide towards an apt conclusion.

Keywords

Guantánamo Bay Detention Centre and Es’kia Mphahlele’s African Humanism Philosophy.

Bio

Dr. Tshepo Mvulane Moloi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the

Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study (JIAS) and a Research Assistant at the African Centre for Epistemology & Philosophy of Science (ACEPS), both of the latter are affiliates of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in South Africa. His also a Faculty Member at UNICAF University (Zambia Campus) and also Liverpool John Moore University (LJMU), in UK. His a freelance writer and part time political analyst, on NewsRoomAfrica (channel 405). His past posts within South Africa, amongst others include having been a Writing Consultant / Academic Literacies Facilitator at the Academic Development Centre (ADC) at UJ in 2020, Content Developer for the ‘Africana Thought’ module at the Centre for Advanced Technologies (CAT) in 2017-2018 at UJ, Political Analyst on African News Network 7 (ANN7) in 2015 & 2016. His a Sir Abe Bailey Fellow and Golden Key Alumni.