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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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VISTA students lay down ethical code
2006-11-20
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Almost 80 law students from the University of the Free State’s (UFS) Vista Campus laid down the Ethical Code of the Faculty of Law. During the ceremony were, from the left: Dimakatsho Molefe, Prof Johan Henning (Dean of the Faculty of Law), Gerson Bouwer and Elias Mantso; middle: Thabo Mphore, Thabang Kompi, Ms Shirley Hyland (lecturer at the UFS Department of Mercantile Law) and Dineo Qheku, back: Teboho Ntshewana, Kitso Mokhotsi and Patrick Maxaka. The students are members of the Juridical Society of the Vista Campus.
Photo: Supplied
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