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The Centre for Gender and Africa Studies (CGAS) and the UFS will host an Africa Day Webinar on the topic, Reflections on Africa amidst Covid-19, to be delivered by Prof. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, renowned decolonial scholar. The title of his lecture is Revisiting the African idea of Africa during the moment of Covid-19 pandemic.
The crisis delivered by Coronavirus and Covid-19 invites Africans to rethink and even unthink the long-standing dependency on Europe and North America for help. What has dawned on Africa is the equally long-standing aspiration of self-reliance. What is emerging is a new African idea of Africa which takes responsibility for its own challenges. This new African idea of Africa challenges the Mudimbean idea of Africa embodied in the colonial library.
Thus this presentation reassesses how Africa has relied on its own historical experience, its own knowledge, and own people to confront Covid-19. What is of interest here is the proverbial wisdom of necessity being the source of invention. The presentation brings to the fore the decolonial turn as it gestures beyond crisis into post-Covid-19 world order. It ends with a call for decolonial love founded on new ethics of living together and new economies of care.
Bio of Prof Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatshen
Date: Tuesday, 26 May, 2020
Time: 14:00
Duration: 90 min max (45 min talk, 45 min Q&A)
The webinar can be accessed via one of the following links:
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Orientation session for short learning programme in service learning presented at the UFS
2008-12-01
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Lectures and other staff members from various South African universities recently attended an orientation session for the short learning programme in capacity building in service learning on the Main Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein. The programme will be presented next year by the Service Learning Division of the Centre for Higher Education Studies and Development (CHESD) at the UFS. Here are, from the left: Ms Za Sabela, University of Zululand, Dr John Boughey, University of Zululand, Ms Nombuso Kamolane, Vaal University of Technology, Dr Luzelle Naudé, Department of Psychology at the UFS, Prof. Mabel Erasmus, Head of the Division Service Learning at CHESD, and Dr Carl Kirstein, North-West University.
Photo: Lacea Loader |