Professor Mahmood Mamdani
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From US‘s carnage to Israel’s apocalypse
Across West Asia, they have sanctioned military campaigns, infusing ethnocide and genocide with an ideology that dehumanises the “Other” as an existential threat, unleashing…
SA adopting colonial categories of people drives racial divide
A past of ‘define and rule’ led to current tensions between coloured, black and Indian people
20 years after the ‘Mamdani affair’, the old adversary rejoins UCT
The academic who took on the university’s ‘bantu’ curriculum has returned, marking a ‘path towards decolonisation’
Burning varsities: Responding to fire
As by Fire’s hard look at the recent violence on campuses presents dire warnings and hope
28 years since the the unbanning of the ANC: what have we learned
As we remember the days in which apartheid was finally toppled, we must ask how we will, in 28 years’ time, remember South Africa as it is now
Post-colonial universities are trapped by their past
Mamdani looks at the history and ideologies that have shaped African universities and points to Afrikaans as an example of successful decolonisation