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Africa’s universities must avoid collaborative programmes with the North that become mere tick-box exercises that only benefit Northern researchers and organisations.

Indigenous knowledge, African languages, queer rights and Afrofuturism are some of the issues discussed in the new book.

It’s time race equality was practised in the academy, not just preached.

South Africa’s universities are detached from society because of a waning public and civic sector that once fueled the anti-apartheid struggle. Here’s what can be done.

Student protests in South Africa saw triumph for the hashtag and success for the slogan. What lies beyond this as students push for genuine change in universities?

Many universities in East and West Africa lost their autonomy during the 1980s and 1990s and became handmaidens of the state. What insights can their experiences offer for South Africa?

Generational rebellion is an enduring feature of all societies. Indeed, it is the dynamic through which societies renew themselves and move forward.

In Senegal, schoolteachers who are personally religious must work in a secular space that marginalises religious discourse and knowledge. They have several ways of subverting the system.

Advertising often contains secondary messaging reflecting colonial-era thinking.

In her new book, Akinkugbe explores the way art history is taught, and the exclusion of blackness from mainstream art spaces.