Something pernicious is spreading across our universities, seats of learning that are supposed to be bastions of free inquiry. Expressing dissent has never been more difficult as a sinister new creed ...

It is easy to blame government, but in order to receive something one must ask for it. When we call for decolonisation do we know what we are demanding? Too often we confuse different aspects of what ...

Arshad Nadeem's gold medal victory at the Paris Olympics 2024 provided a rare moment of collective joy as the country celebrated its 77th Independence Day. This festivity unfolded against a backdrop ...

Research Associate in Higher Education Policy and Planning, Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg When South African students launched the “Rhodes Must Fall” ...

Decolonisation has become a feature of academic life in many institutions of higher learning in North America and western Europe over the past few decades, and from the outset I would state that this ...

Shanade Bianca Barnabas received funding from the National Research Foundation during her PhD research. In 2015 the decolonisation debate, epitomised by the #RhodesMustFall campaign, took centre stage ...

The colonization of Africa was an extractive project driven by a lust for resources. The extraction was done with notable brutality in parts of central Africa and with a distinct lack of sentiment ...

Straying from its intended goal, the discourse around decolonisation devolved into a series of battlegrounds for the imposition of fresh hegemonies by the central government in the name of ...

Within the feminist movement, African feminism occupies a unique position that challenges disempowering constructs issuing from both Western and African paradigms. Contrary to the disinformation about ...

To date, decolonisation in UK higher education has been patchy, misunderstood and, in some cases, misused as institutions struggle to address the questions thrown up by it. Too often the conversation ...

The newly elected Albanese government has made initial steps to reset its relationship with France, ruptured by the AUKUS agreement and the cancellation of the $90 billion Naval Group submarine ...