Postgraduates for Africa

21 May 2015

From Benin to Burundi, more than 1 400 students from 32 countries across Africa are pursuing postgraduate research at UCT this year. The vast majority of them are working towards solving African problems.

Curated by Natalie Simon.

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Monday Monthly

Volume 34 Edition 04

25 May 2015

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News

Postgraduates for Africa

Feature

Conversations in community

Editorial

What does decolonisation look like?

Shake the dust

Front page

How do we decolonise UCT?

Opinions

Are we under autocratic rule?

Decolonising knowledge 101

Push transformation forward

Unbundling the colonial university

Curriculum change the starting point for decolonisation

Take cultural perspectives into account

Knowledge must serve the interests of the majority

Linguistics: a study in decolonisation

Decolonisation essential for equality and justice

A vision for a three-year undergrad degree in African studies

Decolonise the mind

Africa must be enlightened for Africans by Africans

UCT for everybody

Shedding the colonial curriculum structure

Decolonisation is not unique to South Africa

Find the points of intersection

A decolonised curriculum has space for European discourse

Knowledge of the marginalised essential to curriculum

Universities enmeshed in the fabric of colonialism

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