Josep Borrel’s depiction of Europe as a garden that must protect itself from jungle invaders reveals deeply entrenched feelings of superiority
Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata’s impressive African history book by non-historians
Five years after the first call for universities to decolonise, a new book examines what has changed at the level of the curriculum
A new exhibition, When Rain Clouds Gather: Black South African Women Artists, 1940-2000, held at the Norval Foundation, is a corrective to the previous systemic exclusion of Black women
bell hooks’s refusal to ‘get in formation’ foregrounded healing as the foundation to a communal liberatory agenda
Afrophobia is an imported anti-African sentiment that internalises colonialism because current state borders never existed in African societies
Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book, ‘Neither Settler nor Native’ asks a political question: Rights for whom?
Teacher training programmes need to cultivate a social consciousness to transform a system that abjects black learners
The fight for equality is valid but the burning down of our universities is not the revolution or decolonisation any of us should want
This comes after the university made headlines for allegedly failing to adhere to its own policies when it comes to employing staff
Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digitial essay game, ‘a sun.black’, keeps all options available as it examines decolonisation
George Euvrard spoke to Athandiwe Saba about his passion for education, clues on how to solve his crosswords and the importance of celebrating South Africa.
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Though it’s based in fact and measurement, science teaching needn’t only foreground individuals, but can situate itself in a web of knowledge and try to lower barriers to learning
Africans can lead the charge to decolonise the profit-driven biomedical system by challenging European and American claims to prioritised access to the Covid-19 vaccine
The #Black Lives Matter, #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements show that democracy cannot happen without decolonisation
Using assumptions and faulty tools leads to racist conclusions about why so few black students are taking up biological sciences
Without an accurate understanding of the dilemmas which overwhelm us, our efforts to produce effective and far-reaching strategies or solutions for change will fail
Collaborating with other universities will assist in dealing with diseases and other social issues that know no borders
Students at the former homeland universities battle with conditions created by poverty
South Africans have an uncaring stigmatising and marginalising culture and it keeps people on the fringes of society with diminished opportunities in life
The use of English in lectures can alienate and silence students because they feel inadequate
As efforts to repatriate Africa’s artefacts continue, a Zulu collective has hit upon a digital solution
Nelson Mandela University and the Nelson Mandela Foundation are collaborating to realise Madiba’s dream of building a new society
These transit points can move the decolonisation process forward by breaking down barriers
I recently edited a special issue for a journal on sexuality, capitalism and Africa. It was based on the topic that served as the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa’s 5th Annual International Conference, which took place in Johannesburg in June 2018. There are several reasons we chose this as our theme for a special […]
This is an edited extract of the introduction to ‘Revolutionary Thought in the 20th Century’ (1980) edited by late anti-apartheid stalwart Ben Turok
Decolonising museums requires more than knowledge exchange and lending back stolen artefacts
This can only be achieved by moving from the known to the unknown, the simple to the complex and the local to the global
A documentary film takes Fanon’s ideas out of the past and tracks the ways in which his ideas are resonating with today’s young across the globe
Fees must Fall has allowed us to imagine what a free and just society looks like, outside of colonial rule
UCT has called for proposals for new names for buildings at the institution, to be more reflective of those who have been “honourable” in history
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