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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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Lecture at UFS focuses on language debate at the US
2007-05-18
Prof. Leopold Scholtz, Extraordinary professor in the Department of History at the University of Stellenbosch (US), was the speaker at this year's D.F. Malherbe memorial lecture. The lecture, entitled: Aan wie behoort dié universiteit? ‘n Analise van die taaldebat op Stellenbosch, was presented on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein. At the lecture were, from the left: Proff. Magda Fourie (Vice-Rector: Academic Planning), Gerhardt de Klerk (Dean: Faculty of The Humanities), Scholtz and Hennie van Coller (Head of the Department Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the UFS).
Photo: Stephen Collett
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