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15 March 2022
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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The keynote speakers are Dr Khabele Motlosa (right), Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at NUL, and leading Pan-Africanist scholar Prof Molefi Kete Asante(left).
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Centre for Gender and Africa Studies (CGAS) at the University of the Free State (UFS), together with the
National University of Lesotho (NUL) and the Academic Forum for Development of Lesotho, is hosting an online think tank on the transnational communities of the Lesotho-South Africa border from 19 to 21 March 2021. The theme of the conference is
Lesotho and South Africa: a clarion call for a Pan-Africanist future.
Dr Munyaradzi Mushonga, Programme Director: Africa Studies Programme in CGAS, is the convenor of the conference and is also leading the UFS borderlands panel. The borderlands project is jointly funded by the Office of the Dean: Faculty of the Humanities at the UFS, and the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS).
For more information and to register for the conference, click here
UFS first-years write about their experiences in the USA
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Here are some of the students in conversation with Dr David Skorton, President of Cornell University.
Photos: Laurie Damiani, Cornell University
Some of the students in front of the Mandela Room at Binghamton University.
Photo: Rudi Buys |
The University of the Free State (UFS) recently sent the first ever group of 71 first-year students to the United States of America (USA) as part of the Student Leadership Development Programme. During their visit, they are experiencing student life and are learning about leadership and diversity at nine universities.
The students are writing diaries, which are posted on Mail & Guardian Online.
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