Black feminist writers in South Africa raise their voices in a new book
Undocumented for decades, black South African feminists are increasingly visible. The essays in Surfacing present 22 leading thinkers.
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How the failed ideals of 1970s activists haunt post‑apartheid South Africa
The egalitarian society envisioned by political activists and thinkers Rick Turner and Steve Biko has not been realised. But, they continue to inspire critiques of post-apartheid South Africa.
History is not a morality play: both sides on #RhodesMustFall debate should remember that
Why Oriel College Oxford was right not to agree to take down a statue of the British imperalist.
What medical ethics can teach us about the #Rhodesmustfall debate
If it’s ok to use research carried out in unethical experiments – as long as we acknowledge they were wrong – is it ok to keep a statue of an infamous imperialist?
South African students toppled Rhodes – but they can’t get rid of Zuma
South Africa’s president is direly unpopular and his government on the ropes – but protests against him are just empty symbolism.
Whiteness characterises higher education institutions – so why are we surprised by racism?
Student-led campaigns have been calling out racism in universities for years. After a shocking incident at Nottingham Trent University, perhaps we should start to listen.
School curriculum continues to whitewash Britain’s imperial past
We teach children about the birth and end of Empire, but miss out the violence of what happened in between.
Extent of institutional racism in British universities revealed through hidden stories
It’s time race equality was practised in the academy, not just preached.
Why activists are vandalizing statues to colonialism
The vandalism of colonial statues is an expression of political protest against the celebration of settler colonialism in Canada.
From Charlottesville to Nazi Germany, sometimes monuments have to fall
The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it’s better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
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