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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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Qwaqwa Campus women empowered
2009-08-19
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Four empowering workshops were recently held at the Qwaqwa Campus of the University of the Free State as part of the Women’s Week programme. These grooming sessions taught women about the steps on how to package themselves for maximum impact in the workplace, their responsibilities towards effective communication, good people skills, and their roles and responsibilities in their jobs. In total, 81 women attended these grooming sessions presented by Ms Lianne Smuts from 1st Solutions. At the workshops were, from the left: Ms Margy Motsei (Secretary: Student Affairs), Dr Elize Smuts (Staff Development Facilitator), Ms Smuts and Ms Esther Hlongwane (Secretary: Accommodation Services).
Photo: Dr EM Smuts |