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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 Alumni honours alumni
2008-05-21
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Kovsie Alumni recently honoured its alumni for 2007 during a gala dinner held on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein. Juan Smith, member of the victorious World Cup Springbok team and captain of the 2007 Vodacom Free State Cheetahs Currie Cup winners, received the 2007 Kovsie Alumnus of the Year award. Dr Sherylle Calder and Dr Derick Coetzee both received the Kovsie Alumni Cum Laude Award for their role in the preparation and conditioning of the World Cup Springbok team. Prof. André Claassen was honoured with a Cum Laude Award for his contribution in the advancement of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology. Here are, from the left: Dr Coetzee, Dr Calder, Smith, and Prof. Claassen.
Photo: Stephen Collett |