ex (both aimed at material and symbolic practices), but it illustrated (in an empirical sense) how unlikely it was that radical change could occur in our "systems of thinking" in South Africa at the time of its publication. Venter showed — through this "limit-experience" — that to allow chance to play a role in the transformation of "govern-mentality" in South Africa was near impossible. The work posits chance as the only escape from a "system of thinking" which limits our ability to imagine alternatives to how we have come to think of ourselves as Africans. He did so by presenting President Mbeki's office with a leather bound, hand made copy of the artists' book — "I Ching for the 'African Renaissance' - and waits for a response. The soft cover (first edition) is out of print, but a digital version is available through the Internet Archive. An uncommon attribute of the publication is that it makes no claim to an Author. This strategy led both Wits University and the University of Johannesburg libraries to use derivatives of the publisher's name, as the author name, in order to classify the book.
- African Century
- African Renaissance Monument, Dakar, Senegal
- New Partnership for Africa's Development
- Thabo Mbeki. (08-05-1996) Statement on behalf of the African National Congress, on the occasion of the adoption by the Constitutional Assembly of "The Republic of South Africa Constitutional Bill 1996" Office of the President.
- Thabo Mbeki. (08-13-1998) The African Renaissance Statement Office of the Executive Deputy President.
- Malagapuru William, ed. African Renaissance, Mafube and Tafwelberg, Sandton and Cape Town, 1999 p. ii
- Washington A.J. Okumu, 2002, p. 157
- Okumu, 2002, p. 17
- Okumu, 2002 p. 267
- Okumu, 2002 p. 170
- Okumu, 2002 p. 12
- Okumu, 2002 pp. 7-8
- http://www.africanholocaust.net/news_ah/language%20new%20reality.htm#colonial Language for a new African Reality-Owen Alik Shahadah.
- Malegapuru William Makgoba, ed., African Renaissance, Mafube and Tafelberg, Sandton and Cape Town, 1999
- ---, I Ching for the 'African Renaissance', Nomadic Exploration Press, Johannesburg, 2006
- Washington A.J. Okumu, The African Renaissance, Africa World Press, Trenton, N.J. and Asmara, Eritrea, 2002, ISBN 1-59221-012-0, ISBN 1-59221-013-9 (pbk)
- Thabo Mbeki's I am an African speech
- Mbeki's 1998 speech outlining the African Renaissance
- AfricAvenir's collection of African Renaissance materials
- The "African Renaissance" at The Crossroads of Postcoloniality and Postmodernity
- I Ching for the 'African Renaissance' direct response to Mbeki's 1998 speech