Colonisation, said Aimé Césaire, the anti-colonial Martiniquan poet and politician, equals “thingification”. To us this suggests that sexual thingification – including sexual entitlement, rape and femicide – equates sexual and gendered colonisation. What is needed to truly decolonise – that’s one question. In Decolonising the mind, the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o argued for African … Continue reading
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How is Africa situated in health and social science research and teaching?
This is a reminder and elaboration about the colloquium “Centring Africa in Health and Social Sciences Research and Teaching”. The main question for the colloquium is, “how is Africa situated in health and social science research and teaching?” The colloquium is staged in the light of, as an example, South African student demands for the … Continue reading