What a new university in Africa is doing to decolonise social sciences
It’s important to shift educational discourse in and around Africa in a more equitable, representative direction.
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Decolonisation involves more than simply turning back the clock
Decolonisation of the curriculum doesn’t have to mean the destruction of Western knowledge, but it’s decentring. Such knowledge should become one way of knowing rather than the only way.
Free education is possible if South Africa moves beyond smoke and mirrors
South Africa’s higher education minister has dealt with fee increments for 2017 but sidestepped students’ fundamental issue: an ongoing call to make higher education free for all.
How to take free public higher education from pipe dream to reality
Free public higher education is possible and necessary. It’s also realistic, if it’s based on thorough research, consultation and students giving back through community service after graduation.
Student protests in South Africa have pitted reform against revolution
Two narratives have emerged from student protests in South Africa: reform on the one hand - and revolution on the other. Which narrative will triumph?
What is RET and what does it want? The Radical Economic Transformation faction in South Africa explained
Despite its vagueness, the RET has become central to the contemporary ANC. It is destined to remain a powerful bloc within the party, and a constant constraint on Ramaphosa leadership.
Disagreement can become an act of love and reconciliation
South Africa needs to build a mental infrastructure that will allow people to individually and collectively engage in a bold, courageous and trutfhul dialogue.
Fees must fall – but not at the expense of quality higher education
South African students’ demands for free university education are not going away. Nor are the country’s economic realities.
Compendium of new research celebrates African solutions to national and global problems
Africa is now formally free of colonial rule. Yet, the aim of remembering and furthering the fight for self determination remains relevant as ever.
How racially divided South Africans can find their common humanity
If South Africans are to make the radical changes they must to become truly great, the new generation will have to find a way of understanding the country’s past in its profound complexity.
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