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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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Kovsie open day - 4 & 5 May
2006-05-03
03 May 2006
This year the Kovsie open day will be offered on the Main Campus of the University on 4 and 5 May 2006.
Visitors will be able to visit the exhibitions from 09h00 - 16h00 on Thursday 4 May or from 09h00 - 14h00 on Friday 5 May. All the faculties and support services will have manned information points in the Callie Human.
The exhibitions of residences and student societies will be located directly beside the Callie Human.
On both days OFM will offer exciting open-air broadcasts in front of the Callie Human from 12h00 - 14h00.
You are very welcome to contact Mrs Linda Greyling at 051 401 3384 from 08h00 to 13h00 in the mornings should you have any enquiries.